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AWS Fargate

  • Timebilled
  • Bytesnot billed
  • Callsnot billed

In one line

Per-second billing on the vCPU and memory a task requests, not on what it uses.

What gets missed

The meter starts at docker pull, not when your app comes up, and there is a one-minute minimum per task. Windows tasks carry a per-vCPU OS licence charge and a five-minute minimum instead.

Find it on your bill

Filter Cost Explorer or your Cost and Usage Report by these usage types. A usage type with no region prefix means us-east-1.

  • Fargate-vCPU-Hours:perCPU
  • Fargate-GB-Hours
  • Fargate-EphemeralStorage-GB-Hours
  • Fargate-Windows-OS-Hours:perCPU

Bills the same way

These services turn exactly the same meters, so what you learn here transfers.