Posted On: Sep 8, 2024
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports Amazon Graviton-based compute with Amazon Fargate Spot in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. This capability helps you run fault-tolerant Arm-based applications with up to 70% discount compared to Fargate prices. Amazon Graviton processors are custom-built by Amazon Web Services to deliver the great price-performance for cloud workloads.
Amazon ECS with Amazon Fargate enables customers to deploy and build workloads at scale in a serverless manner. Customers can get better price-performance by running Arm-based workloads. Starting today, customers can further optimize for costs by running fault-tolerant Arm-based workloads on Amazon Fargate Spot. To get started, just configure your task definition just like you do today with cpu-architecture = ARM64 and choose FARGATE_SPOT as the capacity provider to run your Amazon ECS service or a standalone task. Amazon ECS will leverage spare Amazon Graviton-based compute capacity available in the Amazon Web Services cloud for running your service or task. You can now get the simplicity of serverless compute with familiar cost optimization levers of Spot capacity with Graviton-based compute.
This capability is now available for Amazon ECS tasks running on Amazon Fargate platform version 1.4.0 or higher. To learn more about usage and pricing of Amazon Fargate Spot, see Fargate Capacity Providers documentation and the Amazon Fargate pricing page.