
AWS Fargate now supports configurable ephemeral storage up to 175 GiB per pod, enabling larger workloads like machine learning inference, media transcoding, and data processing on EKS.


<div><p>This article announces that AWS Fargate now supports configurable ephemeral storage up to 175 GiB per pod, enabling new workload types on the serverless compute platform.</p><ul><li>Ephemeral storage now configurable up to 175 GiB per EKS Fargate pod</li><li>Default 20 GiB ephemeral storage included; pay only for additional storage</li><li>Enables machine learning inference, media transcoding, ETL, and data processing workloads</li><li>AWS Fargate reserves 10% of storage plus 5 GiB for system components</li><li>Storage limits ignored on Fargate; pods won't be evicted for exceeding limits</li><li>Each pod runs on dedicated virtual machine with isolated storage, CPU, memory</li><li>Ephemeral storage usage visible via kubectl and node summary API</li></ul><p>This update expands AWS Fargate's capabilities for data-intensive workloads by providing significantly more ephemeral storage while maintaining serverless simplicity.</p></div>


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