Amazon ECS now supports AWS Graviton-based Spot compute with AWS Fargate
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The article discusses Amazon ECS now supporting AWS Graviton-based Spot compute with AWS Fargate. This enables running fault-tolerant Arm-based applications at a discount of up to 70% compared to regular Fargate prices.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate allowing serverless deployment and scaling of workloads
- AWS Graviton processors being custom-built by AWS for better price-performance for cloud workloads
- Configuring task definitions with cpu-architecture = ARM64 and FARGATE_SPOT as the capacity provider to leverage AWS Graviton-based Spot capacity
- This capability being available in all commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions for Fargate platform version 1.4.0 or higher
- Links to documentation and pricing details for AWS Fargate Spot
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