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Amazon Elastic Container Service
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon ECS orchestration | No additional charge for orchestration; pay for underlying compute and resources used. · Underlying compute and resource charges apply | Free |
| ECS Anywhere | $0.01025 per registered on-premises instance/hour; billed hourly with a one-hour minimum. · Per registered on-premises instance · Underlying resource charges may apply | $0.01 a month |
As aws.amazon.com lists them, read 28 Sept 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Facts from Amazon Elastic Container Service's own pages
- Application security
- AWS describes ECS security features including application isolation, granular container permissions, IAM roles, automated patching, and encryption in transit and at rest. · aws.amazon.com, 28 Sept 2026
- Compliance
- AWS says it supports 143 security standards and compliance certifications, including PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140-3, and NIST 800-171. · aws.amazon.com, 28 Sept 2026
- Container image repositories
- ECS can retrieve images from third-party hosted Docker repositories or accessible private registries, including Docker Hub and Amazon ECR. · aws.amazon.com, 28 Sept 2026
- Fargate storage
- Each Fargate task receives 20 GB of ephemeral storage at no additional charge; additional configured storage is billed, up to 200 GB. · aws.amazon.com, 28 Sept 2026
- Hybrid deployments
- ECS Anywhere lets customers manage on-premises container workloads using the ECS console and operator tools. · aws.amazon.com, 28 Sept 2026
- Intended users
- AWS says ECS serves teams running containerized workloads and describes customers ranging from startups and enterprises to nonprofits and governments. · aws.amazon.com, 28 Sept 2026
- Pricing limits
- Fargate usage is billed by requested vCPU, memory, and storage, rounded up to the nearest second, with a one-minute minimum charge. · aws.amazon.com, 28 Sept 2026
- Scaling
- ECS helps teams deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications without managing the orchestration control plane, nodes, or add-ons. · aws.amazon.com, 28 Sept 2026
- Serverless compute
- AWS Fargate is built into ECS and handles scaling and infrastructure management for containers launched with Fargate. · aws.amazon.com, 28 Sept 2026
- Support
- AWS lists support as a way to access proactive guidance, issue resolution, and support tools. · aws.amazon.com, 28 Sept 2026
- Supported containers
- ECS supports management of Windows containers and provides an ECS-optimized Windows Amazon Machine Image. · aws.amazon.com, 28 Sept 2026
- Threat detection
- ECS integrates with Amazon GuardDuty to help detect external threats to workloads. · aws.amazon.com, 28 Sept 2026
- What it does
- Amazon ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service for building, managing, and running containerized workloads. · aws.amazon.com, 28 Sept 2026
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