Amazon ECS Pricing
Every Amazon ECS plan with its monthly and annual price, what it costs for common team sizes, and a calculator to estimate your own monthly cost before you buy.
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Plans and prices
| Plan | Monthly billing | Annual billing (per month) | Per user or flat | Users | Free tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ECS on EC2 (orchestration) | Free | Free | — | No limit listed | No |
| AWS Fargate | Contact sales | Contact sales | — | No limit listed | No |
| ECS Anywhere | Contact sales | Contact sales | — | No limit listed | No |
| ECS Managed Instances | Contact sales | Contact sales | — | No limit listed | No |
Prices last updated November 2026.
What each Amazon ECS plan includes
ECS on EC2 (orchestration)
- No ECS orchestration fee
- Full control over instance types
- Pay standard EC2, EBS and public IPv4 charges
AWS Fargate
- Fargate Spot up to 70% cheaper
- Compute Savings Plans discounts
- 20 GB of ephemeral storage included per task
- Serverless, billed per second with a one-minute minimum
ECS Anywhere
- $0.01025 per instance-hour
- Runs containers on on-premises servers
ECS Managed Instances
- Billed per second with a one-minute minimum
- EC2 price plus a management fee per instance that varies by type
What Amazon ECS costs by team size
| Team size | 1 user | 5 users | 10 users | 25 users | 50 users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | FreeECS on EC2 (orchestration) | FreeECS on EC2 (orchestration) | FreeECS on EC2 (orchestration) | FreeECS on EC2 (orchestration) | FreeECS on EC2 (orchestration) |
The plan that fits each team size, billed monthly, before add-ons and usage charges.
Usage pricing
| Metric | Plan | Included per month | Price after that |
|---|---|---|---|
| ECS Anywhere registered instance | ECS Anywhere | None | $0.0103 per instance-hour |
| Fargate ephemeral storage above 20 GB | AWS Fargate | 20 | $0 per GB-second |
| Fargate memory (Linux/Arm Graviton, us-east-1) | AWS Fargate | None | $0.00 per GB-second |
| Fargate memory (Linux/x86, us-east-1) | AWS Fargate | None | $0.00 per GB-second |
| Fargate vCPU (Linux/Arm Graviton, us-east-1) | AWS Fargate | None | $0.00 per vCPU-second |
| Fargate vCPU (Linux/x86, us-east-1) | AWS Fargate | None | $0.00 per vCPU-second |
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Cost breakdown
Estimated from the vendor's published prices, last updated November 2026. Actual costs may vary based on negotiated contracts. How we collect prices
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Amazon ECS pricing FAQs
Fargate bills per second, with a one-minute minimum, for the vCPU, memory and ephemeral storage a task requests, and the first 20 GB of storage is included. Arm-based Graviton tasks cost less, and Savings Plans or Fargate Spot reduce costs further.
Amazon ECS is free for 10 users on its ECS on EC2 (orchestration) plan.
Yes. Amazon ECS charges by usage for ECS Anywhere registered instance, Fargate ephemeral storage above 20 GB, Fargate memory (Linux/Arm Graviton, us-east-1) and 3 more, past what the plan includes.