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AWS Fargate
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- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- emailno card, phone required
- Binding limit
- request-rateper second with a 1-minute minimum on Linux and 5 minutes on Windows; the container image pull is billed
- Evidence
- reported11 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-17checked 2026-11-02 (live); stale on 2026-11-17
| Free tier | not stated: https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/pricing/ prints no free tier and no credit for Fargate; it includes 20 GB of ephemeral storage for every task and pod by defaultunit none; metered on wall-clock; the USD 100 figure matches the AWS account-wide credit on https://aws.amazon.com/free/: a new AWS Free Tier account gets $100 in credits immediately, and up to $200 over 6 months on the Free plan |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate (binding) per second with a 1-minute minimum on Linux and 5 minutes on Windows; the container image pull is billed source
- retention-clamped Fargate has no persistent disk beyond the ephemeral task storage; a stopped task loses it source
part of the text of Free tier, above |
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| Identity | email an AWS account: an email address, or an existing Google, Apple, GitHub or Amazon login, quoted 'Create an account with a sign-in method you already have, such as Google or GitHub.' and 'Enter your email or choose a login such as Google, Apple, GitHub, or Amazon.'; no card for most new customers, quoted "No. A payment method isn't required to sign up for most new customers." and 'No credit card required to start for most new customers.', while the advanced sign-up states "You can't proceed with the sign-up process until you add a valid payment method."; a phone number in the advanced sign-up, quoted 'This number is used for identity verification purposes and to confirm the ownership of your account. You must be able to receive calls and SMS messages at this phone number.'; no country limit on signup, quoted 'The AWS Free Tier is available to all new customers.', and the credits and account plan selections are 'not available in the China (ZHY) and China (BJS) regions' and not in AWS GovCloud (US) |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown |
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| Tooling | part of the text of Free tier, above |
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| Composes with | part of the text of Free tier, above |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Evidence note | reported the Fargate pricing page states per-second billing with a 1-minute minimum (5 minutes for Windows) from the start of the image download, and prints no free tier or credit |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 11
More fields 7
| keep rate | 1.0 |
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| billing model | unclassified |
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| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "a task runs until it exits or is stopped; the billed floor is 1 minute, not a reap"} |
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| persistent storage | {"included_gib": 20,"price_gib_month": "ephemeral task storage only","durability": "ephemeral","survives_stop": false,"survives_destroy": false,"max_retention": "the task lifetime"} |
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| free tier kind | one-time-credit |
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| granularity | {"min_billed_s": 60,"rounding_s": null} |
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| burst x | 1.0 |
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Unknown values 10
- chaining: a source was read and is silent on this field
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- limits note: a source was read and is silent on this field
- per object cap stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field