AWS Lambda vs. ECS Fargate Compute Solver

Underwrite serverless event-driven architecture vs continuously running containerized microservices, memory GB-seconds, and cloud spend.

Workload & Invocation Profile

Monthly API / Worker Invocations

Average Execution Duration (Milliseconds - ms)

Allocated Memory (MB - e.g. 1,024 MB)

Equivalent Constant Fargate Tasks (0.5 vCPU / 1GB RAM)

AWS Lambda Monthly Bill

$210.00 / mo

AWS Fargate Monthly Bill

$146.00 / mo

Architectural Cost Winner

ECS Fargate is $64/mo Cheaper at this Scale