Container and serverless comparisons

The container and serverless choices that move the bill, priced side by side: which platform is cheapest for a workload that runs all month, what the EKS control-plane fee costs next to ECS charging nothing, and where a Fargate task stops being cheaper than a Lambda function.

Where the work runs

EC2 vs Fargate vs EKS vs Lambda

One 2 vCPU / 4 GB workload, priced five ways in us-east-1

View comparison →Platform fee

ECS vs EKS platform fees

Both run containers on your EC2 instances. Only one charges for the control plane.

View comparison →Tasks or functions

Fargate vs Lambda

One bills per task-hour, the other per request. The break-even is how busy the code stays.

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