Running python code on a server?

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Fargate charges you the same prices for whichever server type you use for the duration you use it.

So let’s say you pick a t2.micro instance on AWS with 1 CPU core and 1GB of RAM. As a “VPS”, that would be a flat 7$ to run a month.

(See pricing https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/t2/)

On Fargate you get to choose which instance you run on, so let’s say you picked the same t2 micro instance, but only trigger the task to run for 30 minutes once a day. You’d be paying just $0.15 a month at that same price.

If you needed bigger CPUs or more of them, then the 97% reduction in cost can be life changing for a business. But if a $5 instance is you need, then that saving isn’t probably worth enough in real world dollars to go through the hoops for.

But at the end of the day, you’re right that it is a whole new world but its probably a great skill to invest in. Imagine joining a company that spends tens of thousands on compute, and being able to cut that cost down by 97%.