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ECS Fargate Spot Protection

ECS Fargate Spot Protection helps optimize ECS workload costs by intelligently utilizing AWS Fargate Spot capacity while maintaining application availability and workload continuity.

Spot Protection continuously monitors Spot capacity and automatically manages workload balancing between Spot and On-Demand tasks to maximize savings with minimal operational effort.

Spot Protection Dashboard Overview​

The ECS Fargate dashboard provides a summarized view of Spot-enabled ECS workloads, savings opportunities, and usage insights across all monitored clusters.

Dashboard metrics include:

  • Total Clusters – Number of ECS clusters detected
  • Spot Enabled Services – Services currently utilizing Spot capacity
  • Total Spend – Forecasted ECS workload spend
  • Potential Savings – Estimated monthly savings opportunity
  • Savings Achieved – Savings realized through Spot utilization
ECS Fargate Spot Protection dashboard showing cluster coverage, spend, and savings metrics

Savings Insight​

The Savings Insight graph provides a daily cost and savings breakdown for ECS Spot workloads.

The graph tracks:

  • Savings Achieved
  • Spot Spend
  • On-Demand Spend

This helps monitor workload behavior, Spot utilization trends, and overall savings performance over time.

Savings Insight graph displaying Spot spend, On-Demand spend, and savings trends

Cluster-Level Details​

The cluster table provides visibility into ECS clusters currently monitored under Spot Protection.

Each row includes:

  • AWS Account ID
  • ECS Cluster Name
  • AWS Region
  • Potential Savings
  • Spot-enabled service coverage

Clusters can also be filtered region-wise using the Region dropdown.

Cluster-level ECS Spot Protection summary with savings and service coverage details

Service-Level Configuration​

Expanding a cluster displays all associated ECS services configured within the cluster.

Each service includes:

  • Service ID
  • Total Tasks
  • Spot and On-Demand task distribution
  • Potential Savings
  • Spot Protection enablement toggle

This allows selective Spot activation for individual ECS services.

Expanded ECS service view with Spot Protection enablement toggles and task distribution

How to Enable ECS Fargate Spot Protection​

Follow the steps below to activate Spot Protection for ECS Fargate workloads.

1. Configure Account Access​

Ensure the required permissions and account access levels are configured under:

Tuner → Accounts

This allows Spot Protection to manage ECS workload orchestration and Spot balancing.

Account access configuration for ECS Fargate Spot Protection

2. Open the Spot Protection Dashboard​

Navigate to:

Tuner → Spot Protection → ECS Fargate

Review the available ECS clusters and savings opportunities.

ECS Fargate Spot Protection dashboard overview

3. Enable Spot Protection for Services​

Expand a cluster and enable Spot Protection for the required ECS services using the toggle available in the service table.

ECS service-level Spot Protection enablement workflow

Once enabled, Spot Protection continuously monitors workload behavior and automatically manages Spot utilization to optimize ECS infrastructure costs.