Comment by NathanKP

AWS employee here. Just want to say that we actually had a typo in the per second pricing on launch. The actual pricing is:

    $0.0506 per CPU per hour
    $0.0127 per GB of memory per hour

Fargate is definitely more expensive than running and operating an EC2 instance yourself, but for many companies the amount that is saved by needing to spend less engineer time on devops will make it worth it right now, and as we iterate I expect this balance to continue to tip. AWS has dropped prices more than 60 times since we started out.