Managing container workloads on AWS can feel like a constant trade-off between performance and cost. On one hand, AWS Fargate Spot offers impressive savings; on the other, its sudden interruptions can disrupt applications at the worst possible moment. Teams often find themselves walking a tightrope trying to take advantage of lower compute costs without compromising the stability their systems depend on.
This whitepaper dives into how Smart Spotting solves that problem with a smarter orchestration approach that reacts instantly to Spot interruptions, launches Fargate On-Demand fallback tasks, and automatically returns workloads to Spot once capacity is restored. The framework uses an IaC-driven and event-driven architecture, built around Amazon EventBridge, AWS Lambda, and ECS capacity providers, to create a self-healing system that maintains uptime without manual intervention. Along with improving resilience, Smart Spotting helps teams unlock 50–70% cost savings on compute while ensuring production workloads remain stable. The whitepaper breaks down the full architecture and provides a practical path for building a cost-optimized, highly available AWS Fargate environment that scales efficiently and operates intelligently.
