[ECS Fargate] [request]: Request to increase maximum ephemeral storage size for Fargate tasks (beyond 200 GB)
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**Tell us about your request**
Please consider increasing the maximum ephemeral storage limit for **Fargate** tasks beyond the current 200 GB.
A higher limit - for example, up to 1TB, would greatly help workloads that need substantial temporary space during runtime.
**Which service(s) is this request for?**
Fargate
**Tell us about the problem you're trying to solve. What are you trying to do, and why is it hard?**
Some workloads process large temporary datasets, build intermediate files, or perform heavy I/O operations that require large but non-persistent storage.
For these cases, attaching EBS or EFS volumes is not ideal because:
We do not need persistence after the container stops.
We want storage that is automatically created and destroyed with the task.
Using EBS/EFS adds unnecessary management complexity and cost.
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Research direction
No repository file, test, or implementation entry point is named. Start by reviewing the Fargate 200 GB ephemeral-storage limit and the EBS/EFS alternatives described in the issue; done would require an AWS service decision or a documented increase to the task storage limit.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- aws
- Domain
- cloud
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100