AWS Cloud TutorialLesson 10Free preview
AWS EC2 Pricing
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Summary
EC2 offers several payment models so that costs can be adjusted to workload patterns. On-Demand is suitable for uncertain loads, Reserved Instances and Savings Plans offer discounts for long-term use, while Spot Instances offer large discounts with the risk of recall. Understanding this model is important to optimizing cloud billing.
Key points
- On-Demand: pay per hour or per second without commitment
- Reserved Instances: 1 or 3 year commitment with discount
- Spot: big discount but instance can be stopped anytime
- Savings Plans offer the flexibility of compute cost commitments
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