AWS Cloud TutorialLesson 77Free preview
AWS Pricing Concepts
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Summary
AWS offers several pricing models: On-Demand, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot Instances, and Dedicated Hosts with a compromise between flexibility and cost. Data storage also has a fee to be charged according to the service class, as well as data transfer out (egress). Choosing the right model for the pattern of use is key to cost-cutting.
Key points
- On-Demand: flexible, hourly or secondly pay without commitment
- Reserved Instances and Savings Plans: commitment of 1-3 years at large discounts
- Spot Instances: the largest discount but capacity withdrawal AWS
- Storage and data transfer costs separate from computing costs
- Prices may vary between regions
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