Savings Plans, Spot, Dedicated Host, On demand, Private Pricing

Question 1

Savings Plans

Answer 1

The evolution of RI (same discounts), more flexibility, no configuration commitment or region, same 1Y or 3Y term.
Can be used with EC2, Fargate, Lambda

Question 2

Types of Savings Plans

Answer 2

Compute Savings Plans (flexible across Family, region, tenancy, OS) , EC2 Instance Plan (Deepest for specific instance on a region)

Question 3

On-Demand

Answer 3

For all AWS Services , no termination fees, pay as u use, better for spiky unpredictable workloads

Question 4

Spot

Answer 4

Gives the greater discount to EC2, but are just for non critical workloads, fault tolerant and flexible, they are reclaimed by AWS

Ex: Containers or microservices, Batch Job, BigData, HPC

Question 5

Dedicated Host

Answer 5

Physical host dedicated to u, it’s more use when u cannot share tenancy, great for licenses not supporting Multi-Tenancy, Can be purchased On-Demand or RI, U can BYOL

Question 6

Private Pricing

Answer 6

Custome to each customer, they apply when: The customer is ready to commit to AWS, have consolidated accounts, set up for invoicing, up-to-date payments, steady history usage, commit to Enterprise support.

Benefits: Increase savings

Options: Enterprise Discount, Single Service Rate Card, Volume Purchase agreement