A company has a steady-state web application running on EC2 instances. They plan to migrate some of these instances to AWS Fargate in the next 6 months. They want to reduce compute costs now but need pricing flexibility to apply the discount to Fargate later. What should they purchase?

Answer options:

Standard Reserved Instances

Convertible Reserved Instances

Compute Savings Plans

EC2 Instance Savings Plans

How to approach this question

Look for 'pricing flexibility' across 'EC2 and Fargate'. Compute Savings Plans provide this.

Full Answer

C.Compute Savings Plans✓ Correct

Compute Savings Plans provide the most flexibility and help to reduce your costs by up to 66%. These plans automatically apply to EC2 instance usage regardless of instance family, size, AZ, region, OS or tenancy, and also apply to Fargate and Lambda usage.

Common mistakes

Selecting Convertible RIs, which only apply to EC2 instances.

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