A company has a steady-state workload running on EC2 instances. They want to commit to a 3-year term to reduce costs. However, they know they will need to change instance families (e.g., from M5 to C6g) and operating systems over the next 3 years.<br/><br/>Which pricing model provides the highest discount while allowing these changes?

Answer options:

Standard Reserved Instances

Convertible Reserved Instances

Compute Savings Plans

EC2 Instance Savings Plans

How to approach this question

Differentiate between the types of Savings Plans and Reserved Instances.

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

Choosing EC2 Instance Savings Plans, which lock you into a specific instance family.

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