AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

EC2 Purchasing Options

Compare the ways to pay for EC2 compute: On-Demand, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, and Dedicated Hosts, and learn which one fits which workload.

Beginner 16 minutes 4 Learning Objectives
  1. Describe On-Demand, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot Instances, and Dedicated Hosts
  2. Compare the commitment and discount level of each EC2 purchasing option
  3. Match a workload to the EC2 purchasing option that fits it best
  4. Distinguish Compute Savings Plans from EC2 Instance Savings Plans