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Dian Fay

It bears mentioning that reserved instances are now the old way of doing things on EC2, with the much more flexible savings plans meant to take their place. We looked into them a couple weeks back but concluded that our EC2 outlay was already low enough they wouldn't make much of a dent in it.

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Helen Anderson

Interesting! I saw the new Savings Plans announced and wondered what the real world impact would be. Thanks for sharing.

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Dylan Anthony

From what I’ve seen savings plans are a bit less efficient money-wise than reserved instances but much more flexible. Main pro is it works across all EC2 (and more importantly for me, ECS Fargate!!!) without having to specify instance type.