Pricing
Model
Description
On
Demand
Request when you want it. Flexible and Most Expensive.
Web app with spiky traffic. Unpredictable batch which cannot be interrupted.
Spot Cheapest (upto 90% off). Quote the maximum price. Terminated with 2 minute notice. Cost
sensitive, Fault tolerant, Non immediate workloads.
Reserved Reserve ahead of time. Upto 75% off. 1 or 3 years reservation.
Long Term Workloads. No Upfront or Partial Upfront or All Upfront Payments
Savings
Plans
Commit spending $X per hour on (EC2 or AWS Fargate or Lambda).
Upto 66% off. No restrictions. 1 or 3 years reservation.