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Compare Spot, Reserved (RIs), and Savings Plans.

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  • Spot Instances:
    • Discount: Up to 90% off standard pricing.
    • Risk: AWS can reclaim instances with a 2-minute warning.
    • Use Case: Stateless web applications, CI/CD runners, batch processing.
  • Reserved Instances (RIs):
    • Discount: Up to 72% off. Requires committing to a specific instance type/family in a region for 1 or 3 years.
    • Use Case: Database instances, baseline application instances.
  • Savings Plans:
    • Discount: Up to 72% off. A flexible commitment to spend a specific dollar amount per hour on compute ($/hr) for 1 or 3 years, applying across EC2, Fargate, and Lambda automatically.

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