AWS — Amazon EC2 Instance Purchasing Options

Ashish Patel
Awesome Cloud
Published in
3 min readMar 31, 2020

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Overview of AWS EC2 Instance Pricing models.

Amazon EC2

TL;DR:

  1. On-Demand Instances: short workload, predictable pricing.
  2. Reserved Instances: long workloads (≥ 1 year).
  3. Convertible Reserved Instances: long workloads with flexible instances.
  4. Scheduled Reserved Instances: launch within time…

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Ashish Patel
Awesome Cloud

Cloud Architect • 4x AWS Certified • 6x Azure Certified • 1x Kubernetes Certified • MCP • .NET • Terraform • DevOps • Blogger [https://bit.ly/iamashishpatel]