Savings Plans
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- Kind
- Commitment
- Term
- One year (365 days) or three years (1,095 days); Database Savings Plans one-year term only per the FAQ.
- Aliases
- SP; Compute Savings Plans; EC2 Instance Savings Plans
- Definition
- Savings Plans User Guide: "Savings Plans provide savings beyond On-Demand rates in exchange for a commitment of using a specified amount of compute power (measured per hour) for a one or three year period."
- Commercial rules
- Four types: Compute (up to 66% off On-Demand; any family, size, Region, OS, tenancy, plus Fargate and Lambda), EC2 Instance (up to 72%; one instance family in one Region), Database (up to 35%), SageMaker AI (up to 64%). Payment All, Partial or No Upfront. Benefit shared across an AWS Organization by default. Noncancellable, nonrefundable and nontransferable (Service Terms 5.4.2), except returns of plans with an hourly commitment of $100 or less within 7 days in the same calendar month. Dedicated Instance regional fee not discounted.
- Applies to
- Amazon EC2 (including Dedicated Hosts and license-included Windows), AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, Amazon SageMaker AI, AWS database services.
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