Anyone with somewhat predictable load patterns who’s using the cloud and expects to stay around for a few years should switch to “reserved instances” to reduce

Anyone with somewhat predictable load patterns who’s using the cloud and expects to stay around for a few years should switch to “reserved instances” to reduce costs. It’d be a very poorly thought out implementation that doesn’t consider reserved instances. Reserved instances may or may not be competitive with other providers. But they’d check the CTO’s or CIO’s lists on “we’re on the cloud” and save some money.