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Can agree with that. 1 month vs 3 years. In fact we ourselves, have not been able to go for a reserved instance yet. Although have been thinking about it for a
by rehack 14y ago
Can agree with that. 1 month vs 3 years.
In fact we ourselves, have not been able to go for a reserved instance yet. Although have been thinking about it for an year or so. As there is always a likeliness of going to a bigger configuration in the near future (small->medium or medium->large etc.). So you are not sure if reserving is a good idea.
So you settle for the gains of the on-demand e.g. having more instances in the day
- sorenbs 14y agoReserved instances are not tied to a specific machine. If you buy say 5 reserved instances of a specific server type, you have a pool of servers that can run at a discount. IE if you decide your DB needs to go on a bigger box you can apply the reserved instance discount to some of your application servers or whatever.
- taligent 14y agoThey are tied to the availability zone though. Not a big deal if you are from the US but if you are from Australia for example then you wouldn't be able to take advantage of a Sydney availability zone if it become available (as it is rumored).
- rehack 14y agoYes, they are tied to a availability zone. Another thing I found confusing them is the choice of platform e.g. there is Linux and Linux VPC, after some searching I figured I should just choose Linux.
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