Other Smart Purchase Options
Understand various AWS purchase options to reduce cloud expenses. Learn how regional pricing, Dedicated Hosts, and Dedicated Instances can impact costs. Discover Advance Pay for special financial needs. This lesson helps you select the best pricing models to align with your workload and organizational requirements.
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One thing that many people don’t realize is that the On-Demand pricing can vary from region to region. If our EC2 instances do not have to be located in one specific geography, we can save by moving them to other cheaper regions. Additionally, we can use CloudFront or Global Accelerator to prove localized caching to other regions if performance is a concern.
Here is an example of how pricing on the same instance can vary between regions.
Regional Comparison of Pricing
Instance Type | Operating System | us-west-2 (Oregon) | eu-west-1 (Ireland) | ap-southeast-2 (Sydney) |
t3.nano | Linux | $0.0098 | $0.0103 | $0.0112 |
m6i.xlarge | Windows | $0.376 | $0.398 | $0.424 |
x1.16large | SLES | $6.769 | $8.103 | $9.771 |
Dedicated Hosts
In cases when we might need a whole physical machine all to ourselves, we can use a Dedicated Host. This might be required for security or regulatory reasons, or if our software is licensed on a per core or per ...