Other Smart Purchase Options

Shop around

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.

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 ...