Cloud Bill Risks of AWS Reserved Instances and Savings Plans

4 years ago thenewstack.io

Summary: This is a summary of an article originally published by The New Stack. Read the full original article here →

CAST AI sponsored this post. Reserving capacity in advance is tricky if you don’t know how much resources your business will need next month.

To maximize your use of RIs, you need to have a clear understanding of what your team will need in advance.

When committing to specific resources or levels of usage, you need to assume that requirements won’t change while the contract is running.

In other words, you’ll be running the risk of vendor lock-in. Using the services of other providers like Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure isn’t going to make sense — after all, you’ve already paid so much for AWS services up front, so you need to use them.

DevOps Articles