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AWS::EC2::CapacityReservation

  • Pay to reserve instance types (e.g., m5.2xlarge) to always be available for you
  • Manual or planned end-date for the reservation
  • Capacity reservation is done per AZ

Reserved Instance

  • 1 year or 3 years reservation
  • Offering classes:
  • Reserved instance
  • Convertible Reserved Instance (changable type)
  • Scheduled Reserved Instance (schedulable provisioning)
  • Payment option: no upfront, partial upfront, all upfront (up to 75% discount)

Dedicated Instance

  • Also dedicated physical server
  • But the billing is still per instance
  • No access to the underlying hardware

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