{"id":121,"date":"2016-01-07T00:39:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T19:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/?p=121"},"modified":"2016-01-07T00:41:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T19:11:50","slug":"amazon-ec2-purchasing-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/07\/amazon-ec2-purchasing-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon EC2 Purchasing Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Purchasing options for Amazon Ec2 Instances,<\/p>\n<p>1.<a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\/purchasing-options\/\" target=\"_blank\">On-Demand<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\/purchasing-options\/#reserved\">2.Reserved<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\/purchasing-options\/#spot\">3.Spot Instances<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also pay for <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\/purchasing-options\/#dedicated-hosts\">Dedicated Hosts<\/a> which provide you with EC2 instance capacity on physical servers dedicated for your use.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">1.On-Demand<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On-Demand Instances let you pay for compute capacity by the hour with no long-term commitments or upfront payments<\/p>\n<p>Recommended For:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Users that want the low cost and flexibility of Amazon EC2 without any up-front payment or long-term commitment<\/li>\n<li>Applications with short term, spiky, or unpredictable workloads that cannot be interrupted<\/li>\n<li>Applications being developed or tested on Amazon EC2 for the first time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2.Reserved Instances<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Reserved Instances provide you with a significant discount (up to 75%) compared to On-Demand Instance pricing.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended For:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Applications with steady state or predictable usage<\/li>\n<li>Applications that require reserved capacity<\/li>\n<li>Users able to make upfront payments to reduce their total computing costs even further<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">3.Spot Instances<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Spot Instances provide the ability for customers to purchase compute capacity with no upfront commitment and at hourly rates usually lower than the On-Demand rate. Spot Instances allow you to specify the maximum hourly price that you are willing to pay to run a particular instance type<\/p>\n<p>Recommended For:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Applications that have flexible start and end times<\/li>\n<li>Applications that are only feasible at very low compute prices<\/li>\n<li>Users with urgent computing needs for large amounts of additional capacity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dedicated Hosts<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dedicated Host is a physical EC2 server with instance capacity fully dedicated for your use. Dedicated Hosts can help you reduce costs by allowing you to use your existing server-bound software licenses, including Windows Server, SQL Server, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (subject to your license terms), and can also help you meet compliance requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Dedicated Hosts benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Save Money on Licensing Costs<\/b>: Dedicated Hosts can enable you to save money by using your own per-socket or per-core software licenses in Amazon EC2.<\/li>\n<li><b>Help Meet Compliance and Regulatory Requirements<\/b>: Dedicated Hosts allow you to place your instances in a VPC on a specific, physical server. This enables you to deploy instances using configurations that help address corporate compliance and regulatory requirements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purchasing options for Amazon Ec2 Instances, 1.On-Demand 2.Reserved 3.Spot Instances You can also pay for Dedicated Hosts which provide you with EC2 instance capacity on physical servers dedicated for your use. 1.On-Demand On-Demand Instances let you pay for compute capacity by the hour with no long-term commitments or upfront payments Recommended For: Users that want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33,34],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon-web-services","tag-amzon-ec2","tag-elastic-compute-cloud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.middlewareprimer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}