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Before you commit to AWS Savings Plans, make 10 moves

The ten moves every cloud platform owner, CFO, and Chief Procurement Officer should make before committing to AWS Compute or EC2 Instance Savings Plans. Coverage targeting, term and payment option economics, Reserved Instance interaction.

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Read Time 20 Minutes
Last Updated August 29, 2025
What you will take away
  • How to build the baseline coverage analysis that anchors every Savings Plan commitment
  • The Compute, EC2 Instance, or SageMaker Savings Plan decision, with the cost math behind each path
  • How to choose between one year and three year terms and the no upfront, partial upfront, and all upfront payment options
  • Coverage discipline: the seventy to ninety percent target that captures discount without trapping unused commit
  • Discount benchmarks across Compute, EC2 Instance, and SageMaker Savings Plans, drawn from active engagements
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