Reserved Instance
An AWS commitment to pay for a specific type of capacity, such as an instance family in a region, for one or three years in return for a discount on the hourly rate. It bills whether or not it is used. Why it matters: It saves a lot on steady workloads, but becomes waste if the workload changes.
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