Questions tagged with AWS Savings Plans

I am using EC2 Saving Plans for 6 instances. In the bill, I see On Demand Linux Instance Hour (hrs) and usage covered by EC2 Instance Savings Plans (hrs). I wonder how I can calculate the usage covered by SP. For instance (on August): - Commitment: $0.42400/hour - $0.125 per On Demand Linux m4.large Instance Hour: 4,464.000 Hrs (= 6 x 24 x 31) - m4.large Linux instance usage in ap-southeast-1 covered by EC2 Instance Savings Plans: **4,393.599 Hrs** - SP rate: $0.07400 - On-Demand rate: $ 0.12500lg...

Let's say I have t3 family, and committed an EC2 Saving Plan with the upfront payment $5000/year. Now I have an one-month-term temporary instance needs to be in t3 family, should I request the commit rate change? or this temporary usage can be absorbed and amortized to my 1-year commit term without extra charge (assume the total usage is not passed the commit number)?lg...

Let's say I have 10 instances in a region, can I just commit 6 instances (2 t3-xlarge, 2 t3-small, 2 m5-xlarge) to EC2 Saving Plan 1-y term? How to type the commitment number in the field?lg...

As a CSP savings plan are bought at payee account level and shared with all individual sub-accounts we have two sub accounts where savings plan negation is greater than savings plan covered usage 1. 86678188xxxx Negation : -1485.4091014317987 Covered Usage : 1434.3921579783998 2. 87620327xxxx Negation : -8393.888197400727 Covered Usage : 7714.54739607721 I want to understand what is the reason for this behaviour? Because ideally sum of these two numbers should be zero.lg...

I am trying to understand how the commitment per hour calculation has been done for AWS Savings plan recommendation for past 30 days. There is no document on how to calculate it, how is the calculation done for leaving the on-demand spend? As per the below usage of the services mentioned in below table, AWS cost explorer is recommending below commitment... "You could save an estimated $315 monthly by purchasing the recommended Compute Savings Plan. Based on your past 30 days of usage, we recommend purchasing 1 Savings Plan with a total commitment of $1.390/hour for a 1-year term. With this commitment, we project that you could save an average of $0.43/hour - representing a 17% savings compared to On-Demand. To account for variable usage patterns, this recommendation maximizes your savings by leaving an average $0.65/hour of On-Demand spend. Recommendations require up to 24 hours to update after a purchase." So we came to a conclusion that we should spend 0.65/hour of On-demand and 1.390/hour of commitment? Please suggest and share how we can calculate all this information if I need to do that with a different set of data. | Service| Intance family| instance type| No. of instances| Region | On-demand Spend ($) | On-demand Usage | On-demand rate | SP rate | SP Spend | % discount | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | EC2 | t2| micro | 1 | US East (N. Virginia) | 8.352| 720| 0.0116 | 0.0078 | 5.616 | 33% | | EC2 | t2| nano | 1 | EU (Ireland) | 4.536 | 720 | 0.0063 | 0.0048 | 3.456 | 24% | | EC2 | t2 | micro | 6 | EU (Ireland) | 53.837658 | 4,272.83 | 0.0126000000 | 0.0095 | 40.591885 | 25% | | EC2 | t2 | large | 1 | EU (Ireland) | 72.576 | 720 | 0.1008 | 0.0761 | 54.792 | 25% | | EC2 | c6a | large | 1 | EU (Ireland) | 38.4495552| 468.44 | 0.08208 | 0.05854 | 27.4224776 | 29% | | EC2 | c4 | 4xlarge | 1 | EU (Ireland) | 421.73| 466 | 0.905 | 0.667 | 310.822 | 26% | | Fargate | | GB-Hours | | EU (Ireland) | 224.9872755| 50615.81 | 0.0044450000 | 0.0034671 | 175.4900749 | 22% | | Fargate | | vCPU-Hours | | EU (Ireland) | 916.9323152 | 22651.49 | 0.0404800000 | 0.0315744 | 715.2072059 | 22% | | Lambda | | EU-Lambda-GB-Second (Second) | | EU (Ireland) | 28.250059 | 1695000.15 | 0.0000166667 | 0.0000138 | 23.39100207 | 17% | | Lambda | | EU-Request (Requests) | | EU (Ireland) | 0.94 | 4688540 | .20 | .20 | 0.94 | 0% | | **Total **| | | | | 1770.590863 | | 1.363321667 | 1.0587953 | 1357.728645 | |lg...

Hi Team, Our customer has purchased $4 compute savings plan. When observed the savings plan coverage, it shows applied 67% for one instance type, 80% for another instance type, 79% for 3rd instance type. My understanding were, it should first cover 100% for one instance type (with max % savings) and then apply for other. But the above observation is confusion. Please someone clarify the doubt. Regards, Nikhil Shahlg...

We purchased the Savings Plans mistakenly and contacted customer support as soon as we saw the charge. What are the steps to process the refund? I don't see any option to cancel the plan. Happy to provide the created case Id. We are an early-stage company, and the charge is too expensive for us at this moment. Looking forward to hearing soon!lg...

Hi Guys, does anyone know if it's possible to share RI/SavingPlans between different AWS Organizations? (someone told me that it's possible but I can't get documentation on that) - I am pretty sure that is not possible but I want to be sure. Thanks in advance! :)lg...

Hi, I'm in Brazil and the only option to pay my bills here is with a credit card. I need to buy a savings plan, but I don't have enough credit to cover my bill + savings plan. Is there some sort of direct transfer? Regards.lg...

Hi there! On Dec 1st I submitted a purchase for a savings plan which should cover m5 family ec2 instance usage on us-east-1 region. I made the calculations to cover roughly what I was planning to use, but when looking at the billing details, it shows it only covered around %40 of the actual usage; but again, when looking at the saving plans usage, it shows only %54 of it was used. I couldn't figure out why all the usage wasn't being applied agaisnt the savings plan. The instance usage I intended to cover with this plan was a m5.2xlarge running Windows with SQL Enterprise. (The only m5 instance I'm actively using in this region) Unfortunatelly I can't post screenshots, but my m5 coverage report on us-east-1 region shows 44% coverage, but on the other hand my Saving plan utilization report shows only 54% usage. Thanks!!lg...

customer purchased savings plan by mistake, can they cancel it?lg...

Since I am new with AWS, I just come across Organizations in AWS, and just created new OUs and AWS Accounts. Initially, I have an EC2 and a Savings plan under one account since I don't know Organizations then. Now that my main account is the Management Account, I want the EC2 instance and the Savings plan to be transferred to the new AWS Account under a specific OU. This is so that I can easily manage and determine the costs per OU. Is this possible? And if not, will this work: * Savings Plan will stay in the Management Account (I can't recreate this one since the plan is already for 3 years); * EC2 will be deleted on the Management Account; * Recreate a new EC2 on the new AWS Account; * with Consolidated Billing, the Savings Plan in the Management Account will take account for the EC2 on the new AWS Account Let me know your thoughts on this.lg...