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Re:OnMetal Performance In Early Benchmarks by adrr on Thursday July 24, 2014 @05:41PM (#8082438)
Whats the reasoning for using light utilization? Never seen it used in terms of cost saving strategy. Usually its medium vs heavy vs ondemand.
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Re:OnMetal Performance In Early Benchmarks by snewman on Thursday July 24, 2014 @11:01PM (#8083590)
Light utilization reserved instances IMHO is the best-kept secret in EC2. You get most of the savings of heavy utilization, with much less up-front commitment. Look at my figures above: light utilization costs only $98/month more than heavy utilization, for $3396 less up front. And those figures were for a three-year light utilization reservation, meaning I'd still have an asset at the end of the 12 months.
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