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In Amazon Web Services (AWS), the terms you've mentioned refer to different ways of optimizing and managing costs for computing resources:
Spot Requests:
Purpose: Spot Instances allow you to use spare EC2 capacity at a lower price compared to On-Demand Instances.
Usage: Useful for fault-tolerant and flexible applications that can handle interruptions, such as batch processing, data analysis, and simulations.
Savings Plans:
Purpose: Savings Plans provide significant savings over On-Demand pricing, in exchange for a commitment to a consistent amount of usage (measured in $/hr) for a 1 or 3-year period.
Usage: Offers flexibility across EC2 and Lambda usage in a region, providing a discount compared to On-Demand pricing.
Reserved Instances:
Purpose: Reserved Instances (RIs) allow you to reserve EC2 capacity for a 1 or 3-year term, providing significant savings over On-Demand pricing.
Usage: Suitable for applications with steady-state or predictable usage, providing cost savings for committed usage.
Dedicated Hosts:
Purpose: Dedicated Hosts allow you to have physical servers dedicated for your use, which can help meet specific compliance and regulatory requirements.
Usage: Ideal for scenarios where you need to run instances on physical servers with a consistent instance placement strategy.
Capacity Reservations:
Purpose: Capacity Reservations allow you to reserve capacity for your EC2 instances in a specific Availability Zone, providing confidence in your ability to launch instances when needed.
Usage: Useful for ensuring capacity availability for specific instance types in a particular region and Availability Zone.
These options provide AWS customers with flexibility and cost savings based on their specific application requirements and usage patterns. The choice of which to use depends on factors such as flexibility, commitment, and the nature of the workload.