Savings with flexible RIs for Amazon RDS

When Spec analyzed their AWS costs, RDS immediately stood out as their biggest expenditure. While continuously working to optimize their Amazon RDS usage, Spec employed Archera Guaranteed Reserved Instances to save without the underutilization risk that comes with one-year and three-year AWS Reserved Instances.

“We went straight down the list, top to bottom of, ‘what are we spending the most money on?’ when it comes to AWS. And the top line item for us, by far, is RDS. The first question is, ‘what can we do on RDS? Okay, great. Let’s go buy some Guaranteed Reserved Instances: that’ll save us 15–20% right off the top.’ I think we had to work together pretty closely to figure out the right number of RDS instances to reserve. It’s been pretty straightforward when it comes to the math and figuring out how much money we’re actually saving.”

Scott Tsuchiyama, Director of Engineering, Spec

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