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Use AWS Reserved Instances for AIQ Infrastructure

Reserving and using an AWS Reserved Instance

In this document, I am going to show you how I reserved a t2.medium instance for a 12 month period. It cost us just $445/year. This is huge savings for the company!

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    Confirming Billing Report shows Reserved Instance Savings

    Now that you have reserved an instance, you want to make sure that it is indeed saving you money.

    It takes 4 Business days for the billing section to show the savings you got from your Reserved instance.

    Last updated: MarchOctober 25,6, 20242026

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