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		dagw on Oct 11, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS Costs Cheat Sheet Depends very much what you're using it for. I do a lot of ad-hoc data processing and use on-demand all the time.

calpaterson on Oct 13, 2012 [–]

If you do more than occasional processing, it's probably worth buying at least light utilisation reservation. Most people who use EC2 professionally (and who don't use spot instances) would or should be paying a reserve price

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