# Savings Plans and Reserved Instances

> My main lever on AWS cost. AWS margins are high; commitments bring them down.

- Verdict: My default
- Vendor: AWS
- Layer: [Accounts, identity and cost](https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/layers/accounts.md). Job: Cost
- Last reviewed: 18 October 2026, by Nicolas Dao (Cloudless Labs, Sydney)
- Web page: https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/aws-savings-plans/. The whole stack in one file: https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/brief.md

I love AWS and I hate its prices. Commitments are how I make them reasonable.

## Use it when

- Any steady baseline of compute or databases.

## Provisioning

No provider · No Terraform provider

Purchased in the console or API, not managed as infrastructure.

## Where it fits

- [An AWS foundation for a client](https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/use-cases/aws-foundation.md): pick 4. Commit once the baseline is known.

## Related

- [Accounts, identity and cost](https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/layers/accounts.md): every tool in this layer, with its verdict
- [The whole stack in one file](https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/brief.md): every use case and tool, for questions that span many
- [Map of every Markdown file on cloudlesslabs.com, with what each one answers](https://ask.cloudlesslabs.com)