We translate your usage into that pattern, which now looks like:
From a Sustained Use perspective, we treat this as exactly as above - i.e. as if you had two VMs running for 30 days (100% of the month), one running for 25 days (83.3% of the month) and one running for five days (16.7% of the month) - and we give you the appropriate discounts automatically. This approach lets us give you the greatest possible discount for a given usage pattern.
What that means for you is:
No lock-in or upfront minimum fee commitments
Greater agility (both financial and technical)
No complex planning required
No up-front payments; when you factor in the time value of money, large upfront payments are not only a source of lock-in, but also a significant hidden cost.
Automatically benefit from price reductions when they happen, rather than being contractually obligated to paying a rate that might, over time, be higher than the market rate.
No risk associated with over- or under-estimating your usage over a multi-month or multi-year period
No penalty for changing instance shapes as your needs change
Upgrade to newer instance types that may be better suited to your workload whenever you like.
With Sustained Use discounts, we’re going back to the original promises of the cloud - higher agility, simple pricing and lower risk.
- Posted by Navneet Joneja, Senior Product Manager
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