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Saving by Committing - Introduction

AWS Commitments are a pricing model that can help reduce your bill by up to 72% in exchange for a 1- or 3-year commitment.
20 May 2026 by
Tony FinOps

AWS Commitments…

  • Are a pricing model that can help reduce your bill by up to 72% in exchange for a 1- or 3-year commitment.

  • Can be optimized by committing to a longer term (3 years), paying all upfront, and being specific in the definition of the services/resources covered.

  • Can be shared with a set of AWS accounts within the same organization.

  • Can be reviewed through AWS Billing in Savings and Commitments section.

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Commitment Types and Impacted Services

•Reserved Instances (RIs): RDS, EC2 (old way), Redshift, ElastiCache, OpenSearch, MemoryDB, DynamoDB.

•Savings Plans (SPs): EC2, Fargate, Lambda, SageMaker.

Saving by Committing - Introduction – Commitment Types and Impacted Services 

Example of Savings for a 3-year Compute Savings Plan.

Saving by Committing - Introduction – Commitment Types and Impacted Services

Database Savings Plans
A flexible pricing model that reduces your database costs by up to 35% compared to On-Demand prices