AWS Savings Plans Recommendations

Save up to 72% on AWS compute costs with Savings Plans. See personalized recommendations based on your actual usage.


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What Are AWS Savings Plans?

AWS Savings Plans offer significant discounts compared to On-Demand pricing in exchange for a commitment to a consistent amount of compute usage (measured in $/hour) over 1 or 3 years.


Unlike Reserved Instances, Savings Plans are flexible — they automatically apply to any instance family, size, OS, or region (depending on the plan type). This makes them easier to manage and more adaptable as your infrastructure changes.

Savings potential

Savings Plans can reduce your compute costs by up to 72% compared to On-Demand pricing, depending on the commitment term and payment option.

Types of Savings Plans

AWS offers two types of Savings Plans:


Compute Savings Plans

Any instance family, size, region, OS, or tenancy. Also applies to Fargate and Lambda.

Up to 66% savings

EC2 Instance Savings Plans

Specific instance family in a specific region. Any size, OS, or tenancy.

Up to 72% savings

How Server Scheduler Helps

Server Scheduler shows you Savings Plan recommendations based on your actual usage patterns, helping you understand:


  • 💰Estimated monthly savings — how much you could save each month
  • 💰Recommended hourly commitment — the $/hour commitment based on your usage
  • 💰Payment options — All Upfront, Partial Upfront, or No Upfront
  • 💰Term length — 1-year or 3-year commitment options

Combining Savings Plans With Scheduling

Pro tip: Maximum savings strategy

For the best results, use Savings Plans for your baseline compute needs (production workloads that run 24/7) and Server Scheduler to turn off non-production workloads during off-hours. This gives you the best of both worlds.

Here's how to think about it:


  • ✅ Production workloads — commit to Savings Plans for always-on infrastructure
  • ✅ Dev/staging environments — use scheduled start/stop to turn off outside business hours
  • ✅ Variable workloads — use scheduled resizes to scale up during peak hours only

How to Get Started

  1. 1
    Connect Your AWS Account

    Sign up and connect your AWS account. We need Cost Explorer access to fetch Savings Plan recommendations.

  2. 2
    Navigate to Cost Recommendations

    From your dashboard, go to AWS → Cost Recommendations → Savings Plans.

  3. 3
    Review Your Recommendations

    See personalized Savings Plan recommendations based on your actual usage patterns.

  4. 4
    Purchase in AWS Console

    Use the recommendations to purchase Savings Plans directly in the AWS Console.

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