Amazon EC2 Dedicated Host pricing and billing
The price for a Dedicated Host varies by payment option.
Payment Options
On-Demand Dedicated Hosts
On-Demand billing is automatically activated when you allocate a Dedicated Host to your account.
The On-Demand price for a Dedicated Host varies by instance family and Region. You pay per
second (with a minimum of 60 seconds) for active Dedicated Host, regardless of the quantity or
the size of instances that you choose to launch on it. For
more information about On-Demand pricing, see Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts On-Demand
Pricing
You can release an On-Demand Dedicated Host at any time to stop accruing charges for it. For information about releasing a Dedicated Host, see Release an Amazon EC2 Dedicated Host.
Dedicated Host Reservations
Dedicated Host Reservations provide a billing discount compared to running On-Demand Dedicated Hosts. Reservations are available in three payment options:
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No Upfront—No Upfront Reservations provide you with a discount on your Dedicated Host usage over a term and do not require an upfront payment. Available in one-year and three-year terms. Only some instance families support the three-year term for No Upfront Reservations.
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Partial Upfront—A portion of the reservation must be paid upfront and the remaining hours in the term are billed at a discounted rate. Available in one-year and three-year terms.
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All Upfront—Provides the lowest effective price. Available in one-year and three-year terms and covers the entire cost of the term upfront, with no additional future charges.
You must have active Dedicated Hosts in your account before you can purchase reservations.
Each reservation can cover one or more hosts that support the same instance family
in a single Availability Zone. Reservations are applied to the instance family on
the host, not the instance size. If you have three Dedicated Hosts with different instances
sizes (m4.xlarge, m4.medium, and m4.large)
you can associate a single m4 reservation with all those Dedicated Hosts. The
instance family and Availability Zone of the reservation must match that of the
Dedicated Hosts you want to associate it with.
When a reservation is associated with a Dedicated Host, the Dedicated Host can't be released until the reservation's term is over.
For more information about reservation pricing, see Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts
Pricing
Savings Plans
Savings Plans are a flexible pricing model that offers significant savings over On-Demand Instances. With Savings Plans, you make a commitment to a consistent amount of usage, in USD per hour, for a term of one or three years. This provides you with the flexibility to use the Dedicated Hosts that best meet your needs and continue to save money, instead of making a commitment to a specific Dedicated Host. For more information, see the AWS Savings Plans User Guide.
Note
Savings Plans are not supported with u-6tb1.metal,
u-9tb1.metal, u-12tb1.metal,
u-18tb1.metal, and u-24tb1.metal Dedicated Hosts.
Pricing for Windows Server on Dedicated Hosts
Subject to Microsoft licensing terms, you can bring your existing Windows Server and SQL Server licenses to Dedicated Hosts. There is no additional charge for software usage if you choose to bring your own licenses.
In addition, you can also use Windows Server AMIs provided by Amazon to run the
latest versions of Windows Server on Dedicated Hosts. This is common for scenarios where you
have existing SQL Server licenses eligible to run on Dedicated Hosts, but need Windows Server
to run the SQL Server workload. Windows Server AMIs provided by Amazon are supported
on current generation instance types only. For more information, see Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts
Pricing
