A parks department pilot cannot yet predict steady monthly EC2 hours and refuses a one- or three-year commitment. Which pricing model should they start with?
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Short Explanation
When usage is a guess and nobody will sign a multi-year deal, start On-Demand. Pay for what you run, then move to Reserved Instances or Savings Plans once the pattern is steady.
Full Explanation
On-Demand pricing requires no upfront commitment and suits unpredictable or short-lived workloads. Reserved Instances and Savings Plans reward steady, committed usage with discounts. Buying a long-term reservation before patterns are known can waste money. Dedicated Hosts and Snowball Edge solve different problems and are not the default answer for flexible pilot compute pricing.