This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.

In this episode you will learn:

- How to match the five main EC2 instance families (General Purpose, Compute Optimized, Memory Optimized, Storage Optimized, Accelerated Computing) to specific exam-based workload scenarios.

- The ideal use case for On-Demand pricing: short-term, spiky, or unpredictable workloads where flexibility is paramount.

- When to choose Reserved Instances for significant cost savings on applications with steady-state, predictable usage over a one or three-year term.

- The critical distinction of Spot Instances for fault-tolerant, interruptible workloads that can leverage discounts up to 90%.

- Why Savings Plans offer more flexibility than Reserved Instances by committing to a usage amount rather than a specific instance type.

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