How to get more value from your cloud commitments
If you are familiar with the cloud, you already know that the big hyperscalers offer a set of pricing models that provide varying levels of flexibility and discounts. The most common models are On-Demand (OD), Commitments—such as Reserved Instances (RI), Savings Plans (SP), Committed Use Discounts (CUD), and preemptive instances like spot instances/spot VMs.