====== Savings Plans ======

**What it is:** A discount model based on committing to a consistent spend ($/hour) for 1 or 3 years.

**What it’s for:**
  * Get discounts with more flexibility than some instance-specific reservations.

**Key ideas:**
  * You commit to a dollar amount per hour.
  * Applies across eligible compute usage (depending on plan type).
  * Useful when you may change instance families/sizes over time.

**Exam cues:**
  * “want discount but need flexibility to change instance types” → Savings Plans.

**Hard words:**
  * *consistent* /kənˈsɪstənt/: đều đặn/nhất quán
  * *eligible* /ˈelɪdʒəbl/: đủ điều kiện
  * *applies* /əˈplaɪz/: áp dụng