How To Use Reserved AWS Instances in PMK
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EC2 Reserved Instances provide significant savings over On-Demand instances and as such can be a good choice for creating PMK Clusters.
Platform9 Managed Kubernetes
AWS Cloud Provider
Procedure
Reserved Instances are not a separate instance type in AWS, they are purchased as
Create a Cluster in PMK using the AWS Cloud Provider. You can follow the tutorial here.
You can then purchase Reserved Instances from the AWS console which matches the attributes of the Instances created via PMK.
The Instances created by PMK now will utilize the Reserved Instances Rate.
To purchase Reserved Instances follow the AWS guide here.
Info
We would encourage you to read the AWS documentation about Reserved Instances. As always please be mindful of your Cloud Provider costs.
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