AWS: Investigate Saving Plans purchases

[ameukam]

we had multiple conversations about this.

We should take a look at saving plans for either AWS Compute in general or specifically EC2 instances family so we can potentially purchase them in early 2025.

Refs:

• https://aws.amazon.com/savingsplans/
• https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/CCK68P2Q2/p1706741926091069

cc @dims @BenTheElder @upodroid

/milestone v1.32
/area infra
/area infra/aws
/priority backlog
/lifecycle frozen

[ameukam]

cc @xmudrii

[ameukam]

cc @bryantbiggs @sftim
In case you are interested

[bryantbiggs]

I've pinged a few folks who are knowledgeable in this area (spot, compute savings plans, etc.)

[ameukam]

@bryantbiggs Thank you! I think we have time to have a long conversation (arm64 scheduling, mix nodepools, etc...) about this and ensure we can buy on Jan 2025 or sooner.

[ameukam]

I've pinged a few folks who are knowledgeable in this area (spot, compute savings plans, etc.)

Any feedback from your pings ?

[ameukam]

Feedback from AWS:

Unfortunately AWS Credits cannot be used to purchase Savings Plans. AWS Credits can be applied to many AWS services and pay-as-you-go pricing, but they cannot be used for Savings Plans purchases. Savings Plans require an upfront commitment and must be paid for with actual currency rather than credits.

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[k8s-ci-robot]

@ameukam: Closing this issue.

In response to this:

Feedback from AWS:

Unfortunately AWS Credits cannot be used to purchase Savings Plans. AWS Credits can be applied to many AWS services and pay-as-you-go pricing, but they cannot be used for Savings Plans purchases. Savings Plans require an upfront commitment and must be paid for with actual currency rather than credits.

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