Cost savings is a pretty important part of working with AWS, knowing your business plan helps you to plan in advance and take advantage of the reserve instances plan from AWS, In a previous post we were discussing the power of reserved instances for compute services and this case is not different, we will see an example on how a commitment can help to reduce your database expenses.

Although this is not the only way to reduce database costs it is a quick and efective way to achieve it, in a few steps you will be able to set it and the next day it will be running. To reserve your instances go to RDS > Reserved Instances > Purchase Reserverd DB Instance. This is an example of how the reserved instances look after purchase: