
Making the Most of AWS Savings Plans Without Overcommitting
In 2025, AWS Savings Plans remain a primary cost optimization mechanism, offering up to 72% savings compared to On-Demand pricing. The challenge is not due to a lack of cost-saving potential, but the growing variation of cloud usage. Today’s infrastructure increasingly relies on temporary workloads, GenAI experimentation, containerized environments, and autoscaling patterns, all of which disrupt the predictability that Savings Plans rely on. This blog offers a structured approach to using Savings Plans effectively: identifying stable workloads, committing responsibly, and preserving flexibility where usage is less predictable.