: How do I pay for the entire Reserved Instance with one upfront payment after AWS’s Free Tier My AWS's Free Tier is about to expire. How do I pay for the entire Reserved Instance with one

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These are questions you should be asking the AWS billing department. Contact info is found here.

EC2 Reserved Instances requires buying a time block on a certain instance, rather than going hour to hour with the on demand instances, with the selection of all upfront, partial upfront/partial monthly, or monthly billing. As you move towards monthly, the cost increases, but it's still cheaper than the on demand instances. You pay in advance for what you expect to use for a period of time. Otherwise the instances themselves are the same. EC2 instances do not include EBS, outside of the free tier. EC2 pricing (reserved and regular) is here.

Elastic Block Storage (EBS) is a separate product and doesn't appear to have upfront pricing. Pricing for that is over here.

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