A company has a steady-state workload running on EC2 instances. They want to commit to a 1-year term to reduce costs. They need the flexibility to change instance families (e.g., from m5 to c5) and operating systems during the term. Which TWO pricing models provide this flexibility? (Select TWO.)

Answer options:

Standard Reserved Instances

Convertible Reserved Instances

Compute Savings Plans

EC2 Instance Savings Plans

Spot Instances

How to approach this question

Identify the commitment models that allow changing instance families.

Full Answer

Compute Savings Plans, Convertible Reserved Instances

Convertible Reserved Instances allow you to exchange them for another Convertible RI with new attributes (family, OS). Compute Savings Plans provide the most flexibility, automatically applying across instance families, sizes, OS, and regions.

Common mistakes

Choosing EC2 Instance Savings Plans, which lock you into a specific instance family.

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