Hey everyone! I'm curious if anyone knows when the reservations for the RDS r8g instances will be up for grabs. Our current reservations have expired, and from what I've seen in testing, the r8g offers a nice performance boost. However, switching to on-demand pricing represents a pretty significant cost increase for us. I've tried reaching out to support, but they haven't provided any information. Any insights or updates would be appreciated!
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I can’t say when the reservations will be available, but I do know that the r7g offered way smaller discounts than r6g. For instance, the no upfront costs for Aurora dropped from 35% to just 24%. You might want to balance those performance gains against the costs when deciding on an instance.
I’m not sure about the reservation timeline, but I switched from r6g12x to r8g8x and the performance has actually improved while keeping costs similar since I dropped the reservations. The gains were definitely noticeable!
Totally! We're moving from r6g to r8g as well, and the CPU reduction is so significant it's like we can downgrade our instance size. Gonna monitor it for a week or two with production traffic before making a final decision, but we’re hoping to snag those reservations soon too!
Exactly! That's partly why we didn’t go for r7g. With the performance boosts we're seeing from r8g, we feel the price bump is justified. For on-demand r8g, it's almost the same as r7g pricing, so hopefully, reservations will align closely too.