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How It Works
Usage Flex Savings Plan is a commitment product managed entirely by Usage AI. It covers three AWS compute services: EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud, AWS’s core virtual server service), Fargate (AWS’s serverless container engine), and Lambda (AWS’s function-as-a-service platform). Usage AI purchases the AWS Compute Savings Plan commitments on your behalf, monitors utilization daily, and adjusts coverage as your usage changes. Because Usage AI owns the commitments, your company carries zero financial risk. Setup requires billing-layer access only and takes approximately 30 minutes, with no infrastructure changes required.
All terms are 1-year only. There is no $0 upfront cost to your organization, and if any commitment goes underutilized, Usage AI provides cashback plus credits to cover the gap. See how Usage AI works.
Why It Matters for Cloud Cost
AWS on-demand compute is the largest line item on most cloud bills, and EC2, Fargate, and Lambda together represent the core of that spend. AWS Compute Savings Plans offer up to 66% off on-demand rates, but purchasing them manually requires forecasting future usage, accepting financial lock-in, and monitoring utilization continuously. Teams that skip or mismanage these commitments leave significant savings unrealized every month. The standard AWS Compute Savings Plan requires the buyer to absorb any waste if usage drops, which creates a financial risk that causes many finance and engineering teams to under-commit or avoid commitments entirely.
Usage Flex Savings Plan removes that risk. The guaranteed buyback on underutilization means your company captures savings from day one without the downside exposure that normally comes with a commitment purchase.
Key Characteristics
- Coverage spans EC2, Fargate, and Lambda, the three primary AWS compute services where Compute Savings Plan discounts apply.
- Savings range from 40 to 60% versus AWS on-demand rates, depending on instance type and usage profile.
- All commitments are on 1-year terms only, with $0 upfront cost to the customer.
- Cashback plus credits are guaranteed on any underutilization of commitments purchased through Usage AI.
- Usage AI owns the commitments, so the customer carries zero financial risk from coverage gaps or usage shifts.
How Usage AI Handles This
Usage Flex Savings Plan is delivered through Usage AI’s Autopilot mode, which purchases and adjusts commitments daily without requiring human approval, or through CoPilot mode, which surfaces projected savings for your team to review before any purchase is executed.
See how Usage AI saves 30 to 50% on AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Common Questions
1. What AWS services does Usage Flex Savings Plan cover?
Usage Flex Savings Plan covers EC2, Fargate, and Lambda. These are the three AWS compute services eligible for AWS Compute Savings Plan discounts. Other AWS services such as RDS and ElastiCache are covered by separate Usage AI products.
2. What happens if my AWS usage drops after commitments are purchased?
If any commitment purchased through Usage AI goes underutilized, Usage AI provides cashback plus credits to cover the shortfall. This guarantee means your company does not absorb the cost of unused commitments the way a standard self-managed Savings Plan would require.
3. Do I need to change my AWS infrastructure to use this product?
No infrastructure changes are required. Usage AI connects at the billing layer only, using read-only access to analyze your usage and purchase commitments on your behalf. Your existing workloads, autoscaling configurations, and deployment pipelines are unaffected.