A company runs an application across three AWS accounts.

The compute layer uses AWS Fargate, so the correct savings instrument is a Compute Savings Plan, not an EC2 Instance Savings Plan. AWS states that Compute Savings Plans automatically apply to EC2, Fargate, and Lambda usage, while EC2 Instance Savings Plans are restricted to EC2 instance usage in a selected family and Region. The database layer is Aurora MySQL, so a Reserved DB Instance is appropriate only for the predictable production database, not for development and testing databases that are regularly shut down. A 1-year commitment also matches the stated one-year predictable production demand. Buying 3-year commitments for all accounts would overcommit spend, especially for non-production environments with intermittent usage. Therefore, centralized 1-year production database reservations plus a 1-year Compute Savings Plan is the most cost-effective match.