This FAQ explains the most effective and practical ways to reduce Amazon EC2 costs without hurting application performance. It covers right sizing instances, using Savings Plans and Reserved Instances, shutting down idle resources, leveraging Auto Scaling and Spot Instances, and avoiding common EC2 cost mistakes that lead to overspending.

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