For a company that is planning a partial migration to a serverless architecture in the next year and wants to pay for resources up front to optimize costs, the best AWS purchasing option is:
D. Compute Savings Plan
The other options are less suitable for this scenario:
A. Convertible Reserved Instances are a billing discount applied to specific EC2 instances and do not provide flexibility for serverless workloads.
B. Spot Instances are suitable for fault-tolerant and flexible workloads but do not offer the ability to pay upfront for a commitment period.
C. EC2 Instance Savings Plans provide discounts on EC2 instances only and do not extend to serverless services like Lambda or Fargate.
By choosing a Compute Savings Plan and paying upfront, the company can optimize costs for their current EC2 usage and seamlessly transition to serverless services as their migration progresses, without losing the committed savings. This flexibility aligns well with their planned partial migration to a serverless architecture.