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I have a Standard reserved instance for almost 7 months now and planning to switch the Standard reserved to convertible RI, In the beginning i have signed up for 3 years contract, if i convert the standard RI to Convertible now (after 7 months) will my term will start over again from month 1 or will it continue from month 7.

Uday Sriramadas
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  • Are you sure you can change from standard to convertible RIs? Alternately you could sell your existing RI and moving to a savings plan. – Tim Feb 02 '22 at 20:39
  • i think i saw it somewhere, can we not convert the existing RI :/ – Uday Sriramadas Feb 02 '22 at 20:50
  • Go into the console and try it, just don't hit the "submit" button. RIs used to be quite inflexible, they've gotten more flexible over time but I'm not sure they're quite that flexible yet. I don't use them often so I may not be up to date – Tim Feb 03 '22 at 01:32
  • i did check and there is no way we can convert the existing Standard RI. – Uday Sriramadas Feb 04 '22 at 18:20

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You'll have to sell the reserved instances and then buy new convertible ones. You can modify some aspects of a reserved instance, but you can't go from a reserved instance to a convertible type without selling/rebuying.

See here for more info.

shearn89
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