Questions tagged [reserved-instances]
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ec2 reserved instance data transfer cost
What is the cost for data transfer out for AWS EC2 reserved instances?
This is clear for EC2 On-Demand instances and it is stated on the pricing page, but I can't find any information about data transfer-out costs for reserved instances. Anyone with…
Hadi
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How to calculate the year cost of an AWS reserved instance with partial upfront payment?
I'm not understanding how the partial upfront work for ec2 reserved instances. I'm trying to calculate how much the instance will cost on one year.
If, for example, I add an m4.xlarge instance reserved for one year with partial upfront on AWS…
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AWS reserved instance AZ matching Cloud Formation AZ
When purchasing reserved instance, I had to choose availability zone (1 out of 3). In our Cloud Formation template we don't specify availability zone (seems like a right thing to do in case one AZ goes down). So what happens when spawned EC2…
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EC2 Reserved Instances - Currently have micro what to do now?
I have been running with 2 micro on demand instances. I now want to convert one of the servers to a small instance. I have purchased a Windows small reserved instance in us-east-1b and it is now appearing under "reserved instances".
My micro…
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Switching between Reserved instance and convertible instance
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) …
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Can I still sell an AWS Reserved Instance if only paying for it monthly
I'm looking at purchasing a reserved instance to access a GPU on AWS. It's likely that a few month down the line i will need to migrate the workload elsewhere.
Can i still see the RI on the marketplace, even if i am only paying for it monthly with…
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How to find available "2nd hand" AWS EC2 instances in the Reserved Instance Marketplace?
I need an AWS EC2 instance constantly on for 1 month and I am looking at alternatives to the normal on-demand price.
There are articles out there describing how to choose a 2nd hand Reserved Instance in the Reserved Instance Marketplace…
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How to purchase a Reserved Instance to cover for an existing AWS EC2-VPC instance in eu-west-1
We have an EC2 t2.xlarge instance in eu-west-1 region, for which we wish to purchase a Reserved Instance (RI).
The EC2 reservations we had purchased previously in us-east-1, are of type "Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC)".
But for eu-west-1 it looks like…
Janaka Bandara
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AWS EC2 reserved instance with no upfront
I have purchased few 1 year no-upfront reserved instances, say 3x c4.large Windows instances, it cost $0.199 hourly each.
But now, I need only 1x c4.large instance, so there are 2 reserved instance wasted, how will AWS bill me these instances ?…
Rex Lam
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AWS Reserved Instance
I just bought a reserved EC2 instance. I can see it under the EC2 management console. But under the running instances i can't see any EC2 instance. How can i launch the reserved instance that i just bought ?
This is the running instances tab
Wassim Seifeddine
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