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Using reserved instances in an Elastic Beanstalk Load Balancer

I am running an Elastic Beanstalk load-balanced application for a year now. I'm looking for ways to cut back on costs and have discovered I could potentially use reserved ec2 instances instead of the On-Demand instances we are currently using.…
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How do I upgrade from t2.micro to t2.small at the moment of expiration?

My AWS reserved instance t2.micro is going to expire. I decided to upgrade to t2.small, and have just bought a new reserved instance t2.small, as shown below. Now, how do I switch from t2.micro to t2.small?
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Are AWS ElastiCache Reserved instances size-flexible?

I am currently looking into purchasing a bunch of ElasiCache reserved instances. I know from EC2 and RDS, that it does not matter if you purchase e.g. a t3.medium or 2 t3.small instances, because the reserved instances are size-flexible Is this also…
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Add SSD storage to AWS EC2 reserved instance

I am new to AWS EC2 and I have just purchased a t3 medium reserved instance. I would like to add 100 GB of SSD storage to my instance and use it as the instance's primary hard disk. How can I do this? I did not see any option of adding and…
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CDK how to use reserved rds/ec2 instances?

i purchased a EC2 and a RDS reserved instance. how do i reference it in CDK. and if i wanna use the reserved instance for auto scaling group. is it possible? how do i reference to the reserved instance id in auto scaling group? const asg = new…
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How to choose the region/availability zone when buying an AWS Reserved Instance?

This is the page where I can buy a Reserved Instance: I can click Add to Cart, but then how do I know in which region/AZ is the RI?
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What's the difference between EC2 Reserved Instance Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC) and Linux/UNIX?

My instance is running on Linux (kubernetes deployed by kops). From the billing I saw they are classified as "Linux/UNIX", but I think it is deployed in VPC via kops. Now I want to buy reserved instance, and the choices of platform has…
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AWS API / SDK to query pricing plan

In AWS billing (bill file name is accountid-aws-billing-detailed-line-items-with-resources-and-tags-year-month.csv) there is a column "PricingPlanId", Is there any API or SDK support to query info related to the corresponding Pricing plan?
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Can I change the class of my Aurora RDS Reserved Instance?

Currently I have a db.r5.2xLarge RDS Reserved Instance (Aurora Postgres). I'm thinking about moving to db.r6g.2xLarge, if I do that will my reserved instance discount still apply? I looked up on AWS documentation but coudn't find a clear answer.
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Scaling up AWS Reserved Instances (EC2, Elasticache, Aurora)

REQUIREMENTS: I have 1 m5.xlarge EC2 instance. Time to time I scale up to m5.2xlarge over a short period of time, then I scale down to m5.xlarge. I do not scale horizontally so cannot go with more than 1 instance. Within 6 months I might increase a…
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AWS EC2 Reserved Instances

I currently have more than 10 EC2 instances with the same type (t2) and the same region (Ohio) and I am checking the best way to save in the monthly bill without losing performance. I've checked Reserved Instances (RI), but T2 is only available as…
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EC2 Reserved Instance Billing in Accounts with Dynamic Capacity

I have a fresh AWS account with Reserved Capacity of 15 EC2 instances of the same instance type in the same region primarily intended for EMR. If I spawn a EMR cluster with 10 instances for 15 days and scale it up to 20 instances for the remaining…
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Check AWS RDS reserved instance (shows no Region at the moment)

I lunched a reserved instance for RDS yesterday. I waited for the billing to be updated till today morning (it takes normally 6 hours to a day). Now when I go to the Billing the reserved instance and on-demand instance, both are active and being…
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Migrate Windows Server c3.large (old generation) to t3.large

I'm trying to migrate a Windows Server c3.large to t3.large. The first problem I faced is that t3 instances need to have ENA enabled where c3 doesn't. So I get through this documentation following all the steps to update all…
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EC2 Instance Storage: pricing and persistence

I have purchased an EC2 Reserved Instance. Its a t3large in some region, lets say r1. I want to install MySQL on this instance. Now when I create the EC2 instance (t3large in r1), I come to the Storage tab: 8GB is too small for this server, I want…
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