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Reserve instance when running less than 24 hours a day

I would like to know the best solution. I have an instance of t3.medium type running 6 hours a day. Does it make sense for me to buy t3.nano type reserved instance, if so, how many instances? Or does it not pay to buy a reserved instance?
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AWS consolidated billing on reserved instances

My AWS infrastructure is part of consolidated billing provided by our client company. There may be other accounts for different companies and are part of consolidated billing. So, when I reserve an instance, do all other accounts within the…
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Solution to get the informations about Amazon EC2 OnDemand and Reserved instance?

I need to implement a solution to get the Amazon instance hourly cost for each pricing model (on-demand, reserved, spot instance with predefined duration and spot instance with non-predefined duration). I have downloaded the file from AWS Price…
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Reserved Instances with scope Region

I am querying Reserved Instances using Amazon's Java SDK. I am getting all reserved Reserved Instances except the one with scope as "Region". I have raised an issue on Amazon's Java SDK code. After analysis it is found that Amazon service itself is…
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Getting already utilized AWS Reserved Instances in AWS?

I am currently running the following query aws ec2 describe-reserved-instances \ --filters "Name=state,Values=active" \ --query…
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Where can the AWS Convertible Reserved Instance ExchangeId be used?

When you make an AWS Convertible Reserved Instance Exchange request, you are provided with an ExchangeId. However, the documentation does not mention whether this ID is the same as the new CRI ID, or where the ExchangeId can be used. Is the…
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Why get-reserved-instances-exchange-quote API receive a list of TargetConfigurations?

The Exchange API from AWS EC2 receives an array of TargetConfiguration as described in the official documentation: API_GetReservedInstancesExchangeQuote. However, it is not clear the purpose of this due the criteria and rules to apply an exchange…
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How does AWS know to apply reserved instances price to the EC2 running 24/7 and not part time?

Our organization has many EC2 on-demand instances. We never looked at the reserved instance pricing because we thought we had to pay up-front. But I see that now there are reserved instance with no up-front costs, but monthly. This looks like what…
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Is normalization factor applicable to AWS EC2 Windows Reserved instaces?

Normlization factor is explained on this page - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/apply_ri.html Just adding example from above page for clarity,"t2.medium instance has a normalization factor of 2. If you purchase a t2.medium…
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AWS Reserved RDS Billing Status

Hey quick question related to aws reserved rds. Just need to know that in order for reserved plan to work, do we need to create rds instance or cluster [as new resource] after we purchase the plan or it can work if we have rds instance running…
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AWS RDS Reserved billing charges

Hey I just want to know info about the reserved rds instance. Suppose one purchase an reserve rds plan for an year with no up front payment method. And there is no rds instance currently running that matches the same setting like db instance class…
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How to move reserved instance to a new instance

I am currently running an instance on a reserved instance. That instance now I dont want to use but I want to still not lose that instance. Just shutdown. How can I move the reserved instance that I paid long term to a newly created instance…
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AWS: Linux/UNIX platform is not available for Reserved Instance at N. Virginia region

I have an EC2 instance running in the N. Virginia region. The "Platform details" is shown as "Linux/UNIX". Now I am trying to purchase a reserved instance after selecting the same platform in the search field. But it is showing: Now when I search…
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Can i reserve EC2 instance hourly based to save cost?

I have more than 20 servers in one AWS region. But these instances are scheduled based. Each instance will run 12 hours per day. So all ec2 instance will be running more than 7000 hours per month. I have searched lot of documents, but i didn't get…
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Purchasing Reserved Instances to stop paying for existing Instances - AWS

I have a couple of instances(t2.micro & c5.2xlarge) that are running an application and they will be running 24/7 for the years to come. I am looking into buying reserved instances to save costs and have a question. If I purchase these instances,…
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