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> We buy Reserved Instances on your behalf (a billing layer change only) and bundle them with guaranteed buyback

This is by setting your AWS account as the payer account so you can aggregate? I’m curious how the finances will work out - at least one of them had challenges balancing their RIs with customer changes since there wasn’t a feedback cue for developers not to change instance types casually.

On a marketing level, I have an instinctive negative reaction to the claims like the title here has because I know it’s not true for me (my accounts are dominated by storage and network egress so even if EC2 were free you couldn’t get 57%). I’m wondering how best to phrase it to help people understand they can save a lot but not make it seem like you’re misrepresenting the possibilities. It’d also be useful to compare with compute savings plans.

parent acdha 3 years ago

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