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Actually we aren't loaning any money since we use no-upfront RIs only. We have some customers that spend $10M+ on AWS, so we can work with any size of company.
by kavehkhorram 4y ago
Actually we aren't loaning any money since we use no-upfront RIs only.
We have some customers that spend $10M+ on AWS, so we can work with any size of company.
- jedberg 4y agoRight but if someone sells you back their RIs, aren't you on the hook for paying for them if you can't resell them? So that's like a loan.
- kavehkhorram 4y agoIf we can't find a buyer then yes, we buy them back until we find a buyer. To limit this risk, we only offer buy-back on particular instance families and regions that are most popular (and easy for us to sell to other users). With 100s of users -- we have network effects that make it easy for us to sell.
- oh_sigh 4y agoDo you have any interesting problems lined up that you would consider solving if you found yourself with a bunch of reserved instances that you're unable to sell?
- kavehkhorram 4y agoNot at the moment. Any suggestions? :-)
- fhk 4y agoUse the compute to solve your own allocation problems using mathematical optimization.