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Right 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 5y ago
  If 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 5y ago
    Do 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 5y ago
      Not at the moment. Any suggestions? :-)
      • fhk 5y ago
        Use the compute to solve your own allocation problems using mathematical optimization.