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In the AWS context, they are, in fact. That's the original point of them - so during big AZ failures your reserved instances had first dibs on the available ca
by count 4y ago
In the AWS context, they are, in fact. That's the original point of them - so during big AZ failures your reserved instances had first dibs on the available capacity.
The billing thing became more of the point as big AZ failures are so rare.
- vageli 4y agoNon-zonal instance reservations do not reserve capacity. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-capacity-reservations.html#capacity-reservations-differences https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-capa...
- count 4y agoWell, yeah. But the zonal ones still do.