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Not dropping the hourly rate for existing reserved instances leaves me feeling very short-changed.
by bonaldi 15y ago
Not dropping the hourly rate for existing reserved instances leaves me feeling very short-changed.
- epi0Bauqu 15y agoYes, I feel like an idiot now for just buying a bunch of reserved instances. By my calculations if you just bought a reserved instance you'd actually save money by rebuying it if you plan to run it heavily over the three year period!
- cperciva 15y agoI've been holding off on buying reserved instances because it looked like they were overdue for a price cut. Even now I'm not sure if I should go ahead and buy -- sure, I'd save money compared to the current on-demand instance prices, but is the 2012 reserved pricing cheaper than the 2014 on-demand pricing will be? I really hope Amazon adds more transparency into the pricing so I can stop worrying about things like this.
- dazzla 15y agoI think your in luck. Looks like your existing reserved instances will see the savings as well. "This customer was in the process of switching to 3-year Heavy Utilization Reserved Instances (seeing most of their instances are running steady state) for a whopping savings of 55%. Now, with the new EC2 price drop we're announcing today, this customer will save another 37% on these Reserved Instances."
- bonaldi 15y agoI think that was carefully worded - note the "in the process of switching". The email sent to existing owners this morning says the new pricing will only apply to reserved instances purchased since March 6.
- ef4 15y agoCame here to say the same thing. I sent an annoyed message to customer service. It can't hurt, maybe they'll get enough complaints to change their minds.