Wow, that certainly is surprising. I've looked at the EC2 pricing page many times and never noticed that. I think you pasted the wrong link, though. Here's the

Wow, that certainly is surprising. I've looked at the EC2 pricing page many times and never noticed that. I think you pasted the wrong link, though. Here's the page which contains that quote: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/#reserved http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/#reserved