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Why would someone buy Reserved Instances for disaster recovery purposes? Why pay for them ahead of time if they aren't being used?
by chrisbolt 17y ago
Why would someone buy Reserved Instances for disaster recovery purposes? Why pay for them ahead of time if they aren't being used?
- blasdel 17y agoMainly so that there'll be no delay in capacity when allocating the instance. You break even on the reservation fee if it's on half of the time.
- vidarh 17y agoBecause you want to make sure they're actually available when you need them, and that the rest of your primary providers customers haven't thought the same thing and fill EC2 to capacity before you get in there. I know I wouldn't want to be the one to have to tell my boss that we couldn't get our DR setup running because we didn't have any contract in place that ensured capacity was available.