Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances allow you to reserve Amazon EC2 computing capacity for 1 or 3 years, in exchange for a significantly discounted hourly rate (up to 75%), compared to On-Demand Instance pricing.
Reserved Instances can significantly lower your computing costs for your workloads and provide a capacity reservation so that you can have confidence in your ability to launch the number of instances you have reserved when you need them.
One of the subtle downsides of Reserved Instances is that you can easily lose track on when an instance contract is going to expire. When that occurs AWS will automatically switch you to the higher On-Demand Instance pricing. At the higher price you can find yourself getting an AWS bill that is surprisingly higher than previous months because of the Reserved Instance expiration.
As part of AWS Managed Services from Blumetech, we are now adding a new feature that will alert you to any pending Reserved Instance expirations. We will monitor your account for any Reserved Instances that will expire in the next 30 days. We then send you six reminder e-mail alerts that are spread-out evenly over the remainder of the Reserved Instance contract.
This new feature is free to you and is included for all AWS Managed Services customers.
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This functionality was released earlier this month and has automatically been applied to your account.
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