Amazon Web Services Update | London

November 2012

Reserved Instance Marketplace

Ianni Vamvadelis, Solutions Architect

Agenda • Reserved Instances - Reminder

• RI Marketplace 1. Register

2. Selling

3. Buying

4. Example

• Questions

Reserved Instances

Reserved Instance Options

Heavy Utilization RI

Medium Utilization RI

Light Utilization RI

1-year and 3-year terms

On-demand Instances

• Pay as you go

• Starts from $0.02/Hour

Reserved Instances

• Low upfront fee + lower hourly cost

• $23 for 1 year term and $0.012/Hour

Spot Instances

• Requested Bid Price and Pay as you go

• $0.005/Hour as of today at 9 AM

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On Demand

Light Utilization RI

Medium Utilization RI

Heavy utilization RI

Optimize by using Reserved Instances

Example: M1.xlarge On Demand: $0.680 per Hour = $501.26/month

3 years = $18045.36

3 year RI: $2400 + 36 * $120.62

3 years = $ 6742.32

Reserved Instance Specifics

Availability Zone eu-west-1b

Instance Type M1.xlarge

Operating System Windows

Platform VPC

Term 3 Year

Reserved Instance

Marketplace

EC2: Reserved Instances

EC2: Sell Reserved Instances

EC2: Selling Reserved Instances

EC2: Purchasing Reserved Instances

EC2: Purchasing Reserved Instances

On Demand Cost:

= On Demand * 744 * 6

= $ 0.085 * 744 * 6

= $ 379.44

EC2: Example Saving

RI Cost = Upfront + Hourly

= $ 109.20 + ( 6 * (744* $0.025) )

= $ 109.20 + ( 6 * $ 18.60 )

= $ 109.20 + $ 111.60

= $ 220.80

Links: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/reserved-instances/marketplace/

and http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/ec2