Agreed, 1 year is the sweet spot here. I didn't appreciate the opportunity cost of getting the 3-year RI, as much as the straw man "savings" against the current on-demand prices.
I certainly understand that Amazon's interests are different from mine, and they are going to make offerings that are good for them. But the best offers are win-win, and a 3-year RI doesn't meet that bar. It's a bad…
I would also love to be able to move across instance families. Another reason not to commit for a long period of time. I'm willing to say "I'm committed to using x amount of AWS computing power over the next 3 years"…
Pet peeve in case Jeff Barr (or another AWS person) reads this. I purchased multiple 3-year heavy utilization RIs just a few months before the price wars last year. The ROI on those went from "great" to "very modest"…
Agreed, 1 year is the sweet spot here. I didn't appreciate the opportunity cost of getting the 3-year RI, as much as the straw man "savings" against the current on-demand prices.
I certainly understand that Amazon's interests are different from mine, and they are going to make offerings that are good for them. But the best offers are win-win, and a 3-year RI doesn't meet that bar. It's a bad…
I would also love to be able to move across instance families. Another reason not to commit for a long period of time. I'm willing to say "I'm committed to using x amount of AWS computing power over the next 3 years"…
Pet peeve in case Jeff Barr (or another AWS person) reads this. I purchased multiple 3-year heavy utilization RIs just a few months before the price wars last year. The ROI on those went from "great" to "very modest"…