We are excited to announce the Reserved Instance Marketplace, an online marketplace that provides AWS customers the flexibility to sell their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Reserved Instances to other businesses and organizations. Customers can also browse the Reserved Instance Marketplace to find an even wider selection of Reserved Instance term lengths and pricing options sold by other AWS customers. Hear about the marketplace and get some tips on cost optimisation in this presentation.

1. Amazon Web Services Update | London
November 2012

2. Reserved Instance Marketplace
Ianni Vamvadelis, Solutions Architect

3. Agenda
• Reserved Instances - Reminder
• RI Marketplace
1. Register
2. Selling
3. Buying
4. Example
• Questions

4. Reserved Instances

5. Reserved Instance Options
On-demand Reserved Spot
Instances Instances Instances
• Pay as you go • Low upfront fee + • Requested Bid
lower hourly cost Price and Pay as
• Starts from • $23 for 1 year you go
$0.02/Hour term and • $0.005/Hour as
$0.012/Hour of today at 9 AM
1-year and 3-
year terms
Heavy Medium Light
Utilization RI Utilization RI Utilization RI

6. Optimize by using Reserved Instances
14
12
10 On Demand
Light Utilization RI
8
Medium Utilization RI
Heavy utilization RI
6
4
2
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

7. 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

8. Reserved Instance Specifics
Availability Zone eu-west-1b
Instance Type M1.xlarge
Operating System Windows
Platform VPC
Term 3 Year

9. Reserved Instance
Marketplace

11. EC2: Reserved Instances

12. EC2: Sell Reserved Instances

20. EC2: Selling Reserved Instances

36. EC2: Purchasing Reserved Instances

37. EC2: Purchasing Reserved Instances

38. EC2: Example Saving
RI Cost = Upfront + Hourly On Demand Cost:
= $ 109.20 + ( 6 * (744* $0.025) ) = On Demand * 744 * 6
= $ 109.20 + ( 6 * $ 18.60 ) = $ 0.085 * 744 * 6
= $ 109.20 + $ 111.60 = $ 379.44
= $ 220.80

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