[quicksilver03]

3yr reserved instances is something that baffled me when I was doing the research for https://www.hostingforappdevelopers.com .

What reasons push people to pay upfront and to commit to a solution whose main benefit is elasticity?

[bigiain]

For those sweet sweet discounts?

Because who cares about costs next year or the year after, I'm just on a 6 month contract here!

(Even more cynically, "because it's just like buying servers, but comes on the OpEx budget not the CapEx one, so _my_ KPIs look _awesome!_")