[vosper]

> Businesses can sell RIs they’ve purchased, setting their own price for the remainder of the contract.

You can't sell convertible RIs, I thought? Would love to find out that's wrong.

From what I've seen RIs are a trap, suitable to hardly anyone, especially not startups. If your infra is elastic or evolving at all, be really careful before going for RIs. And I would never go for more than a one year reserve.

(maybe if you are deploying K8s over RIs it's fine, you'll be able to utilise at least partially even if your infra changes - but if you have workload-per-instance or service-per-instance then be careful)

[StopHammoTime]

Almost everyone has some kind of base workload, whether it’s RDS or EC2 operating some specific piece of infra.

Some people may not be able to RI their entire workloads, but EVERYONE can reduce their AWS spend partially using RIs. It may only be a little bit but better in your pocket than Amazons.

[scarytom]

You are correct, you cannot sell Convertible RIs on the RI Marketplace.

I think it is going too far to say that RIs are a trap: the rules are pretty transparent. I agree with you that if your infra is elastic or evolving then you need to be very cautious about making large or long-term commitments.

[vosper]

I think the convertibles are a bit of a trap, though - even though the rules are transparent. You might overprovision to begin with (which you may not realise), then you can't even sell them.