Curious what happens to resources and reservations if Usage goes out of business? Three years is actually a pretty long horizon to rely on a startup still being around.
It's an asset on their books, but I doubt any of their investors/creditors can get any real use out of them. So my guess is AWS gets to keep that extra $$$.
Yes I was thinking about this from a customer's perspective. In particular I can't tell if Usage is buying/selling/holding reservations in their account but on their customer's behalf, or if they are just automating the buying and selling of reservations but that's all done in the customer's account with the customer's money. If the latter then if Usage disappears one day I assume you might be stuck with reservations you don't want, or without the ones you do want, but in the former scenario the situation could be more chaotic if suddenly resources you depend on simply stopped being paid for.