To purchase Reserved Instance, visit the AWS homepage searching for Reserved Instance offerings, tweaking your search parameters until you find a match. When you search for Reserved Instance, you’ll see quotes about the cost of the respective results. Before you confirm the purchase, review in detail the Reserved Instance that you intend to purchase and make sure that all parameters are correct. Once payment is complete, you cannot cancel your purchase.
Access Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/
In the left navigation pane, select Reserved Instances, then continue to select Purchase Reserved Instances.
For Offering class, select Standard to display all Reserved Instances of Standard type.
If the specified reservation Instance is in a specific area, turn on Only show offerings that reserve capacity in the upper right corner of the payment screen. Once enabled, the Availability Zone field will appear.
Adjust some other options, then click Search.
For each Reserved Instance that you want to purchase, clearly enter the desired quantity and then click Add to cart.
To purchase Standard Reserved Instance from Reserved Instance Marketplace, search for 3rd party in Seller column in search results. The Term column shows non-standard maturities.
To view aggregate information for the type of Reserved Instances you have selected, click View cart.
If the order payment time is Now, the payment will take place right after you click Order all. To put the Order on the waiting list, click Now and then select the date and time to pay.
To complete payment for orders, click Order all.
If at the time of ordering, there is an offer to purchase the same Instance but at a lower cost, AWS will suggest it for you to purchase at a lower cost.
Click Close.
The status of the order will be listed in the State column. When the order is paid, the State will change from Payment-pending to Active. When Reserved Instance is Active, it is ready for use.
Access the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/
In the left navigation pane, select Reserved Instances, then continue to select Purchase Reserved Instances.
For Offering class, select Convertible to display all Reserved Instances of type Convertible.
If the specified reservation Instance is in a specific area, turn on Only show offerings that reserve capacity in the upper right corner of the payment screen. Once enabled, the Availability Zone field will appear.
Adjust some other options, then click Search.
For each Reserved Instance that you want to purchase, clearly enter the desired quantity and then click Add to cart.
To view aggregate information for the type of Reserved Instances you have selected, click View cart.
If the Order payment time is Now, the payment will take place right after you click Order all. To put the Order on the waiting list, click Now and then select the date and time to pay.
To complete payment for orders, click Order all.
If at the time of ordering, there is an offer to purchase the same Instance but at a lower cost, AWS will suggest it for you to purchase at a lower cost.
Click Close.
The status of the order will be listed in the State column. When the order is paid, the State will change from Payment-pending to Active. When Reserved Instance is Active, it is ready for use.
You can purchase Reserved Instances from a third party who owns the Reserved Instance but they no longer need to use them. The purchase process is quite similar to when you make an Instance purchase on AWS.
Some of the differences between purchaseing Reserved Instance on Reserved Instance Marketplace and purchaseing directly on AWS are:
Term – Reserved Instances purchased from a third party will have a shorter remaining term than when purchased directly on AWS. The term for a Reserved Instance when purchased on AWS is between 1 and 3 years.
Upfront price – Third-party Reserved Instances may be sold with a different prepayment requirement than when purchased directly on AWS. Remaining usage or recurring costs remain the same as when purchasing a Reserved Instance directly from AWS.
Types of Reserved Instances – Amazon EC2 Standard Reserved Instances can only be purchased on the Reserved Instance Marketplace. All other types such as Convertible Reserved Instances, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache Reserved Instances are not available on this platform.
Access the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/
In the left navigation pane, select Reserved Instances.
Information about the payment waiting list, active RIs, and expired RIs will be listed here. The State column shows the status of the RIs.
An order can be on a payment waiting list for up to 3 years. So you can cancel the order at any time, as long as the order has not reached the time of activation. To cancel do the following:
Access the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/
In the left navigation pane, click Reserved Instances.
Select one or more Reserved Instances.
Click Actions, then select Delete queued Reserved Instances.
When a message pops up asking for Confirm, press Delete, then Close.