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0 pointsjedberg4y ago0 comments

Right but if someone sells you back their RIs, aren't you on the hook for paying for them if you can't resell them? So that's like a loan.

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kavehkhorram4y ago· 2 in thread

If we can't find a buyer then yes, we buy them back until we find a buyer.

To limit this risk, we only offer buy-back on particular instance families and regions that are most popular (and easy for us to sell to other users).

With 100s of users -- we have network effects that make it easy for us to sell.

oh_sigh4y ago

Do you have any interesting problems lined up that you would consider solving if you found yourself with a bunch of reserved instances that you're unable to sell?

kavehkhorram4y ago

Not at the moment. Any suggestions? :-)

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