Reply To: Ambiguous question on Reserved Instances

[Kenneth-Samonte-Tutorials-Dojo]

For Regional Reserved instances, you don’t specify the Zone of the instances when you buy the Reserved Instance.

Zonal Reserved instances only show up when you enable the “Only show offering that reserve capacity” when you search for Reserve Instances to buy.

Zonal Reserved instances guarantees that a capacity is reserved to you on that zone and is available whenever you need. Regional Reserved instances does not guarantee the instances for that capacity reservation.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-capacity-reservations.html

Hope this helps.

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Kenneth Samonte @ Tutorials Dojo