A company owns Standard Reserved Instances (RIs) for Amazon EC2 but will move part of the workload to a different instance family. How can the company make use of the Standard RIs they no longer need?
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Correct answer: Sell the Standard RIs on the Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace.
Why this is the answer
Standard Reserved Instances (RIs) can be sold on the Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace. This allows companies to recover some of their investment if their needs change and they no longer require the reserved capacity. Contacting AWS Support to sell them is incorrect; AWS does not act as a broker for selling RIs. Selling on the AWS Marketplace as a third-party seller is also incorrect; the specific marketplace for RIs is the EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace. Converting Standard RIs to Savings Plans is not possible; Savings Plans are a different pricing model and RIs cannot be directly converted into them.
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