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After Your Reserved Instance Is Sold
When your Reserved Instance is sold, AWS will send you an email notification. Each day that there is any kind of activity (for example, you create a listing; you sell a listing; or AWS sends funds to your account), you will get one email notification capturing all the activities of the day. For more information, see Notifications.
You can track the status of your Reserved Instance listings by looking at the My Listings tab of the selected Reserved
Instance on the Reserved Instance page in the Amazon EC2 console. The tab contains the Listing State information.
You can also use the ec2-describe-reserved-instances-listings CLI command or the DescribeReservedInstancesListings
API call, with the appropriate filter to see the state of your Reserved Instances.
Listing State can display any of the following statuses for your Reserved Instance listings:
Active—The listing is available for purchase.
Cancelled—The listing is cancelled and won't be available for purchase in the marketplace.
Closed—The Reserved Instance is not listed. A Reserved Instance might be Closed because the sale of the listing was completed.
Lifecycle of Listings
Now that you have created listings, let's walk through what happens when your listing sells.
When all the instances in your listing are matched and sold, the My Listings tab shows that your Total instance count matches the count listed under Sold, there are no Available instances left for your listing, and its Status is closed.
When only a portion of your listing is sold, AWS retires the Reserved Instances in the listing and creates a new Reserved Instance for the remaining instance count that are still available for sale. So, the Reserved Instances listing ID and the listing that it represents, which now has an instance count of fewer instances for sale, is still active.
Any future sales of Reserved Instances in this listing are processed this way. When all the Reserved Instances in the listing are sold, AWS marks the listing as closed.
For example, let's say you created a listing Reserved Instances listing ID 5ec28771-05ff-4b9b-aa31-9e57dexample with an instance count of 5.
Your My Listings tab in the Reserved Instance page of the Amazon EC2 console will display the listing this way:
Reserved Instance listing ID 5ec28771-05ff-4b9b-aa31-9e57dexample
Total instance count = 5
Sold = 0
Available = 5
Status = active
Let's say that a buyer purchases two of the instances, which leaves a count of three instances still available for sale. As a result of this partial sale, AWS creates a new Reserved Instance with an instance count of three to represent the remaining three that are still for sale.
This is how your listing will look in your My Listings tab:
Reserved Instance listing ID 5ec28771-05ff-4b9b-aa31-9e57dexample
Total instance count = 5
Sold = 2
Available = 3
Status = active
If you decide to cancel your listing and a portion of that listing has already sold, only that portion of the listing that has not yet been sold will no longer be available in the Reserved Instance Marketplace.
Getting Paid
As soon as AWS receives funds from the buyer of your Reserved Instance, AWS sends a message to your email address—that is, the email address associated with the account that is registered as owner of the Reserved Instance that was sold.
AWS sends an Automated Clearing House (ACH) wire transfer to the bank account that you specified when you registered for the Reserved Instance Marketplace. Typically, this transfer occurs between one to three days after your Reserved Instance has been matched. You can view the state of this disbursement by viewing your Reserved Instance disbursement report. Disbursements take place once a day. Keep in mind that you will not be able to receive disbursements until AWS has received verification from your bank. This period can take up to two weeks.
The Reserved Instance you sold will continue to appear in the results of DescribeReservedInstances calls you make for another 60 days
before disappearing from the list. You will receive a pro-rated refund for the portion of the upfront
fee you paid for the Reserved Instance that you did not use.
Notifications
As a seller in the Reserved Instance Marketplace, you will receive an email digest of the Reserved Instance Marketplace activities pertaining to your account. On any given day, you will receive one email digest, and you will only receive such an email if one or a combination of activities occurred that day:
You created a new listing in the Reserved Instance Marketplace.
You sold one or more of the Reserved Instances you listed.
AWS posted a disbursement to your bank account as a result of a sale of part or all of your listing in the Reserved Instance Marketplace.
Your email digest will look similar to this:
