Monitoring your size flexible reservations for Amazon EC2 - AWS Data Exports

Monitoring your size flexible reservations for Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances that apply to a Region provide Availability Zone flexibility and instance size flexibility. Reserved Instances that provide Availability Zone flexibility provide a discount on usage in any Availability Zone in the Region. Reserved Instances that provide instance size flexibility provide a discount on usage, regardless of instance size in that family. Size flexible Reserved Instances apply to the smallest instance sizes first. For more information, see How Reserved Instances are applied in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

To understand how instance size flexibility provided by your Reserved Instance is applied to your usage, refer to the lineItem/NormalizationFactor and lineItem/NormalizedUsageAmount columns.

Note

Instance size flexibility is supported only by Linux or Unix Reserved Instances with default tenancy that are assigned to a Region. For more information on the limitations of instance size flexibility for Regional Reserved Instances, see How regional Reserved Instances are applied in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

In a Cost and Usage Report, the Reserved Instance usage is applied by default to the account that purchased the Reserved Instance. Any available Reserved Instance benefit that the purchasing account can’t use within the hour is then applied to other linked accounts based on the available matching On-Demand Instance usage.

Example

You purchase one m4.xlarge RI in a given Region. This m4.xlarge RI can be applied automatically to all m4 instance usage in the same Region. In the following table, AWS applied the m4.xlarge to two separate m4.large instances.

lineItem/LineItemType RIFee Discounted Usage Discounted Usage
lineItem/ProductCode AmazonEC2 AmazonEC2 AmazonEC2
lineItem/UsageStartDate 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z
lineItem/UsageType HeavyUsage:m4.xlarge BoxUsage:m4.large BoxUsage:m4.large
lineItem/LineItemDescription USD 0.0618 hourly fee per Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC), m4.xlarge instance Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC), m4.large Reserved Instance applied Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC), m4.large Reserved Instance applied
lineItem/ResourceId i-1bd250bc i-1df340ed
lineItem/UsageAmount 1 1
lineItem/NormalizationFactor 4 4 4
lineItem/NormalizedUsageAmount 4 4
lineItem/UnblendedRate 0 0
lineItem/UnblendedCost 46 0 0
Reservation/ ReservationARN arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1: 123456789012:reserved-instances /f8c204c1 arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1: 123456789012:reserved-instances /f8c204c1 arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1: 123456789012:reserved-instances /f8c204c1
Reservation/TotalReservedUnits 744
Reservation/TotalReserved NormalizedUnits 5952

The two m4.large usage line items have different ResourceIds, and both received a discount benefit from the single m4.xlarge RI. This is shown by matching the reservationARN value across the usage and recurring monthly charge line items.

For more information about RI purchase options, see How you are billed in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.