Reserved Instances and Savings Plans discount sharing

The management account of an organization can deactivate Reserved Instance discount and Savings Plans discount sharing for any accounts in that organization, including the management account. This means that Reserved Instances and Savings Plans discounts aren't shared between any accounts that have deactivated sharing.

To share an Reserved Instance or Savings Plans discount with an account, both accounts must have sharing activated. You can change your preference at any time. Each estimated bill is computed by using the last set of preferences. The final bill for the month is calculated based on the preferences set at 23:59:59 UTC time on the last day of the month.

Important

Deactivating Reserved Instance and Savings Plans discount sharing can result in a higher monthly bill.

Deactivating shared Reserved Instances and Savings Plans discounts

You can deactivate sharing discounts for individual member accounts.

To deactivate shared Reserved Instances and Savings Plans discounts

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the AWS Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Billing preferences.

3. Under Reserved Instances and Savings Plans discount sharing preference by account, select the accounts that you want to deactivate discount sharing for.

4. Choose Deactivate.

5. In the Deactivate Reserved Instance and Savings Plan sharing dialog box, choose Deactivate.

Tip

You can also choose Actions and then choose Deactivate All to deactivate Reserved Instance and Savings Plans sharing for all accounts.

Activating shared Reserved Instances and Savings Plans discounts

You can use the console to activate Reserved Instance sharing discounts for an account.

You can share Savings Plans with a set of accounts. You can either choose to not share the benefit with other accounts, or to open up line item eligibility for the entire consolidated billing family of accounts.

To activate shared Reserved Instances and Savings Plans discounts

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the AWS Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/.

   Note

   Ensure that you're signed in to the management account of your AWS Organizations.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Billing preferences.

3. Under Reserved Instances and Savings Plans discount sharing preference by account, select the accounts that you want to activate discount sharing for.

4. Choose Activate.

5. In the Activate Reserved Instance and Savings Plan sharing dialog box, choose Activate.

Tip

You can also choose Actions and then choose Activate All to activate Reserved Instance and Savings Plans sharing for all accounts.