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Can I automatically renew my EC2 Reserved Instance?
I want to set up my Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Reserved Instance (RI) to renew automatically.
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To renew your EC2 RI automatically, queue an RI purchase for the date and time that your existing RI expires. On the scheduled date and time, AWS automatically purchases the RI for you with your account's default payment method. For more information, see Queue your purchase.
To view your active RIs and see when they expire, check the Amazon EC2 console. You can also set reservation expiration alerts to remind you when your RIs are about to expire. However, reservation expiration alerts don't automatically renew RIs, or purchase new RIs for you.
Note: EC2 RIs impact only the price of EC2 instances on your account. When an EC2 RI expires, it doesn't cause any instances to shut down or terminate. For more information, see What happens when my Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance expires?
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This article does not mention an important point. Queuing your purchase will attempt renew on that particular date, but once purchased the expiry date for the new instance will not consider any existing balance expiry for the current instance. Not all customers have auto renew option (esp with those who do not have credit card set as payment). So in case of manual payment if you have to renew do not attempt to renew very early (in my case I renewed when I still had like more than a week expiry but then that week expiry is not added to the new instance expiry.
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