BrandPost: Don’t Have Reservations About Your Reserved Instances

On the face of it, reserving cloud capacity in advance seems like a no-brainer. After all, the promised cost savings can be compelling. Customers purchasing Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances, for example, can save up to 75% of the costs of buying on-demand instances when needed.As is so often the case with such tantalizing benefits, however, the cost savings of reserved instances come with a catch: purchasing the wrong types or the wrong number of instances can, over time, prove confining and even