AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) — Question 685

A company purchased Amazon EC2 Standard Reserved Instances (RIs) for a workload in the AWS Cloud. The company needs to move part of the workload to an instance family that does not match the instance family of these Standard RIs.

How can the company take advantage of the Standard RIs that it no longer needs?

Answer options

• A. Contact the AWS Support team, and ask the team to sell the Standard RIs
• B. Sell the Standard RIs on the Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace
• C. Sell the Standard RIs as a third-party seller on the AWS Marketplace
• D. Convert the Standard RIs to Savings Plans

Correct answer: B

Explanation

Standard Reserved Instances (RIs) cannot be converted to different instance families or Savings Plans, unlike Convertible RIs. To recoup costs, AWS allows customers to sell their unused Standard RIs to other AWS accounts via the Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace. AWS Support does not sell RIs on behalf of customers, and the general AWS Marketplace is not used for individual EC2 RI reselling.