Identify any failed Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (RIs) available within your AWS account and follow the Trend Micro Cloud One™ – Conformity guidelines for remediation in order to receive a significant discount (up to 75% depending on the commitment term) for EC2 hourly charges. A failed Amazon EC2 RI is an unsuccessful reservation that received the "payment-failed" status during the purchase process.
This rule can help you with the following compliance standards:
- APRA
- MAS
- AWAF
For further details on compliance standards supported by Conformity, see here.
This rule resolution is part of the Conformity Security & Compliance tool for AWS.
optimisation
Reserved Instances (RIs) represent a good strategy to cut down on Amazon EC2 costs but to fully receive the discount benefit you need to make sure that all your EC2 reservation purchases have been successfully completed.
Audit
To identify any failed Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance purchases available within your AWS cloud account, perform the following actions:
Remediation / Resolution
To mitigate unsuccessful Amazon EC2 reservations you have to retry your failed Reserved Instance payments by contacting Amazon Web Services. To create a support case for failed reservation payments, perform the following actions:
Note 1: Failed Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance (RI) purchases from previous billing periods can't be retried.Note 2: Creating a support case to request to retry your failed Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance payments using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) is not currently supported.
References
- AWS Documentation
- Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances
- How Reserved Instances Work
- Billing Benefits and Payment Options
- How do I retry a failed Reserved Instance payment?
- AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) Documentation
- ec2
- describe-reserved-instances
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EC2 Reserved Instance Payment Failed
Risk Level: High