A company is planning to run a steady workload on AWS for the next 3 years. The cloud architect recommends purchasing Reserved Instances (RIs) to reduce compute costs. The CFO is worried that the company's instance requirements might change during the 3-year term. Which type of RI best addresses the CFO's concern by allowing the company to change the configuration of its reservation (for example, switch to a different instance family or operating system) while keeping the pricing benefit?
Convertible Reserved Instances allow you to exchange one or more active RIs for new RIs with a different configuration-such as a different instance family, operating system, or tenancy-at any time during the term. This gives long-term commitments the flexibility to adapt to changing business needs.
Standard Reserved Instances offer some modification options (for example, moving between Availability Zones or changing instance size within the same family), but they cannot be exchanged for a different instance family or platform. Scheduled Reserved Instances were intended for periodic workloads and are no longer available for new purchases, and Spot Instances provide discounted compute capacity that can be interrupted by AWS, so neither option solves the CFO's requirement for flexible, long-term reservations.
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