> Businesses can sell RIs they’ve purchased, setting their own price for the remainder of the contract.

You can't sell convertible RIs, I thought? Would love to find out that's wrong.

From what I've seen RIs are a trap, suitable to hardly anyone, especially not startups. If your infra is elastic or evolving at all, be really careful before going for RIs. And I would never go for more than a one year reserve.

(maybe if you are deploying K8s over RIs it's fine, you'll be able to utilise at least partially even if your infra changes - but if you have workload-per-instance or service-per-instance then be careful)