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Comment by marbletiles | Hacker News Reader

Not dropping the hourly rate for existing reserved instances leaves me feeling very short-changed.

Yes, I feel like an idiot now for just buying a bunch of reserved instances. By my calculations if you just bought a reserved instance you'd actually save money by rebuying it if you plan to run it heavily over the three year period!

I've been holding off on buying reserved instances because it looked like they were overdue for a price cut. Even now I'm not sure if I should go ahead and buy -- sure, I'd save money compared to the current on-demand instance prices, but is the 2012 reserved pricing cheaper than the 2014 on-demand pricing will be?

I really hope Amazon adds more transparency into the pricing so I can stop worrying about things like this.

Came here to say the same thing. I sent an annoyed message to customer service. It can't hurt, maybe they'll get enough complaints to change their minds.

I think your in luck. Looks like your existing reserved instances will see the savings as well.

"This customer was in the process of switching to 3-year Heavy Utilization Reserved Instances (seeing most of their instances are running steady state) for a whopping savings of 55%. Now, with the new EC2 price drop we're announcing today, this customer will save another 37% on these Reserved Instances."

I think that was carefully worded - note the "in the process of switching". The email sent to existing owners this morning says the new pricing will only apply to reserved instances purchased since March 6.

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