Reserved Instances

North offers flexible reserved instances for products not covered by compute savings plans. These RIs provide 3 year pricing optimization for AWS's relational database service (RDS), Opensearch & Elasticache.

RI Saver Home Page Basics

1. Cost: represents the last 30 days of total net spend for instance charges for RDS, OpenSearch & ElastiCache.

2. Savings Available: monthly savings available via North's compute saver program. Click SAVE NOW to subscribe & get started.

3. Spend Graph: offers a daily look at the compute spend by spend type (ondemand, reserved instances). Automatically showing the last 30 days.

4. Reservation Ledger & North Savings MTD Stats: Ledger shows your rate optimization health for both reservations made through North (identified with a pink dot) and those made directly to AWS (not flexible via the North program). Click VIEW MORE to expand to your reservation health page, and view advanced ESR and FinOps stats.

Details on North's Flexible RIs

North's RI Saver program offers customers the option to have North purchase RIs on the customer's behalf, without the traditional 3 year commitments. These RIs can always be purchased as new reservations with partial up front payment, or if the reservation type is available on our RI marketplace, you can request to take recycled RIs with no up front payment. In the latter scenario, the customer takes over the remaining unblended costs of the RI. Any RI handoffs, fees & terms are governed by the North MSA.

Analyzing Break-Even Projections

North will automatically analyze and show you TCO/breakeven statistics on each RI instance (total accrued costs vs On-Demand equivalent), both aggregated at the total account level, or broken down by individual service/instance type. To view, go to the checkout cart, Click DETAILS.