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Assign billing of your shared #AmazonEC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations

What's new at AWS 📢

⚜️ Assign billing of your shared #AmazonEC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations

⚜️ With this feature, customer can assign the billing of unused Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCR) to any one of their organization accounts with which the reservation is shared.

⚜️ What is Capacity Reservations:
It is a cost optimization technique, which help customer reserve compute capacity for any duration and share it across multiple accounts.
Also it enabling customer to centrally pool and manage reserved capacity.

⚜️ How to share On-Demand Capacity Reservations:
1️⃣ Select any shared reservation

 2️⃣ Initiate a request to assign its billing to a specific AWS account.
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⚜️ Once the request is accepted by the new account, unused charges will be billed to the assigned account.

⚜️ Otherwise, billing for any instances running inside the Capacity Reservation is assigned to the respective accounts that launched the instances.

📒 Important Note:
✔️ This sharing feature is available at no additional cost.
✔️ Capacity Reservation owner remains the resource owner and responsible for managing the Capacity Reservation
✔️ Billing of all available capacity of a Capacity Reservation can be assigned to one account at a time.

⚜️ Key note for billing:
⚕️ If the Capacity Reservation is shared, each account is billed for their respective usage of the reservation
⚕️ If not shared, unused capacity is by default billed to the account that owns the reservation.
⚕️ With this feature, customer can have the flexibility to configure which account gets billed for the unused capacity.

📌 Checkout the pricing and billing for CR:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/capacity-reservations-pricing-billing.html

📌Creation of On-Demand Capacity Reservations:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/automate-the-creation-of-on-demand-capacity-reservations-for-running-ec2-instances/

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