Future-dated Capacity Reservations For AWS EC2 On-Demand

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is used for databases, virtual desktops, big data processing, web hosting, HPC, and live event broadcasting

It suggests using the console or Amazon EventBridge to keep an eye on the progress of your request

These are charged in the same way as standard CRs, Whether you run instances in reserved capacity or not, you are still charged the same On-Demand fee

The capacity reserve will become Active on the day you have chosen, the total number of instances will be raised to the desired number

You have the option to either cancel the reservation if it is no longer needed or keep it and use it if you would like after the commitment period has passed

The reservation has no expiry date if you choose Manually. Unless you actively cancel it, it will stay in your account and keep getting billed

Select the Capacity Reservation information section. Choose your start date and commitment period later on in the Capacity Reservation starts option