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I was looking at pricing some reserved instances for one of our organisation's mssql DBs. When I head into the console the appropriate options, such as product (sqlserver-se), size (m5.xlarge), etc, Amazon is giving the same price for an upfront payment for 1yr & 3yr!

I'm baffled. As a test, if I select a small instance, with mssql-web it does change the price when I change between 1 & 3 yrs.

Anyone know what might be happening? I don't see any other options on the page.

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Trev
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    Per https://aws.amazon.com/rds/sqlserver/pricing/, db.m5.large (and all the other m5 generation instances) only has one year terms listed. I do see three year terms for db.m4 instances; I suspect they're doing away with the longer option in more recent generations. – ceejayoz Jun 11 '19 at 13:00
  • Ah I see. That was quite puzzling. They really should display a message to say 3 yr is unavailable rather than allow selection. Thanks a million @ceejayoz! – Trev Jun 11 '19 at 13:08
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    @ceejayoz - if you put that into an answer I'll mark it as accepted. – Trev Jun 11 '19 at 13:10
  • I am curious about what happens if you purchase a three year term via the UI - whether it just drops down to a one year, or if you wind up buying three sequential. You're right - it should grey out the three year option if you select an m5 instance. – ceejayoz Jun 11 '19 at 13:12
  • Same here - I'm a but if a chicken giving the up front payment involved ;-) – Trev Jun 11 '19 at 13:16

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Per https://aws.amazon.com/rds/sqlserver/pricing, db.m5.large (and all the other m5 generation instances) only has one year terms listed. I do see three year terms for db.m4 instances; I suspect they're doing away with the longer option in more recent generations.

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