How to Reserve an Instance

After you know what Reserved Instances are available, you can purchase them.

The following is an example of how to purchase Reserved Instances for 3 m1.small instances using the ec2-purchase-reserved-instances-offering command-line tool.

PROMPT> ec2-purchase-reserved-instances-offering --offering 4b2293b4-5813-4cc8-9ce3-1957fc1dcfc8 --instance-count 3
PURCHASE   4b2293b4-5813-4cc8-9ce3-1957fc1dcfc8  af9f760e-c1c1-449b-8128-1342d3a6927a  af9f760e-c1c1-449b-8128-1342d3a6927b  af9f760e-c1c1-449b-8128-1342d3a6927c

	Note
	Write down or save the reservation numbers for future reference.