# How Does Archera Help Navigate AWS EC2 Standard RI Marketplace Limits?

The out-of-the-box AWS limits on EC2 Standard RI marketplace transactions for a single AWS account are a maximum of $50,000 in Reserved Instances and up to 5,000 Reserved Instances.

Archera not only tracks these limits but also helps customers stay well below them in a few ways:

## Recommendation Strategy

We recommend EC2 Standard RIs & Archera Guaranteed RIs that are No Upfront so they are $0 listing — just transferring the remaining commitment and not containing any upfront value that would count toward the $50,000 limit.

## Instance Size Flexibility Optimization

We take advantage of instance size flexibility to sell fewer total RIs when we sell back. We modify an RI to a larger size before selling and this allows us to transfer a lower quantity over the marketplace. For example, 64 t3.nano = 1 t3.2xlarge under instance size flexibility — so for most orgs it would take on the order of 10 years of using the service to hit up against the limit (at which point AWS can approve a ticket for a limit increase).

## Account-Based Approach

The limits are per-account rather than per-organization. This means even if the limit is hit (usually by a customer doing it themselves before using Archera), it's easily sidestepped by changing the purchasing account within the org from the master payer account to one of the sub-accounts, as that account wouldn't have hit that limit.

## Related Resources

* [What does AWS RI 'Instance Size Flexibility' mean and how does it work?](https://docs.archera.ai/help-center/aws-faq/instance-size-flexibility)
* [Can Archera Help Resell or Manage Underutilized AWS Convertible RIs?](https://docs.archera.ai/help-center/aws-faq/convertible-ris)
* [How Does the AWS Restriction on Selling Discounted EC2 RIs in the Marketplace Affect Archera](https://docs.archera.ai/help-center/guaranteed-commitments/ri-marketplace)