# How Does the AWS RI Marketplace Restriction Affect Archera?

## Does the 2023 AWS announcement on discounted RIs being listed in the EC2 Standard RI marketplace affect Archera customers?

Archera is not a Reseller or Distributor and doesn't rely on selling discounted EC2 RIs, which are the ones impacted by this change (e.g. ones acquired under volume discounts).

Since Archera is an insured commitment model (with actual insurance backing each commitment buy-back or utilization guarantee), we have the ability to rebate customers for any underutilized commitment that can't be resold — so the economics of any Guaranteed EC2 Standard RI remain the same to our customers regardless of resell-ability.

Additionally, Archera allows customers to buy and insure all commitment types, not just EC2 Standard RIs — so customers using Guaranteed Savings Plans, Convertible Reserved Instances, or other instruments would not be affected.

Finally, Archera's insured commitment model allows us to provide customers who may have these non-transactable RIs in their account the ability to add insurance on to them and de-risk them being underutilized, even without the ability to resell in the AWS EC2 Standard RI Marketplace.

## Related Resources

* [How Does Guaranteed Commitment Pricing Work?](/help-center/guaranteed-commitments/pricing.md)
* [How to Enable EC2 RI Marketplace](/help-center/guaranteed-commitments/enable-ri-marketplace.md)
* [Do you have 3rd-party insurance?](/help-center/guaranteed-commitments/third-party-insurance.md)


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