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Sounds like a worthwhile investment to me and we have the funding. I'd like to try to get this on this year's budget, if possible. André, can you please check to see whether it is possible to pay Amazon for a year in advance through an annual fee? That would allow me to cover this on this year's budget rather than a month-to-month contract. We may have to contact Amazon support for clarification.

André, can you please check to see whether it is possible to pay Amazon for a year in advance through an annual fee?

I know we can pay for "reserving" an instance for the year, and that this reduces the monthly costs by close to 50%. As for paying for the entire year, I pretty sure this will not be possible because their whole model is "pay as you go" so this would go against the grain in this sense.

I searched around their website and was not able to find any option to pay in advance. Matt, is this a must-have? Thanks.

not "must-have" but it would make it a lot easier. Is there any way you might contact tech support to see what is possible? Perhaps we can pre-pay a certain amount up front and then have monthly usage deducted from it?

If you could check on that, I would appreciate it.

Matt, if we pre-pay a certain amount at the beginning of the year, but then for some reason go over that pre-payment, then what would you envision happening?

then i would add more money to the account. just trying to get as much as possible on this year's budget.

Ok, I see your logic. I posed the question to support. Let's see what they say.