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Cloud Contracts Now Penalize Unused Reserved Instances
Lucas and Luna unpack a quiet but costly shift in enterprise cloud agreements: providers are now charging penalties for underutilized reserved instances. They walk through a real example from a mid-size SaaS company that got hit with $340,000 in unused reservation fees in Q2 2026, and explain why this is a structural push to make customers match capacity planning to actual workload patterns. The episode covers how AWS, Azure, and GCP structure these clauses, the role of vendor-specific commitment terms like Convertible vs. Standard RIs, and why the era of 'buy and forget' capacity…
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