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Introducing Dynamic Prepay Amortization Tracking: Automatic Accounting for AWS Savings Plans and Reserved Instance Prepayment

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This decouples the timing of when usage is paid for from when it’s consumed, which for customers using accrual vs. cash accounting (most large companies), results in a need to amortize the prepayment. If you prepay for a 12-month Compute Savings Plan, you simply straight-line amortize the cost over 12 months—done.