Like the Roman god Janus, Amazon has 2 faces. One face handles online goods retail, the other cloud-based services. But what if the two faces meet? Enter Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace.
The concept behind the EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace is simple-- it allows Amazon customers to sell unneeded virtual servers (or rather, "Reserved Instances" within the Elastic Compute Cloud) to other users... with Amazon taking a 12% service fee (similar to the cut Amazon takes on its physical goods marketplace).
Reserved Instances are virtual server reservations one can buy for future use.
Amazon says the service is ideal for customers moving instances to a different AWS region or selling capacity for projects ending before the term expires.
