New Check: Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Optimization

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Summary

An important part of using AWS involves balancing your Reserved Instance (RI) purchase against your On-Demand Instance usage. This check provides recommendations on which RIs will help reduce the costs incurred from using On-Demand Instances.

Motivation

This process of simulation and optimization allows us to maximize your cost savings.

Additional context

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awssupport/latest/user/cost-optimization-checks.html#amazon-ec2-reserved-instances-optimization