Savings Plans and Reserved Instances Group Sharing is now generally available

AWS today announced the general availability of Reserved Instances and Savings Plans (RISP) Group Sharing, a new Billing and Cost Management feature that gives customers granular control over how AWS commitments are shared across their organization. This capability allows customers to define how Reserved Instances and Savings Plans benefits are distributed among specific groups of accounts within their AWS organization, ensuring cost savings align with their business structure and accountability requirements.

RISP Group Sharing addresses a common challenge faced by enterprise customers managing AWS costs across multiple business units: for example, Reserved Instances and Savings Plans don't always benefit the teams that purchased them. With this feature, customers can create groups using AWS Cost Categories that reflect their organizational hierarchy—whether by business units, projects, geographical regions, or funding sources. The feature offers two sharing options: the Prioritized Group Sharing applies commitments to defined groups first, then shares unused capacity organization-wide, while the Restricted Group Sharing keeps commitments exclusively within defined groups for complete isolation when strict boundaries are required.

RISP Group Sharing is available now in all AWS Regions, except AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and the China Regions.

To get started with RISP Group Sharing, visit the Billing preferencesfrom the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console and follow the guided setup to create your first Cost Category and configure sharing preferences. For detailed implementation guidance, see the user guide and announcement blog.