Rule Description
Rule Code: AWS-RI-04
Identify any failed Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance (RI) purchases available within your AWS account.
A payment-failed EC2 RI purchase is a reservation purchase that the payment for your RI was unsuccessful. It maintains the 'payment-failed' status long after the initial purchase attempt.
Audit / Verification
Step 01: Sign in to the AWS Management Console.
Step 02: Navigate to EC2 dashboard, under INSTANCES section, choose Reserved Instances. Choose State parameter and select Payment Failed to filter the list of Pending RI
Step 03: Switch to the other AWS regions and follow the same above audit process.