Does the RI Optimizer exclude severely underutilized EC2 instances?
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Does the RI Optimizer exclude severely underutilized EC2 instances?

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The RI Optimizer does not exclude underutilized instances since it is looking at net instance hours run rather than just the count of the instances. 

For example, if an instance only has 10 hours in a month, only those 10 hours will be considered in the recommendation calculation.