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# Return Credit

To earn credit for shrinking the size of your reservation (at the “Return Credit” rate included in your reservation), navigate to the “Instances” tab of the console and click the “manage” button on the reservation. From there, you can select which instances to return.

Only paused instances can be returned. If an instance is running, pause it first and then return it.

Returning instances is a non-reversible operation. The size of your reservation will be reduced by the number of instances returned and you cannot re-add them to this reservation.


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