Request future dated Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservations

Today, we are announcing that you can request Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservations to start on a future date. Capacity Reservations provide assurance for your critical workloads by allowing you to immediately reserve compute capacity in a specific Availability Zone. Starting today, you can now create Capacity Reservations to start on a future date, enabling you to secure capacity for your future needs and providing you with peace of mind for your critical future scaling events. You can create future dated Capacity Reservations by specifying the capacity you need, start date, and the minimum duration you commit to use the reservation. Once EC2 approves the request, your reservation will be scheduled to go active on the chosen start date and upon activation, you can immediately launch instances. This new capability is available to all Capacity Reservations customers in all [AWS commercial regions](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/), AWS China regions, and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions at no additional cost. To learn more about these features, please refer to the [Capacity Reservations user guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/capacity-reservations-create.html).