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Rate Optimization (Commitments)

Commitment Support for AWS Database Savings Plans

AWS has introduced Database Savings Plans, a commitment-based discount model that reduces eligible managed database costs by up to 35% with an hourly $/hour commitment over a 1-year term, automatically applying each hour to eligible database usage...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

Commitment Support for Microsoft Fabric

Commitment Support for Microsoft Fabric
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Future consideration

Commitment Support for AWS Sagemaker Savings Plans Recommendations

Commitment Support for AWS Sagemaker Savings Plans Recommendations
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure AI Foundry Provisioned Throughput

All available commitment types should be included in the list of purchased commitments My company is using "openai_provisioned_throughput" as a way of savings on AI usage. Currently those reservations are not listed in Cldy making it difficult for...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Future consideration

To show Savings under Azure Savings Compute plan in commitment portfolio

Customer would like to see the Savings they are making on their account under Commitment Portfolio. As of now, they do see details related to Utilization, Hourly commit and Remaining cost, however having the option to see the savings happening wou...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

Cloudability/Optimize/Commitment Portfolio - add Payer Id, and Account Id/Name

As a member of a central FinOps team, covering multiple AWS and Azure payer accounts, we would like to be able to filter the Commitment Portfolio by Payer Id and/or the 'hosting' Vendor Account Name / Id that has the purchased items. Currently the...

Commitment Support for Azure Database Savings Plans

Publicly announced today, this new commitment type offers up to 35% savings across a range of database services. See: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/finopsblog/announcing-savings-plan-for-databases-flexible-savings-for-modern-evolving-wo...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

Commitment Support for GCP VMware Engine

Commitment Support for GCP VMware Engine
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure Backup

A capacity reservation lowers storage costs of backup data in a Recovery Services Vault. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and ask where the additional reserved instance recommendations ar...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Future consideration

Commitment Management 2.0 for Azure Commitment Recommendations

The commitment recommendations functionality in AWS and GCP is great. I would like to see this supported in Azure.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release