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Rate Optimization (Commitments)

Support for Snowflake Cost Optimization Capabilities

Enhance visibility and control over Snowflake spend by identifying cost drivers, optimizing warehouse sizing and usage, reducing idle compute, and leveraging features like auto-suspend, query optimization, and storage tiering.
4 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Submitted

Commitment Support for GCP Vertex AI Provisioned Throughput

Vertex AI spend is increasing and there is a need to optimize it. Provisioned Throughput commitments offer a major discount off on-demand: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/provisioned-throughput-on-vertex-ai
5 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Submitted

Direct Chronosphere Connector for Utilization Data (Avoid Broad GCP Permissions)

Problem Statement: To enable GCP commitment tracking in Cloudability, "Advanced Credentials" are currently required. However, the associated script requires two high-level permissions that violate Yahoo’s security policies: storage.buckets.list: E...
16 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Submitted

Databrick Utilization - Please add the "utilization field" in the Cloudability Commitment Portfolio report

This would be a necessary field for use in Fin Ops development

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

Azure virtual machine commitments should roll up on the basis of instance size flexibility (ISF)

In general, the Azure reservations engine will process a reservation across all candidate VMs of many CPU-count sizes in the same family. The Cloudability VM Commitment Recs will show individual items for each VM size, which makes it difficult to ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

Commitment Support for Azure Sentinel

Azure Sentinel prices based on logging data and how long those logs are kept. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/pricing/microsoft-sentinel#section-master-oc2d43
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Future consideration

Commitment Support for Redshift Serverless Reservations

Portfolio and Recs support for https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/mgmt/serverless-billing-reserved.html
2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Future consideration

Introduce the feature to see total RI coverage & instance wise RI coverage (both current & historically) inside the optimization section in Cloudability

This will help us in our exercise to estimate the total RIs to be purchased based on our current coverage, usage and future needs

Interactive Savings Plans What‑If Simulation & Adjustable Coverage in Commitment Recommendations

Why is it useful? Cloudability’s current commitment recommendations are system‑driven, based on historical usage and a single recommended value, which does not reflect how MSPs and customers actually make commitment decisions in practice. Teams ne...