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Rate Optimization (Commitments)

The new Commitment Portfolio column preference feature is limited in flexibility and requires further enhancement.

Allow users to fully customize and persist their preferred column selections within the Commitment Portfolio view, ensuring that these preferences are saved across sessions and can be tailored to different organizational needs.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Delivered

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...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Delivered

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...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Delivered

Estimate required Compute Savings Plans Commitment to reach target coverage

It would be very valuable to have a feature in Cloudability that allows us to input a desired AWS Compute Savings Plans coverage percentage, and receive an estimate of the required hourly commitment to achieve that coverage.Use case : We must manu...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Delivered

Have ability to enter a hypothetical Savings Plan purchase amount and terms and return estimated savings and coverage metrics

Problem:Right now the Optimize → Commitment Recs → AWS → Compute Savings Plan recommendation tooling only provides recommendations to achieve maximum savings coverage for current workloads. However, some organizations have a lower risk tolerance a...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Delivered

Commitment Support Azure Blob Storage

A reservation covers storage capacity for Blob storage and Azure Data Lake Gen2 storage. The reservation doesn't cover bandwidth or transaction rates. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Delivered

Commitment Support for Azure App Services

The customer has requested to include Azure Web App as an option under drop-down for commitment Portfilio.
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Delivered

Alert when net savings become negative

I can set alerts when a commitment drops below a set threshold percent but I want to know when ANY commitment becomes negative in net savings. Is this feature available and hidden or does it need to be a new feature?
4 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Delivered

Commitment Recommendations list should include account names

When I look at reservation recommendation list, I see only instance types. I dont know on which accounts these instances work and whom I should follow up in regards to reservations. Please add Account ID or Account names in the recommendation list.
12 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Delivered

Commitment Support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Only the compute costs are included with a reservation. A reservation doesn't cover software, networking, or storage charges associated with the PostgreSQL Database servers. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers ...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Delivered