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Rate Optimization (Commitments)

Expose Waste for GCP Resource‑based Committed Use Discounts (RCUDs) in Cloudability Reporting

Currently, it's not possible to accurately identify waste for GCP RCUDs in Cloudability reporting. This is due to limitations in how GCP exposes RCUD data via a credit‑based billing model, which prevents waste from being derived in the same way as...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Not under consideration

Ability to create tickets for RI Recommendations (Similar to rightsizing) - SNOW Integration

Ability to create tickets for RI Recommendations (Similar to rightsizing) - SNOW Integration
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Not under consideration

Commitment support for migration from Azure EA to MCA Account

Start date & reporting period: Because Azure doesn't transfer historical billing data during an EA→MCA migration, Cloudability re-derives migrated reservations' start dates from the first records seen under the MCA account rather than the orig...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Not under consideration

Additional recommendations for GCP and AWS

GCP: Buckets / CloudSQL / BigQuery AWS: Unassociated Elastic IP / LB / PaaS services / Lambda Some recommendations do not take into account all the characteristics of the instance: e.g. T4g (ARM) on AWS without taking into account the specific OS.
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Not under consideration

Please ensure we can retrieve commitment recommendations through the API (and into dashboards and ApptioBI reporting)

We want to create an overview of total commitment savings into a default report. It appears we can not get all recommendations. Documentation only mentions AWS. Also the right sizing recommendations can not be viewed in dasboards of ApptioBI. This...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Not under consideration

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