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Rate Optimization (Commitments)

Enable Azure Disk Reservation Recommendations within Commitments

Extend the Commitments capability in Cloudability to include Azure Managed Disk reservation recommendations. The feature should analyze disk usage patterns, identify consistently utilized disks eligible for one-year reservation terms, and provide ...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Submitted

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...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

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...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

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...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Submitted

Insight in commitment recommendations for business units

Currently commitment recommendations and portfolio can only be viewed if they are tied to a view that segregated by account. However business units are not always segregated by account or have multiple accounts. If you then want to view the portfo...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Submitted

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...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Submitted

Add Payer ID and Payer Name as dimensions available in rightsizing, commitments, and utilization reporting

Please expose Payer ID and Payer Name as first-class dimensions across rightsizing, commitments, and utilization reporting. This would let enterprises with multiple AWS organizations or consolidated billing structures segment and compare recommend...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing)

Add Business Dimension as a Filter/Column in Commitment Recommendations

As a business, we require greater visibility into potential reservation opportunities beyond the current payer account or individual account level. Specifically, there is a need to analyze and segment reservation recommendations across internal hi...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Submitted

Vendor Commitment burn-down tracking. Commitment> Budget> Spend calibration

Here at Sherwin Williams, we have a large number of commitments to spending on cloud products. We've built an ApptioBI dashboard that supports entering start>end dates, total commitment amount, and monthly spend. However, we have not found a wa...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Needs more information

Commitment Support for Microsoft Fabric

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

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