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Rate Optimization (Commitments)

Update Rightsizing Opportunities option beyond 30 days for evaluate resource utilization over longer timeframes

Currently, Cloudability provides Rightsizing Opportunities analysis for only 10-day and 30-day periods. However, these timeframes are quite limited for our requirements and may not capture sufficient historical utilization data to identify all opt...
about 15 hours ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Submitted

Request for Enhanced Azure Savings Visibility in Cloudability

Hi Team, This request relates to the savings calculations and recommendations currently provided by Cloudability. Upon review, we found that for Azure App Service and Microsoft Fabric Capacity, Azure's public APIs do not provide the required list ...
about 15 hours ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Submitted

Reservations recommendations for DynamoDB

The Commitment Recommendations feature in Cloudability does not include the reservation recommendations for DynamoDB. This is required to ensure that we are able to track the DynamoDB recommendations which provides significant cost savings to our ...
4 days 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...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

Enhanced filtering capabilities in Commitment Portfolio

We would like to request enhanced filtering functionality within the Commitment Portfolio to improve usability. Support for IN and NOT IN Operators Enable users to filter records based on multiple values within a single filter condition. Multi-Sel...
25 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Future 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...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Not under consideration

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

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...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Not under consideration

Commitment Support for Microsoft Fabric

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

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...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Future consideration