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Rate Optimization (Commitments)

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To show Savings under Azure Savings Compute plan in commitment portfolio

Customer would like to see the Savings they are making on their account under Commitment Portfolio. As of now, they do see details related to Utilization, Hourly commit and Remaining cost, however having the option to see the savings happening wou...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 2 Planned for future release

Inclusion of Azure Web App in drop down in Commitment Portfolio

The customer has requested to include Azure Web App as an option under drop-down for commitment Portfilio.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 3 Future consideration

Additional Commitment Support - 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 ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Change commitment portfolio to not show incomplete data

Savings Portfolio - daily savings and utilization graphs need to avoid using a red bar for the current day (early morning?). This seemed to me to be a warning to be researched, but instead it was just that the current day's data had not been fully...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Planned for future release

AWS - Add additional RI & SP Metrics

Per Case #00352871, requested to submit Enhancement, as the metrics I need in Cloudability/BI are not available. NetUnblendedCost, ReservationNetEffectiveCost & SavingsPlanNetEffectiveCost
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Ability to extract and subscribe to Commitments based on Account name or ID

Data extracts do not contain account name. No way to subscribe to expirations based on account name. would be helpful to have this data available so its easier to manage.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Visibility on the autoshutdown of instances

Recommendations related to the use of the instances Specify a time slot and check for machines that do not comply with autoshutdown.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Submitted

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.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Submitted

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.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Submitted

Integrate supported instance types for Anthos workloads in rightsizing recommendations

https://support.apptio.com/s/case/5004v00001p2cEDAAY/integrate-supported-instance-types-for-anthos-workloads-in-rightsizing-recommendations List of supported instance types: https://cloud.google.com/anthos/clusters/docs/multi-cloud/aws/reference/s...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Submitted