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Rate Optimization (Commitments)

Commitment Support for GCP Cloud Dataflow

Need ability to monitor commitments for ALL the GCP services that are eligible for Commitments, including Cloud Dataflow All GCP Customers using Commitments for Cloud Dataflow Service will benefit from it Enhancement to Cloudability in it's Report...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Submitted

Commitment Support for GCP Vertex AI Provisioned Throughput Reservations

Need ability to monitor commitments for ALL the GCP services that are eligible for Commitments, including Vertex AI All GCP Customers using Commitments for Vertex AI Service will benefit from it Enhancement to Cloudability standard in it's Report ...
2 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...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

Commitment Overview Support for GCP

Hello Team, Currently, the Service Type section within the Overview tab supports AWS services. It would be valuable to extend this capability to include GCP services as well. Adding GCP service visibility would provide a more comprehensive multi-c...

Add Usage Quantity Unit, Resource ID, and Usage Hours to Commitment Portfolio

The customer would like additional consumption-level visibility directly within the Commitment Portfolio/page. The requested fields are: Usage Quantity Unit Resource ID Usage Hours IBM's Commitment Table Basics documentation lists the fiel...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Future 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...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

Custom scenario commitment planning

As a end user, when trying to plan the commitments for the future, having multiple scenarios is quite useful. Currently there is only one available custom scenario and having multiple would permit a better end user experience

Add Coverage Threshold to Commitment Alerts

Currently, commitment alerts only cover expiring commitments and utilization thresholds. However, Coverage is also an important KPI that customers would want to be alerted on. Please consider adding support for Coverage-based alerts as well. Thanks!
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Future consideration

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

Payment Option in Commitment Preferences Settings

In the commitment preferences settings section, I would like to request an additional preference: Payment Option. This would allow customers to default All Upfront, Partial Upfront, No Upfront for their services and/or variants.