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Workload Optimization (Rightsizing)

Identification of Idle VPC Endpoints

Introduce a rightsizing recommendation that identifies Amazon VPC Endpoints with little or no network activity over a configurable period. The capability would analyze endpoint utilization metrics and highlight idle or underutilized endpoints that...
about 2 hours ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted

Prefer Instances Families with Commitments

Add preferences for compute and DB rightsizing to prefer recommendations which move to an instance family currently covered by commitments. When I don't have commitments for a particular service/region, I would like this preference to be ignored (...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Under review

Upgrade Optimizations

Include Options to upgrade EC2 / servers in the cloud tenants. What is the current older resource version and the recommendation for a newer, more cost effective resource type. This capability is available in AWS portal Compute Optimization Dashbo...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Functionality already exists

Add S3 in Rightsizing ROI

Currently we do not see AWS S3 service under rightsizing ROI feature. This feature would allow customers to automate the ticket creation for S3 service.
9 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Future consideration

Add more information to Autoscale recommendations

Cloudability is generating Autoscale savings recommendations even when the suggested configuration shows no change (the From and To values are identical). This can be misleading, as it appears there’s nothing to implement despite an associated sav...
19 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Not under consideration

Add recommendations for rightsizing Compute within same instance family

In the Cloudability rightsizing module, each resource ID typically receives 3–5 recommendations, which appear to be ranked by estimated savings and risk. However, in many of the tickets we’ve reviewed, the tool does not suggest downsizing within t...
19 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Functionality already exists

AWS EFS (Elastic File Storage) recommendations

Can AWS EFS be considered (if possible) as an additional service in the Rightsizing / Optimization engine. A possible review mechanism would be limited IO or other read/write operations being made against Provisioned Throughput storage, advising u...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Future consideration

Create recomendations that are valid at availability zone level.

Cloudability is recommending a migration to an instance type that isn’t available in the availability zone where the resource currently runs. IBM Support has confirmed this is expected behaviour: Cloudability generates cost-optimisation recommenda...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Future consideration

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...

Rightsaving Policies for less than a dollar of savings

Mayo Clinic has several rightsizing Requests that have less than $1 of savings, while these are small, adding up this could lead to thousands of missed savings
26 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Functionality already exists