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Workload Optimization (Rightsizing)

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Feature Request – Display Account Name and Account ID in Rightsizing ROI Screen

We would like to request the ability to display the Account Name and Account ID in the Rightsizing ROI screen.
29 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

ServiceNow integration for Rightsizing ROI

While Apptio Cloudability has now removed the Admin role from CldyUser_Script user role for Servicenow integration with rightsizing ROI , Farmer’s has identified a concern with the current integration approach, which involves direct access to data...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Filtering options for recommended types

AWS EBS storage type filtering requirement: Need to exclude SC1 storage type from right-sizing recommendations. SC1 proposals create false savings reports that require manual explanation why not going to SC1. So if we can have a filtering option t...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 2 Future consideration

Rightsizing support for MSK clusters

Rightsizing support for MSKAWS MSK: https://aws.amazon.com/msk/ GCP MSK: https://cloud.google.com/managed-service-for-apache-kafka/docs/overview
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Provide Right Sizing Preferences for Databases and/or split by base organisation.

As an Administrator of our Cloudability environment I would like to be able to configure some base preferences for the RightSizing algorithm for use in the Database section (particularly AWS RDS, and certain DBEngines like PostgreSQL and Oracle). ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Filter out GP2 recommendations from Right Sizing

As an Administrator of our Cloudability environment I would like to be able to configure some base Right Sizing preferences to *ignore* all recommendations for AWS GP2 storage. There doesn't appear to be any capability to do that at this time. Aff...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

AWS Fargate service support

We are currently migrating from EC2 to Fargate. Since the functionality is already available in AWS, via the "Compute Optimizer" feature, I would like some advice in Cloudability on how to optimize the capacity of my ECS Fargate tasks. More inform...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Add filters in Rightsizing ROI to separate Deleted/Terminated savings from Rightsizing-only savings

Currently, Rightsizing ROI shows combined savings from all optimization actions. Customers cannot distinguish between savings from rightsizing (downsize/resize) versus decommissioning (delete/terminate). This inflates the ROI picture and makes it ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Add Payback period/break even info for S3 optimization

S3 optimizition often includes moving objects from one storage type to another. This movement incurs a cost. This cost is not part of the optimization recommendation information, but can be a barrier to making a change. Having information on the c...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Rightsizing recommendation support for Elastisearch

I believe that a significant number of customers have considerable spend on key AWS service like Elastisearch. It would be highly valuable to have rightsizing recommendations available for the service to help optimize costs and drive greater effic...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration