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Workload Optimization (Rightsizing)

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Request for ec2 permissions be added: DescribeInstances permission to be provided for all AWS linked accounts, which would be needed to determine whether a given instance was explicitly terminated.

The client was experiencing an issue with the recommendations that Cloudability shows. In the Optimize section there is a subsection called Rightsizing, which is where we can see the optimization recommendations based on the resources we have in t...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Functionality already exists

Customizable metric multiplier / threshold for rightsizing recommendation

In some production enviroments, workloads are intentionally overprovisioned to allow for burst capacity, stability or failover requirements.In most cases this is has to do with compliance and regulations bound apps. We propose addig a metric multi...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Show snoozed recommendations comments in API call

When doing an API call for snoozed recommendations a great feature would be to also receive the comments left on the resource as well as the user who left those comments. This can be used as control as well as general understanding of reasons to s...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Add additional timeline 60 days, 90 days to Rightsizing recommendations

Users would like to have a better understanding of their workload utilisation (containers in particular) before being able to make a decision to rightsizing. Additional timeline options such as 60days & 90days would be helpful for them to make...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Provide public API to update Rightsizing ROI tickets or add comments

One of my customer in inquiring if we can enable or consider enabling write access for cloudability API V3. When it comes to rightsizing ROI data, the cloudability API V3 is read only, which is preventing them from adding comments or updating entt...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Effective cost basis in Rightsizing explorer

We would like to be able to switch between on-demand and effective cost basis in the Rightsizing Explorer pane. This is possible as part of the various rightsizing panel (e.g. AWS EC2, EC2 ASG, RDS) but not in the consolidated explorer view. This ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Adding sustainability metrics to rightsizing recommendations

There is strong evidence industry wide that a large percentage of engineers are more likely to take action based off carbon emission reduction recommendation than cost. ( largely as engineers may not have a budget responsibility as part of their r...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Add RDS Customizations to Rightsizing Preferences Page

This would allow for the customization of what recommendations are being made for RDS, either by usage family, costs, etc
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Planned for future release

Filter Enhancement - ROI Rightsizing, Rightsizing - Upgrade Filters

Enhance filters for ROI tickets within the ROI Rightsizing module & from within report module. As a FinOps practitioner required to report on adoption rates & realized savings, I need to be able to: report on ROI tickets actioned during sp...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Broadcom APM inetgration with Apptio Cloudability for Memory Utilization

We are currently using Apptio Cloudability for cloud cost optimization and visibility, and we rely on memory utilization data to generate accurate rightsizing recommendations. As part of this setup, Apptio typically requires CloudWatch Agents or D...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 2 Under review