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Workload Optimization (Rightsizing)

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Support K8s label based views in Rightsizing.

Being able to provide users with access to only the information relevant to them is important to customers. Customers would like to be able to use K8s label based views to filter to only specific labels in containers. This would filter the list to...
about 2 hours ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

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 6 hours ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

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). ...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Add COIN reporting as a native capability

Cloudability has all of the data to enable COIN reporting natively in the dashboarding and reporting, yet the only way to achieve this today is to take the cost and rightsizing data out of Cloudability to an external tool to join and present it. C...

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
4 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Container recommendations should include recommendations where limits = request for all resources and one where they are not identical.

Customers would like to see recommendations where they can guarantee that the workload will have the resources as well as ones where the ability is variable (limit does not equal requested). Different workloads have different needs. It would be he...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

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...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Improve Rightsizing Preferences

** I'm using EBS as an example, but this would apply for all the services. ** Introduce the capability to customize Amazon EBS volume recommendations in Cloudability’s rightsizing preferences, allowing users to exclude specific EBS volume types (e...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Enable trend analysis of savings by month with filters in Rightsizing ROI

Currently, Rightsizing ROI provides a view of optimization opportunities and realized savings, but it does not allow customers to easily perform month-over-month trend analysis. Customers need to track how rightsizing efforts are contributing to o...
23 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

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...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted