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Billing & Costs & Discounts

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Discover Spot Rates

As a Turbonomic User and Data Engineer I want to see the billing rate for Spot instances, and pull that data via the Turbo API for custom reports. Currently, if the billing type = bidding, the billing rate is not discovered and exposed anywhere in...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

It would be desirable if multiple currencies could be handled by one Turbonomic

Currently, only one currency symbol can be set, so if AWS (USD) and Azure (Yen) are mixed, it will be confusing. Each time, we create a group just for AWS and refer to that dashboard, which is cumbersome.
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Turbonomic must provide the consistent logic as key summary(text explanation) to Admins for the recommendation action.

The image of "Turbonomic recommendation action" as attached is just an example. Turbonomic is recommending that the current AWS EC2 VM be changed from A type to B type for better resource utilization. However, we can not know why the recommendatio...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 5 Future consideration

Azure savings plans leverage on top of RIs during scaling actions recommendations

challenges leveraging and imposing Savings plans and RIs within the platform. Recommendations on RI skus are great but we would like to enhance the savings plans features use case to our advantage.] Essentially, the ask is to account and compute t...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Planned for future release

Azure Savings Plans for compute (VMs)

Earlier this year Azure came up with Savings plans support for compute. Similar in concept to AWS Savings plans. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/offers/savings-plan-compute/#benefits-and-features Product does not currently support this. ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Planned for future release

Azure offer reservations for Azure CosmosDB. Can we see and recommend CosmosDB reservations please?

Azure offers 65% discounts on COSMOS - this can save the customer a lot of money if properly managed. Turbo could help the client make the right decisions. Rightsize FIRST - then Recommend COSMOS RI SECOND
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Dolar and local currency

In Brazil, for customers who have AWS and another cloud with Azure and GCP, there is a big problem with the numbers displayed. In the latest version of Turbonomic, the local currency for Azure and GCP are default and AWS is necessarily in dollars....
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Pricing adjustments for all clouds

Currently there is a way to input a pricing adjustment for AWS services but not Azure or GCP. It's possible this info is derived another way but the configuration UI is inconsistent.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Deletion Action for Long-Unused Virtual Machines (with unused volume deletion)

I believe that generating a deletion action for virtual machines that haven't been used for a long time could lead to more effective cost reduction. Do we have any plans to implement this? While the instances themselves are shut down using the PAR...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Keep billing data statistics based on the Data Retention policy (currently, it can only display up to 30 days at maximum)

Currently, Cost Breakdown Charts can display data from the last 7 or 30 dayshttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/tarm/8.11.0?topic=types-cost-breakdown-charts On the other hand, according to the Data Retention Policy as whole turbonomic, it is possible to ...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0

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