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Commitment Support for AWS Database Savings Plans

AWS has introduced Database Savings Plans, a commitment-based discount model that reduces eligible managed database costs by up to 35% with an hourly $/hour commitment over a 1-year term, automatically applying each hour to eligible database usage...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 3 Planned for future release

GCE Commitment Support for Additional Machine Types

G2, Nvidia L4, and Nvidia T4 are seemingly not yet supported. All machines types should be supported across both GCP Compute Engine CUDs and Flex CUDs.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Add Forecast Details Tab next to Summary and Actuals tabs in the Variance Analysis Variance Driver and Comments screen

The Variance Analysis Variance Driver and Comments screen currently includes a Summary tab and Actuals tab. The Summary tab is a waterfall of Budget to Forecast by the selected dimension, but users would like to easily view relevant budget detail ...
2 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Submitted

Commitment Support for the GPU and SSD portions of GCE CUDs

Today Cloudability Commitments only supports the vCPU and Memory portions of this commitment type.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

AWS Bedrock Reserved Service Tier Support in Cloudability

Recently, AWS announced Reserved Service tiering for Bedrock. Customer would like to see Cloudability support the ingestion of this data in some form in the future for both what they'll have already purchased and plan to purchase for this tier, al...
about 20 hours ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Submitted

Use the value "Actuals" for the Source Plan field for actuals rows appended into forecast plans instead of the forecast plan name

Currently, when a forecast plan is created, actuals rows use the plan name in the Source Plan field (e.g., “FY2025 November Forecast”). To improve clarity between actuals and forecast data, we request that actuals rows appended during plan creatio...
28 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 Planned for future release

Provide Recommendations Tailor to Expiring Commitments

Currently, Cloudability doesn’t allow users to get recommendations for more commitments if there’s already a plan in place, even if it’s about to expire. It would be helpful if Cloudability could make recommendations for Savings Plans / other comm...
24 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Planned for future release

Reserved Coverage Rate metric needs to include Azure's MS Fabric

We have dashboard widgets to surface our Reserved Coverage Rate. We recently purchased large reservations for Microsoft Fabric and the Reserved Coverage Rate never increased. We subsequently learned that Fabric was not included in the Metric.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

VAT Feature, but Allocated in the Monthly Forecast Columns

The enhancement would work like the VAT feature but would adjust the monthly forecast by the tax adjusted amount. For example, the contract’s location is selected, the rate is multiplied by the contract amount, then the new tax adjusted contract a...
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Commitment Support for Azure AI Foundry Provisioned Throughput

All available commitment types should be included in the list of purchased commitments My company is using "openai_provisioned_throughput" as a way of savings on AI usage. Currently those reservations are not listed in Cldy making it difficult for...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 2 Future consideration