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Rate Optimization (Commitments)

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AWS - Add additional RI & SP Metrics

Per Case #00352871, requested to submit Enhancement, as the metrics I need in Cloudability/BI are not available. NetUnblendedCost, ReservationNetEffectiveCost & SavingsPlanNetEffectiveCost
5 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Ability to extract and subscribe to Commitments based on Account name or ID

Data extracts do not contain account name. No way to subscribe to expirations based on account name. would be helpful to have this data available so its easier to manage.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Additional recommendations for GCP and AWS

GCP: Buckets / CloudSQL / BigQuery AWS: Unassociated Elastic IP / LB / PaaS services / Lambda Some recommendations do not take into account all the characteristics of the instance: e.g. T4g (ARM) on AWS without taking into account the specific OS.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Not under consideration

Commitment Support for AWS Dynamo DB Reserved Instances

Standard commitment support for this commitment type.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Better unified savings reporting

Commitment reporting Optimization ROI Reliability UI Filtering Time Selection
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

Optimize: Aggregate all suggestions in one place - including those from vendors

No description provided
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Planned for future release

Effective scope identification for Azure Compute RIs in Commitment Portfolio

Currently, it's not possible to see in Reservation Portfolio what is the scope for a paricular Azure Compute reservation (Subscription or Resource Group). CLDY shows where a reservation has been purchased at the subscription/account level. It woul...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Cloudability/Optimize/Commitment Portfolio - add Payer Id, and Account Id/Name

As a member of a central FinOps team, covering multiple AWS and Azure payer accounts, we would like to be able to filter the Commitment Portfolio by Payer Id and/or the 'hosting' Vendor Account Name / Id that has the purchased items. Currently the...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Planned for future release

Commitment Support OCI

Adding supported commitment types across OCI instances as well. It would help us get commitment recommendations from OCI as well. We have significant amount of spending on OCI as well
5 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 4 Future consideration

Commitment Portfolio - Customer want to set the alerts based on Usage family and Service

Commitment Portfolio - Customer want to set the alerts based on Usage family and Service
5 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration