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Rate Optimization (Commitments)

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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.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Not under consideration

Better unified savings reporting

Commitment reporting Optimization ROI Reliability UI Filtering Time Selection
6 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
6 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Planned for future release

Commitment Support for Azure Backup

A capacity reservation lowers storage costs of backup data in a Recovery Services Vault. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and ask where the additional reserved instance recommendations ar...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 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
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Pre-Purchase Plan

It is a different kind of commitment that should also be visible in Cloudability.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure NetApp Files

A capacity reservation covers matching capacity pools in the selected service level and region. When using capacity pools configured with cool access, only "hot" tier consumption is covered by the reservation benefit. Azure offer 30 different RI t...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure Managed Disk Reservations

A reservation only covers premium SSDs of P30 size or greater. It doesn't cover any other disk types or sizes smaller than P30. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and ask where the addition...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure Dedicated Host

Only the compute costs are included with the Dedicated host. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and ask where the additional reserved instance recommendations are. If we dont build this log...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure Data Explorer

A reservation covers the markup charges. A reservation doesn't apply to compute, networking, or storage charges associated with the clusters. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and ask wher...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration