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Workload Optimization (Rightsizing)

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Add additional timeline 60 days, 90 days to Rightsizing recommendations

Users would like to have a better understanding of their workload utilisation (containers in particular) before being able to make a decision to rightsizing. Additional timeline options such as 60days & 90days would be helpful for them to make...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Under review

Request for ec2 permissions be added: DescribeInstances permission to be provided for all AWS linked accounts, which would be needed to determine whether a given instance was explicitly terminated.

The client was experiencing an issue with the recommendations that Cloudability shows. In the Optimize section there is a subsection called Rightsizing, which is where we can see the optimization recommendations based on the resources we have in t...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Functionality already exists

To have the rightsizing preferences available for an end user in his session only

To have the rightsizing preferences available for an end user in his session only
5 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

When a container as no upper limit for scaling, the rightsizing page shows 0 as a limit. N/A would be more appropriate

When a container as no upper limit for scaling, the rightsizing page shows 0 as a limit. N/A would be more appropriate
5 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Cloudability rightsize comment filter

Cloudability rightsize comment filter
6 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Rightsizing recommendations for Aurora I/O Optimised to Standard

Include I/O cost as part of the RDS recommendations Rightsizing support to make recommendations to move from Aurora I/O Optimised to Aurora Standard
6 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Effective cost basis in Rightsizing explorer

We would like to be able to switch between on-demand and effective cost basis in the Rightsizing Explorer pane. This is possible as part of the various rightsizing panel (e.g. AWS EC2, EC2 ASG, RDS) but not in the consolidated explorer view. This ...
23 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Recommendations for instance scheduling

One way to reduce costs is to allow for instance scheduling to downsize ASGs or power off instances during periods that the system is not being used. Customers would like to be able to view recommendations for workloads that can save money by inve...
17 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Hide recommendations filter for UI

Currently we can filter the application to show rightsizing recommendations for compute over a certain amount. We'd like to see more elaborate filter options that apply to all right sizing categories like: 1) An amount threshold that applies to al...
19 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Exclude Rightsizing Recommendations if current workload is on latest generation

Currently rightsizing recommendations are providing recs that contain older generation (but are "current generation") than the current instance. For example, current instance is running on r7g but rightsizing is recommending r6g.
11 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review