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Workload Optimization (Rightsizing)

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Adding recomendations for SQL Instances and Memorystore for GCP

Helps reduce cost for SQL and Redis usage in GCP by identifying overprovisioned and stale resources.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

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 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

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 ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

Provide container rightsizing recommendations for Karpenter nodepools similar to what is provided for ASG nodes

Karpenter is becoming an industry standards, my customers want container rightsizing recommendations for Karpenter node pools.
25 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Rightsizing opportunities for Azure Recovery Services

Customer would like to request the addition of rightsizing optimisation capabilities for Azure Recovery Services (ASR). This feature would allow customers to automatically evaluate and recommend optimal virtual machine (VM) sizes and configuration...
26 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Adding sustainability metrics to rightsizing recommendations

There is strong evidence industry wide that a large percentage of engineers are more likely to take action based off carbon emission reduction recommendation than cost. ( largely as engineers may not have a budget responsibility as part of their r...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Snooze Functionality - ROI Rightsizing Integration & Rightsizing module enhancements

When snoozing rightsizing opportunities within the Rightsizing Module where there is an associated ROI ticket, there is no communication between the two modules to provide indication that the existing ROI ticket has been snoozed. As well, there is...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

The right sizing resources which are displayed should be able to filtered based on the business dimension

When it comes to right-sizing, all the filtering currently happens at the account level, while the information displayed is at the resource level (by resource ID). There needs to be a way to link these two levels so the process becomes more practi...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Functionality already exists

Rightsize action for unattached idle disk behavior similar to AWS

In rightsize disks for Azure, I have found that for unattached and idle disks CLDY could recommend you to rightsize the disk if it is not the lowest-cost SKU while you will get a terminate action if the disk is the lowest-cost SKU.I know that in A...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Do not show already terminated resources in Cloudability Optimize → Rightsizing recommendations

Problem:Right now the resource 'state' is not available in any manner within the optimization rightsizing tooling. This means that resources, such as EC2 instances, that have already been shut down and terminated are still showing the recommendati...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 2 Future consideration