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Workload Optimization (Rightsizing)

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ROI Policy - S3

As a FinOps practitioner at a large organization, I need to be able to track savings recommendations and actioned savings for all services. At this time, S3 is not a supported by the ROI policy so we are unable to track savings MoM.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

Rightsizing ROI Enhancements - Realized Savings, user experience, & reporting impacts

As a FinOps practitioner responsible for driving FinOps best practice adoption across our organization, and responsible to deliver potential & realized savings metrics to the executives, I require the ability to report on the savings offered &...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Move the Rightsizing preferences from the high admin level to the rightsizing page for each use to chose for himself as a filter

As a big organization Admins we have a lot of accounts under the Cloudability org. and each is in a different place and path in the rightsizing process. We want to enable our user the ability to choose from low level of complication action to high...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Add integration for Dynatrace to ingest granular metrics for Virtual Machine rightsizing

Currently Cloudability supports New Relic and Datadog for VM utilisation metrics - please can you add support for Dynatrace
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Integrate Comments from Service Now Rightsizing Recommendation records back to Cloudability

Its very difficult to get engineers to take action on Rightsizing - this was the number 1 key priority in FinOps for many years up until 2024 - its still very important - having engineers and FinOps working together in one tool is key to getting t...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

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 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Not under consideration

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 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

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
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

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.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Exclude idle time in IOPS and Throughput metrics

Consider excluding idle time when calculating IOPS and Throughput metrics used for recommendations or add it as an optional way to interpret and view recommendations. The current formula used is the sum of read and write operations dived by time p...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration