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Workspace Cloudability
Categories Container Reporting
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 27, 2026

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Visibility into container workloads running on Spot Instances across AWS

Background

The customer wants to confirm whether the Insights → Containers section in Cloudability accounts for containers deployed on Spot Instances. Specifically, they need:

  1. A way to identify and filter containers running on Spot capacity directly within the Containers UI.
  2. Documentation or confirmation that Insights currently includes or excludes these workloads.
  3. Accurate reporting validation, because Cloudability Reporting (filtered by Lease Type = Spot) currently returns no results, even though the customer is certain they run container workloads on Spot.

Problem / Gap

1. Containers UI lacks Spot‑based filtering

There is no visible filter or dimension in Insights → Containers that allows customers to identify which containers are running on Spot instances.

2. Reporting does not attribute Spot container workloads consistently

Even though the customer:

  • Filtered by known container services (ECS, EKS, AKS, OKE, ContainerRegistry, etc.)
  • Applied Lease Type = Spot
  • Expected results based on their environment

Cloudability reports returned zero usage, suggesting a possible ingestion, classification, or dimensioning gap.

3. No documentation confirming current behavior

Customers cannot find documentation describing whether:

  • Containers on Spot instances are included in Insights today
  • Spot lease types propagate to container‑level cost allocation
  • Spot attribution varies by cloud provider

Customer Impact

  • Inability to track cost optimization effectiveness on Spot usage. 
  • Potential misclassification of container workloads, leading to incorrect financial insights.
  • Loss of confidence in Cloudability’s container reporting fidelity.
  • Additional manual effort to validate Spot usage outside Cloudability.
Idea priority Urgent

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