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Status Future consideration
Workspace Cloudability
Categories Workload Optimization (Rightsizing)
Created by Guest
Created on May 27, 2026

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Create recomendations that are valid at availability zone level.

Cloudability is recommending a migration to an instance type that isn’t available in the availability zone where the resource currently runs. IBM Support has confirmed this is expected behaviour: Cloudability generates cost-optimisation recommendations at the region level, not the availability zone level, and zone-specific recommendations would require additional product development

For example, a GCE Managed Instance Group (MIG), Cloudability recommends migrating from n1-standard-4 to c4d-highmem-2. While the move to a high-memory profile is reasonable, the recommendation targets the C4D machine family, which is not available in europe-west2-c (the zone used by the referenced resource). As a result, the recommendation is not actionable in its current form because the proposed instance type cannot be deployed in that zone.

We’re seeing an increase in these occurrences and expect further growth, as CSPs are not offering all instance types across every availability zone due to current global challenges.

 

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Sidney Epner
    Jun 1, 2026

    Thanks for the suggestion! We are looking to improve Rightsizing usability this year and this will be something we will take into consideration.

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