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Status Submitted
Workspace Cloudability
Categories Workload Optimization (Rightsizing)
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 17, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Expand Optimization and Rightsizing Coverage

Cloudability performs well for traditional optimization areas such as EC2 and RDS, but we continue to identify significant savings opportunities through other tools that Cloudability does not surface. During roadmap reviews we highlighted that external platforms are finding dozens of additional optimization categories that currently require manual discovery

Areas where we would like to see substantially expanded optimization coverage include:

  • EFS
  • FSx
  • Redshift
  • DynamoDB
  • SageMaker
  • CloudWatch
  • Storage optimization
  • Scheduling opportunities
  • Networking optimization
  • Expanded Reservation and Savings Plan purchase recommendations

Our expectation is that Cloudability evolves from primarily focusing on core compute recommendations into a platform capable of identifying optimization opportunities across a much broader set of services. Area’s like EBS recommendations are largely not actionable because they recommend block storage types that are not approved for use in our application environment (hard disks). Under-utilized block storage is completely ignored. (using 10 of 500GB). 

Idea priority High

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