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Status Functionality already exists
Workspace Cloudability
Categories Workload Optimization (Rightsizing)
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 27, 2025

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Request for ec2 permissions be added: DescribeInstances permission to be provided for all AWS linked accounts, which would be needed to determine whether a given instance was explicitly terminated.

The client was experiencing an issue with the recommendations that Cloudability shows. In the Optimize section there is a subsection called Rightsizing, which is where we can see the optimization recommendations based on the resources we have in the cloud. The situation is that he has some recommendations where the resources no longer exist (these resources are created in one day and on the same day they are deleted, also sometimes the resources are created in one day and after three or five days they are deleted), however they continue to appear for these resources. This happens for AWS, Azure and GCP resources. 

We are looking for to exclude these recommendations and only take those with current resources.

For the above reason, we request, based on the support response, that the request for ec2 permissions be added: DescribeInstances permission to be provided for all AWS linked accounts, which would be needed to determine whether a given instance was explicitly terminated.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Mar 4, 2025

    Hello, I believe there is already a setting available for this. Under the Settings menu, go to Rightsizing Preferences. On that page there is a setting for "Resource Lifespan". Setting that value to 1, for example, will exclude recommendations for resources that have been inactive for 1 day.

    By default, our Compute recommendations (EC2 / Azure Compute / GCP) currently include all resources that existed at any time in the lookback period (10 or 30 days) and for which money-saving recommendations can be provided. The primary reason we do this is that including all resources with potential savings gives the customer a complete picture of the total cost/savings that would have been possible in the time period if all resources that existed during the period had been terminated or sized as recommended. In particular, this helps identify the full cost / savings of short-lived instances that may be automatically created through various automated mechanisms.

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