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Status Future consideration
Workspace Cloudability
Categories Workload Optimization (Rightsizing)
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 8, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Provide Right Sizing Preferences for Databases and/or split by base organisation.

As an Administrator of our Cloudability environment I would like to be able to configure some base preferences for the RightSizing algorithm for use in the Database section (particularly AWS RDS, and certain DBEngines like PostgreSQL and Oracle). There doesn't appear to be any capability to do that at this time.

We have some use of certain AWS RDS engines, and would like to be able to specify to the RightSizing algorithm to keep to a small set of AWS RDS Instance families. i.e. stick to m6i, r6i, t3a families(but happy to swap between just those 3). This aligns with our use of AWS RDS Reserved Instances purchases, and encourages right sizing to the preferred families.


Background:

There doesn't appear to be any preferences for the Database engines similar to EC2 at all.

 

 

 

Idea priority Low
  • Admin
    Matt Gerow
    Sep 10, 2025

    Thanks for the submission. With Cloudability Premium, you can customize your recommendations via highly flexible policies all backed by the power of the Turbonomic optimization engine.

    We'll monitor for additional input on the need for expanded preference capabilities in Cloudability Standard and Premium

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