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Status Future consideration
Workspace Cloudability
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 19, 2025

Filtering options for recommended types

AWS EBS storage type filtering requirement: Need to exclude SC1 storage type from right-sizing recommendations. 
SC1 proposals create false savings reports that require manual explanation why not going to SC1. 
So if we can have a filtering option to take out SC1 recommendations from EBS right-sizing would be nice. A direct recommendations to ST1 or higher storage types instead of SC1

Idea priority Low
  • Admin
    Matt Gerow
    Oct 9, 2025

    Thanks for the submission - we're always looking for ways to improve the rightsizing experience in Cloudability

    In the meantime, Cloudability Premium offers an incredibly powerful and flexible policy engine which allows users to really tailor recommendations to their specific context/need. It may be worth exploring the Cloudability premium capabilities with your account team to understand that capability set in the mean time.