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Search results: Workload Optimization (Rightsizing)

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Provide public API to update Rightsizing ROI tickets or add comments

One of my customer in inquiring if we can enable or consider enabling write access for cloudability API V3. When it comes to rightsizing ROI data, the cloudability API V3 is read only, which is preventing them from adding comments or updating entt...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Add Payback period/break even info for S3 optimization

S3 optimizition often includes moving objects from one storage type to another. This movement incurs a cost. This cost is not part of the optimization recommendation information, but can be a barrier to making a change. Having information on the c...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Snooze Functionality - ROI Rightsizing Integration & Rightsizing module enhancements

When snoozing rightsizing opportunities within the Rightsizing Module where there is an associated ROI ticket, there is no communication between the two modules to provide indication that the existing ROI ticket has been snoozed. As well, there is...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Rightsizing ROI Enhancements - Realized Savings, user experience, & reporting impacts

As a FinOps practitioner responsible for driving FinOps best practice adoption across our organization, and responsible to deliver potential & realized savings metrics to the executives, I require the ability to report on the savings offered &...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Recommendations for instance scheduling

One way to reduce costs is to allow for instance scheduling to downsize ASGs or power off instances during periods that the system is not being used. Customers would like to be able to view recommendations for workloads that can save money by inve...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Allow people to close multiple RightSizing ROI Tickets in one go

As an owner/tracker of many RightSizing ROI tickets I would like to be able to close a group of them in one go. I currently have to visit each in turn. When I have 10's of them to close, all with small values it is very labour intensive.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Request for Policy limit Increase and Consolidation Option

We are unable to create a new policy for rightsizing because we have reached the policy limit target (30 policies). we have multiple Line of Business (LOBs), and each LOB requires three policies-one for each service: Compute, Disk, and SQL. We kin...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

The Rightsizing Jira integration should reference issue_id not issue_key to ensure linking connection.

Sometimes a Jira ticket for a rightsizing opportunity is created on one board and then it is determined another team needs to own the work so the Jira ticket is moved to that teams board. If this happens the integration back into Cloudbaility for ...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Integrate Comments from Service Now Rightsizing Recommendation records back to Cloudability

Its very difficult to get engineers to take action on Rightsizing - this was the number 1 key priority in FinOps for many years up until 2024 - its still very important - having engineers and FinOps working together in one tool is key to getting t...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Exclude idle time in IOPS and Throughput metrics

Consider excluding idle time when calculating IOPS and Throughput metrics used for recommendations or add it as an optional way to interpret and view recommendations. The current formula used is the sum of read and write operations dived by time p...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration