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Rate Optimization (Commitments)

Aggregate Azure Commitments totals across billing accounts

When I go to Azure Commitment Recommendations, I do not have a clear view of the potential savings Commitments can provide similar to AWS and GCP. Billing accounts are not aggregated and there is no way to do so. This is an inconsistent experience...

Commitment Support for AWS Database Savings Plans

AWS has introduced Database Savings Plans, a commitment-based discount model that reduces eligible managed database costs by up to 35% with an hourly $/hour commitment over a 1-year term, automatically applying each hour to eligible database usage...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

Commitment Support for Azure Database Savings Plans

Publicly announced today, this new commitment type offers up to 35% savings across a range of database services. See: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/finopsblog/announcing-savings-plan-for-databases-flexible-savings-for-modern-evolving-wo...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

Add Payer ID and Payer Name as dimensions available in rightsizing, commitments, and utilization reporting

Please expose Payer ID and Payer Name as first-class dimensions across rightsizing, commitments, and utilization reporting. This would let enterprises with multiple AWS organizations or consolidated billing structures segment and compare recommend...

Vendor Commitment burn-down tracking. Commitment> Budget> Spend calibration

Here at Sherwin Williams, we have a large number of commitments to spending on cloud products. We've built an ApptioBI dashboard that supports entering start>end dates, total commitment amount, and monthly spend. However, we have not found a wa...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Needs more information

Expose Waste for GCP Resource‑based Committed Use Discounts (RCUDs) in Cloudability Reporting

Currently, it's not possible to accurately identify waste for GCP RCUDs in Cloudability reporting. This is due to limitations in how GCP exposes RCUD data via a credit‑based billing model, which prevents waste from being derived in the same way as...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Submitted

Azure VM RI(compute) pricing visibility with current on demand and fixed hourly rates

Also related to the case: TS022037625 Description: Currently, the Total Net Savings shown in the Commitment Portfolio is calculated based on the latest on demand pricing retrieved from Azure. Since on demand prices can change over time, this cause...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Future consideration

Commitment Support for Microsoft Fabric

Commitment Support for Microsoft Fabric
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Future consideration

Commitment Management 2.0 for Azure Commitment Recommendations

The commitment recommendations functionality in AWS and GCP is great. I would like to see this supported in Azure.
9 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

Commitment Support for GCP Agent Platform (Vertex AI) Provisioned Throughput

Vertex AI spend is increasing and there is a need to optimize it. Provisioned Throughput commitments offer a major discount off on-demand: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/provisioned-throughput-on-vertex-ai Notably, Vert...