Commitment Types in Cloudability
As of now, 18 commitments types are supported in Cloudability across the three major cloud vendors. The following tables display the details.
AWS Supported Commitment Types
| Category | Type | Billed | Purchased in | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resource | EC2 Reserved Instance | Hourly use-it-or-lose-it | Units | Instance type, region, OS |
| RDS Reserved Instance | Hourly use-it-or-lose-it | Units | Region, database engine | |
| Redshift Reserved Nodes | Hourly use-it-or-lose-it | Nodes | Node type, region | |
| Elasticache Reserved Nodes | Hourly use-it-or-lose-it | Nodes | Node type, region, OS | |
| Spend | Compute Savings Plan | Hourly use-it-or-lose-it | Hourly cost | Apply to EC2 across instance family, size, AZ, Region, OS or tenancy, and also apply to Fargate or Lambda. |
| EC2 Savings Plan |
Hourly use-it-or-lose-it |
Hourly cost | Instance family and region | |
| SageMaker Savings Plan | Hourly use-it-or-lose-it | Hourly cost | Apply regardless of instance family, size, AZ, AWS Region, or components. |
Azure Supported Commitment Types
| Category | Type | Billed | Purchased in | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resource | Compute Reserved Instance | Hourly use-it-or-lose-it | Quantity | Instance type, region, OS |
| SQL Reserved Instance | Hourly use-it-or-lose-it | Quantity | Perf tier, region, deployment type | |
| Cosmos DB Reserved Capacity | Hourly use-it-or-lose-it | Reserved Units (RU/s) | Tier | |
| Synapse Analytics Dedicated SQL Pools | Hourly use-it-or-lose-it | Data Warehouse Units (DWUs) | Region | |
| Cache for Redis Reservations | Hourly use-it-or-lose-it | Nodes (analogous to total cache capacity | Node type, region, OS | |
| Spend | Compute Savings Plan | Hourly use-it-or-lose-it | Hourly cost | Scope Type |
| Databricks Prepurchase Plans |
Fungible Credits across term |
1 DBU = $1 | Instance family and region | |
| Synapse Analytics Prepurchase Plans | Fungible Credits across term | 1 SCU = $1 | Applicable across 7 products |
GCP Supported Commitment Types
| Category | Type | Billed | Purchased in | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resource | Compute Engine CUDs | Hourly use-it-or-lose-it | vCPU*, Memory*, Local SSD Disk, GPU | Machine type, region |
| Spend | Compute Engine Flex-CUDs | Hourly use-it-or-lose-it | Hourly on-demand equivalent | Machine type |
| Cloud SQL CUDs |
Hourly use-it-or-lose-it |
Hourly on-demand equivalent | Instance family and region |
To request support for an additional type, please add or upvote an idea on our community (IBM Ideas) or contact your account representative. Choose Rate Optimization as the category for the idea.