Analyze data for your Reserved Instances

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With Cloudability Reservation Portfolio, we make it easy to understand and optimize your reservations. Simply select a date range and we'll show you any RIs that were active during that time. You can filter to reservations that were purchased in a particular account. If you have custom pricing calibrated in the application, you can also tease out how much you saved net of custom pricing discounts.

The Reservation Portfolio provides quick and easy visibility into:

  • Inventory of owned services across vendors.
    • AWS: EC2, RDS, RedShift, ElastiCache
    • Azure: Compute, SQL, Cosmos DB, Synapse Analytics Dedicated SQL Pools (Synapse DWU), Synapse Analytics Pre-purchase Plans (Synapse SCU)
    • Google Cloud Platform: Compute Committed Use Discounts (CUDs)
  • Summary key performance indicators (KPIs) for all or a subset of owned resources
  • Multiple reservation types including convertible and region-scoped reservations
  • Recently retired and expired reservations and commitments
  • All pending RIs (and failed RIs) to identify areas for troubleshooting
  • .csv export for sharing and/or further analysis

For how to use the Reservation Portfolio with AWS Reserved Instances, see View and analyze your data for AWS Reserved Instances .

For how to use the Reservation Portfolio with AWS Savings Plans, see View and analyze data for your AWS Savings Plans .

View and analyze data in the Reservation Portfolio

Accessible from the Insights menu in the main navigation, the Cloudability Reservation Portfolio provides visibility into Reservations and Commitments for multiple cloud vendors and services in one convenient location.

Within the Portfolio , respective of your account structure, you have the flexibility to filter and/or sort commitment resources by name, ID, type, quantity, location, utilization, achieved savings and maybe most importantly expiration date, helping to avoid unwelcome surprise expense spikes resulting from gaps in coverage.

The Reservation Portfolio also lets users subscribe to alerts, providing the proactive notification of assets that are about to expire.

How much have I saved from buying RIs?

Use the Net Savings column to answer this question. We show the difference between (1) what you would have paid on-demand for the hours (or fractional hours) that you used and (2) what you did pay based on the reservation. Note that if this is negative, you lost money as a result of buying an RI.

How much more could I save with my existing RIs?

Use the Unrealized Savings column. We show how much additional savings would be available assuming the 100% utilization of a particular RI.

Where and how effectively is a particular RI being used?

Use the Details button. We show both the daily net savings as well as the units purchased and used. This is also where you can find a variety of additional details about a reservation.

Note that we also offer a toggle to Show Lifetime which allows you to see how well a particular RI was used over the entire purchase span. This can be especially helpful to see when infrastructure changes occurred, which changed how much of an RI was being consumed.

Lastly, we link to a report so that you can dig deeper to see where an RI is being applied. By default, we'll show you RI allocation by account, but many customers find value in using a Collection/Tag (to show RI allocation by Business Unit), Instance Size (to see what instance sizes an ISF reservation was applied to) or Resource ID (to see the individual instances).

Frequently asked questions

How do I reconcile this with the Underutilized tab in RI Planner?

The RI Planner shows the Reservations (or parts thereof) that would be underutilized after performing the various buy and modify recommendations that would maximize total savings across your entire RI portfolio.

On the other hand, the Portfolio is backward looking, and shows the proportion of the committed hours for a particular RI that actually were consumed, which we call Utilization .

Because the Portfolio and the Planner are different tools that perform different operations, it's entirely possible that you might have 90% Utilization for a particular RI in the Portfolio, but because of other recommendations that we make in the Planner, we would show 50% of the units in the RI as underutilized in the Planner.

What's the difference between units and counts?

Counts refers to the number of instances in a reservation, while Units refers to normalized instance hours. This is relevant for RIs that can be applied to multiple instance sizes within a family. This also helps you to reason about the overall size of an RI, so that a reservation of 5 instances of m4.large (Count of 5, Units of 20) doesn't appear larger than a reservation of instances of 4 m4.16xlarge (Count of 4, Units of 512).

Why does my savings decrease when I look at Adjusted cost?

Custom pricing often shifts the savings from an RI to custom pricing. To use a simple example, if an instance cost $1/hour and the reservation costs $0.80/hour, a fully-utilized reservation of 10 instances would provide $48 of savings per day (10 x 24 x $0.2).

If you have a custom pricing agreement that gives you 10% discount for compute instances, your savings for this would effectively drop to $43.20 per day (10 x 24 x $0.18).

Why does savings/utilization change when I select a view?

The portfolio supports Account Group based views. However, when you select a view, we filter to both where a reservation is owned as well as where a reservation is applied. If your team purchases RIs within a linked account and want to see how much of the RI was consumed by your team, you can do that with a view.

If you just want to see RIs that were owned in a particular account, use the Account filter on the main page.