Discount optimization
To reduce your cloud costs, Turbonomic can recommend scaling VMs to instance types that are charged discounted rates.
Under most circumstances, when a cloud provider offers a new instance type that is meant to replace an older type, the provider offers it at a lower cost. However, a provider may provide a new instance type with identical costs as the older instance types. If this occurs, and capacity and cost are equal, Turbonomic cannot ensure that it chooses the newer instance type. To work around this issue, you can create an Action Automation policy that excludes the older instance type.
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This chart shows how well you have utilized your current discount inventory. The desired goal is to maximize the utilization of your inventory and thus take full advantage of the discounted pricing offered by your cloud provider.
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This chart shows the percentage of cloud workloads (VMs and RDS database servers) covered by discounts. For VMs covered by discounts, you can reduce your costs by increasing coverage. To increase coverage, you scale VMs to instance types that have existing capacity.
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This chart lists the cloud provider discounts discovered in your environment.
Discount optimization actions are not executed by Turbonomic users. They reflect capacity reassignments performed by your cloud provider.