Discounts

Turbonomic analysis takes advantage of cloud provider discounts to calculate optimal workload placement and to arrive at the best possible costs for your deployments on the cloud.

The following table describes the current level of support for the different cloud provider discounts. Discounts that are not listed are not supported.

Discount Discovered Considered in analysis
AWS EC2 Reserved Instances (RIs) Yes Yes
AWS Compute Savings Plans Yes Yes
AWS RDS Reserved DB Instances Yes No
Azure reservations Yes Yes
Azure savings plans Yes No
Google Cloud committed use discounts Yes Yes

The Cloud View in the Homepage includes the following charts that show discount data:

  • Discount Inventory

    This chart lists the cloud provider discounts that you have purchased for your workloads.

  • Discount Utilization

    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.

  • Discount Coverage

    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.

  • Potential Savings

    Turbonomic can recommend purchasing instance types at a discounted rate to help you increase the percentage of VMs covered by discounted pricing and reduce on-demand costs. This chart shows your pending purchases. Download the list of purchases and then send it your cloud provider or representative to initiate the purchase process.

    Note:

    Currently, Turbonomic can recommend purchasing AWS EC2 RIs and Azure reservations, but only in plans. Purchase actions are not generated in the real-time market and therefore do not show in Action Center.