Commitments Optimization
This report will help you find discountable resources that have zero or partial commitment discount coverage. Reduce cloud spend, where possible, by adjusting commitments replace discountable PAYG rates with discounted commitment rates.
The Priorities bubble chart maps groupings of discountable resources. The grouping is defined by the selected Perspective.
For simplicity, we’ll assume for the remainder of this help article that the selected Perspective is subaccount.
Each bubble represents a subaccount, and the bubble size is proportional to the resource count. The Y axis shows the non-discounted but discount-eligible PAYG costs for the subaccount. The X axis shows the coverage percent, which is a ratio of discounted consumedquantity over total consumedquantity. 100% coverage would mean that all of the consumedquantity was discounted.
consumedquantity is a FOCUS column that measures the billed quantity of a charge description’s metric. For example, a compute charge description for a VM resource type may have an hourly metric, and so consumedquantity measures the billed hours of compute, at either a PAYG or discounted rate.
Use the bubble chart to find the subaccount with most concerning combination of high PAYG cost, low discount coverage percent, and quantity of discountable resources. Mouse-over the bubble to see the detail.
Click on the most concerning bubble to filter the Resource Types table on the subaccount. The table will break down the subaccount PAYG costs and coverage percent by subaccount and resource type. Understanding resource types is critical to optimizing commitments, as different commitment types apply to different resource types and provide different levels of discount.
With the table filtered on the most concerning bubble, assess the table rows to find the resource type with the most concerning combination of PAYG costs, coverage percent, and resource count. PAYG cost is perhaps the most impactful metric here, as higher discountable PAYG costs indicate the greatest savings opportunity.
Now click in the table on the resource type of most concern. This will filter the Resource List table, formulating an actionable list of discountable resources billed at non-discounted PAYG rates during the selected date range. The table includes FOCUS chargedescription, which is vital to understanding the application of discounts because not all charge descriptions for a discountable resource can be discounted. This is especially noticeable for Azure VMs.
Advanced Concepts
Resource discount eligibility is assessed solely from FOCUS data and is based on observation of historical discounting. Depending on filtering selection, the PAYG costs referenced on this page may include non-discountable charge descriptions and are presented as a means to estimate the scale of coverage gaps and optimization opportunities.
Discount eligibility classifications are performed at two levels: by resource type and by charge description. Resource types that have any historical discounting are known to be discountable, and it’s the same for charge descriptions.
There may be no historical discounting observed for emerging charge descriptions for resource types with known historical discounting, for example when commissioning a new size of VM where we know that VMs can be discounted, but we’ve not seen the particular charge description discounted before. In such cases the reporting may include non-discountable charge descriptions (and their PAYG) to ensure that discountable resource types with no charge description discount history are included in the Resource List table and considered in optimization activities.
Setting the Chg Desc Observed filter to “Y” will globally filter the page to only include charge descriptions that have been observed with historical discounting. This will improve accuracy of PAYG costs by excluding unoptimizable charges but will also hide optimisable resources where there is no discount history for any of their charge descriptions, e.g. a new size of VM that's not yet been discounted.