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Right-Size Reporting

Right-size reports are monthly reports that provide customers cost optimization recommendations based on automated checks that are evaluated on a weekly basis - providing tenants with an actionable list of potential waste within their cloud deployments. In addition to your monthly report, customers will be provided a folder on Google Drive that will contain previous reports for your needs. Below you will find an example right-size report, a summary of how to interpret the report, and a detailed description of the checks and potential actions associated.

Interpreting the Report

The Summary tab is the only tab that will always exist. Additional tabs are dynamically added based on your account assessments. On the Summary tab you will find a Summary of Checks and a Summary of Accounts.

Each dynamic tab will display each cloud resource that was identified by the corresponding check and the potential monthly savings that would be realized by eliminating that resource entirely.

Potential Savings are based on removing resources entirely from the account. Ideally when appropriately sized you should be able to achieve 60-80% of this potential savings

Example Right-Size Report

Below is an example of the report that you will be provided on a monthly basis.

Checks and Actions

Checks have predefined metrics and measures that qualify a particular cloud resource as potentially being underutilized or wasteful of cloud spend. These are not adjustable but should provide product owners and teams with a quickly actionable list of cloud spend optimization opportunities.

Below you will find a description of each check and the corresponding potential actions available to you. Each check is evaluated on a weekly basis and may contain cloud resources that have already been decommissioned.

Low Utilization Amazon EC2 Instances

Description

Actions

Underutilized Amazon EBS Volumes

Description

Actions

AWS Lambda Functions with Excessive Timeouts

Description

Actions

AWS Lambda Functions with High Error Rates

Description

Actions

Idle Load Balancers

Description

Actions

Amazon RDS Idle DB Instances

Description

Actions

Underutilized Amazon Redshift Clusters

Description

Actions

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