What different types of recommendations are provided?
What different types of recommendations does the software provide?
Description:
The Yotascale™ software provides a number of different categories of recommendations on how to optimize your cloud infrastructure. The following is the list of currently supported recommendations:
Amazon EC2 Recommendations
Amazon EC2
Recommendations
Reserved Instance Purchase Recommendation
The recommendation engine will suggest an optimal number of Reserved Instances to purchase--a number that ensures maximum cost savings and minimum reservation wastage. The user has the option to tweak the recommendations by configuring purchase options (no upfront, partial upfront, full upfront), purchase terms (1-year, 3-year) and other configurations.
Stop or Terminate Amazon EC2 Instances with Minimal utilization
The software will identify which EC2 instances are underutilized and will calculate potential savings if those instances were not in active usage.
Rightsize Amazon EC2 Instances
The rightsizing recommendation provides suggestions on which EC2 instance families and instance sizes to migrate your existing workloads in order to achieve maximum savings keeping past performance requirements as a minimum threshold.
Amazon RDS Recommendations
Amazon RDS
Recommendations
Reserved Instance Purchase Recommendation
The recommendation engine will suggest an optimal number of Reserved Instances to purchase- a number that ensures maximum cost savings and minimum reservation wastage. The user has the option to tweak the recommendations by configuring purchase options (no upfront, partial upfront, full upfront), purchase terms (1-year, 3-year) and other configurations.
Stop or Terminate Amazon RDS Instances with no activity
The software will identify which RDS instances are underutilized and will calculate potential savings if those instances were not in active usage. The criteria used to determine potential candidates is the connection count metric.
Downsize Amazon RDS Instances that have low utilization
The software will recommend smaller RDS Instance sizes if it deems that your workload will fit without taking a performance hit.
