Cost optimization
Detection of unused and underutilized resources, recommendations for choosing the optimal resources for virtual machines.
Underutilized resources
Many resources do not exceed 1-5% utilization, but the organization pays 100% of their cost. In this case, the product will recommend a less powerful configuration and provide recommendations for CPU and memory that can ensure the correct load of the virtual machine, managed service or database. There are 4 policies available to users for determining resource underutilization: Maximum Economy, Balanced, Maximum Performance and Custom. When selecting the Custom policy, you can select a percentile to be used as a load indicator and a reserve — additional CPU and memory capacity beyond the current load.
Savings calculation
Cloud Advisor calculates possible savings for each of the resources that can be optimized and displays recommendations on how to achieve them.
Unused resources
Cloud Advisor identifies unused resources. For example, virtual machines without any load, old disk images, databases that were created for a purpose but are not currently being used and yet are included in the total bill.
Object storage analysis
Cloud Advisor calculates the amount of data in object storage, allowing you to identify the largest buckets and perform audits to remove obsolete data. The product displays data by storage class, providing the ability to look for optimizations.
Alerts grouping
Cloud Advisor groups alerts by higher-order entities. For example, if virtual machines are underloaded, are nodes of Managed Kubernetes, and are part of the same node group, Cloud Advisor will issue a single "Node group is underloaded" alert for all virtual machines instead of multiple alerts for each virtual machine.
Teamwork
In Cloud Advisor, you can add employees with different visibility and access rights. In this way, each of the employees will only have access to information on possible cost optimization in their part of the infrastructure. At the same time, the manager has the ability to observe savings data for each of the project teams.
Enforcement of FinOps policies
Cloud Advisor provides the ability to formulate and enforce your own rules for using the cloud. For example:
- Resources without a specific tag (e.g., "cost-center" or "owner")
- New virtual machines with number of GPUs/vCPUs > 10
- No more than 50 vCPUs in a project
If the rules are violated, Cloud Advisor will notify the responsible person by email, Telegram or create a task in Jira.