Savings Plans & Reserved Instance Advisor
Enterprise Feature: The Savings Advisor is available exclusively for Enterprise plan customers. Contact us to upgrade your plan.
The Commitment Advisor analyzes your AWS compute usage patterns and provides actionable recommendations for Savings Plans and Reserved Instances, helping you unlock 20-70% discounts compared to On-Demand pricing.
Implementation Effort: Medium - Estimated time: 2-8 hours. Requires analysis of usage patterns and financial planning before purchasing commitments.
What We Detect
- Underutilized commitments -- Existing Savings Plans or Reserved Instances that are not fully utilized
- Coverage gaps -- Compute spend paid at On-Demand rates that could be covered by commitments
- Service-level gaps -- Per-service breakdown (EC2, Lambda, Fargate, SageMaker, Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache) showing where commitment coverage is low
- Purchase recommendations -- Specific commitment types and amounts based on your usage patterns
Covered Commitment Types
| Type | Services | Flexibility |
|---|---|---|
| Compute Savings Plans | EC2, Lambda, Fargate | High -- any region, family, size |
| EC2 Instance Savings Plans | EC2 only | Medium -- specific family in a region |
| SageMaker Savings Plans | SageMaker AI | Medium -- any region, family, size |
| Database Savings Plans | Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, DocumentDB, Neptune, Keyspaces, Timestream, DMS | High -- any region, engine, family |
| Reserved Instances | EC2, RDS, etc. | Low -- type-specific, resellable |
AWS Organizations Support
| Account Type | Behavior |
|---|---|
| Management Account | Full RI/SP recommendations (org-wide) |
| Member Account | Utilization monitoring + management account reference |
| Standalone Account | Full recommendations |
For comprehensive recommendations in an organization, connect the management account for purchase recommendations and member accounts for utilization monitoring.
Prerequisites
- Enterprise Plan required
- Cost Explorer must be enabled
- Spoke role template v1.2+ (Cost Optimization Hub permissions require v1.3+)
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