IBM Cloudability Premium on AWS

Organizations today rely on FinOps principles and practices to stay on top of cloud usage and costs by minimizing waste and maximizing efficiency. Year after year, the State of FinOps report from the FinOps foundation surfaces that though this is the case, getting engineers to take action on rightsizing resources continues to be a top challenge for many organizations.  

A primary driver for this hurdle is that building and executing a strategy for resource optimization and commitment spend coverage can be extraordinarily complex. With holistic reporting, policy -driven  automated rightsizing and workflow capabilities, IBM Cloudability Premium is second to none for scaling cloud cost optimization. 

IBM Cloudability provides rightsizing recommendations with broad coverage for services in AWS and support for containers as well. The solution samples usage data and feeds it into proprietary models backed by over a trillion hours of usage, industry-leading algorithms that consider both the past 10-days as well as past 30-days worth of usage data and include explicit scores for both savings and risk, so teams can run cloud infrastructure with maximum efficiency. Cloudability will also surface instances that may have performance risks and make upscaling recommendations where they may be necessary.  It’s even possible to analyze usage patterns and automate resource parking to reduce costs during predictable periods of no to low utilization. 

Practitioners can quickly decipher optimal rightsizing opportunities build policies to “ignore” undesirable ones via a dynamic and intuitive interface. 

The application works where engineers work by bringing FinOps information into their workflows- actions can be fully automated, automated after approval or assigned as tasks in Jira, Service Now or within Cloudability itself. 

All of these features make IBM Cloudability Premium a complete FinOps solution with advanced capabilities designed to meet practitioners along their AWS cloud journey and advance their practice. Enabled by infusing IBM Cloudability with technology from IBM Turbonomic, the application delivers a set of FinOps capabilities that empower organizations to maximize the value of their cloud strategy while maintaining optimally resourced, high performance cloud applications. 

At a higher level, the previously mentioned workflow automations and integrations streamline collaboration, enabling infrastructure and application teams to work in tandem with automated scaling and placement, leading to more efficient workloads across AWS Cloud, Kubernetes and AI workloads.  

Recently, automated commitment purchasing has been added as well, freeing up critical FinOps resources and delivering savings via AWS reserved instances (RIs) that are not achievable with a manual approach. Organizations can dramatically reduce expensive on-demand usage, avoid wasted commitment hours through term-flexible reservations and maximize savings with three-year discount rates. For additional savings, Cloudability provides an industry leading commitments reporting and recommendation engine for AWS RIs and Savings Plans that simplifies allocating and planning commitment purchasing.  

For the business, Cloudability even tracks the ROI delivered from rightsizing actions and can report on utilization metrics in line with cost data to establish cloud unit economics, translating cloud program costs into the business value delivered. Reporting on savings from commitment purchasing and spot-market utilization are also surfaced to help track and prove the success of FinOps operations.  

By assuring application performance, maximizing savings potential and automating actions, IBM Cloudability Premium supports cross-functional FinOps teams from finance to engineering to product and organizational leadership that need one common data source, advanced optimization capabilities, and extended automation. 

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 Conclusion:

If you are starting you FinOps journey or if you are taking that next step in you FinOps evolution, check out IBM Cloudability premium on the AWS Marketplace, or reach out to your AWS or IBM account team to have a deeper more focused discussion.

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