AWS S3 Rightsizing – General Availability

We are pleased to announce the general availability of our AWS S3 Rightsizing tool. Simple Storage Service (S3) is a popular cloud object storage service used for common enterprise storage needs such as images, videos, website content, backups, and file sharing.

AWS S3 Rightsizing offers insights and visibility into critical bucket-level attributes and metrics, providing optimization recommendations to move to cheaper, more relevant bucket types based on your usage characteristics. Complete with a new user interface, this feature delivers:

Cost and savings summaries
Relevant informative details for each bucket being used
Ability to drill down into each recommendation to view usage metrics and see up to 3 alternative options
Export recommendations outside of the platform as a CSV file

Recommendations are at the bucket level and consider bucket size & usage characteristics, allowing users to consume recommendations and actions based on the object's needs and impact. For more information, please read the documentation.

Kubernetes (Request-Based) Rightsizing for GCP – General Availability

We are excited to announce the general availability of Kubernetes (request-based) Rightsizing for GCP. This is an addition to the existing capabilities of Kubernetes Rightsizing on AWS & Azure, ensuring the feature is available on three major public clouds. Built on our new framework, Kubernetes Rightsizing provides recommendations for changing container Requests based on usage of CPU and memory, including:

Custom Efficiency Targets: Users can customize these recommendations by setting specific targets for CPU and Memory. Users can choose to use CPU/Memory Averages or Maxes and set a desired range from 1% to 120% for each metric.
Filtering: Users can filter by cluster, namespace, or workload to drill down and look at a sub-set of resources.
FlexOrgs Aware: Kubernetes Rightsizing Recommendations work with FlexOrgs, so users in sub-Organizational Units can only see and act on clusters for which they have permission.

For more information, please refer to the documentation.

AWS Graviton For EC2 Cross-Architecture Recommendations – General Availability

We are happy to announce the introduction of cross-architecture recommendations for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) resources to include the consideration of switching to AWS Graviton processors. Tanzu CloudHeath now supports cross-architecture recommendations and provides you with the best fit AWS Graviton processor option within your set efficiency target.

While switching to AWS Graviton may require architecture changes, adoption of these recommendations can result in higher savings. AWS Graviton is a family of processors designed to deliver the best price performance for cloud workloads running on AWS EC2 instances. AWS Graviton processors are compatible with existing operating systems available in EC2 Amazon Machine Images, such as Amazon Linux 2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, and SUSE.

AWS EC2 Actual Cost in Rightsizing Recommendations – Public Beta

We are excited to introduce the public beta for EC2 Actual Cost in our rightsizing recommendations, which makes “Actual cost” accessible as a cost type. This allows users to view the recommendations based on the following two pricing methods:

List price - View recommendations based on the listed on-demand price for the AWS service/instance.
Actual Cost - View recommendations based on the actual usage cost. The recommendations consider the discounts or pricing impacts on the source instance that result from Reserved Instances, Convertible RIs, and Savings Plans. Any discounts for current instances will be considered within the recommendation.

New FOCUS Templates in FlexReports for AWS, GCP and Azure

We are excited to announce new templates in FlexReports that allow users to create their own FOCUS-compliant cost reports for GCP, AWS and Azure. FOCUS, or FinOps Cost and Usage Specification, is an open-source cloud billing data specification that establishes a unified schema for cloud cost, usage, and billing data across all major cloud service providers.

These templates take the billing data available from these cloud providers and present this data in the unified schema defined by FOCUS. These reports can be exported from the platform and combined to create a FOCUS-compliant multi-cloud cost report with cost data from the clouds in use.

These templates can be accessed by following these links: AWS, Azure, and GCP(platform authentication required). They can also be found by within the platform by following these steps:

Click on FlexReports on the left-hand navigation (under “Reports”)
Click on “View Templates” on the right-hand upper corner of the FlexReports landing page
Search for “FOCUS” in the search bar of the Templates page. This will bring up each of the templates for AWS, Azure, and GCP. Select the template for the cloud needed.
Click on “Filters” to filter based on existing FOCUS-compliant columns.
Filter as many conditions as desired and click Apply when finished (top right corner of the pop-up window).
Export or share the report (top right corner).

Report Calculation Improvements

In order to only calculate exactly what customers need more quickly, Tanzu CloudHealth will no longer pre-calculate reports which have not received usage in over 30 days. A banner will be displayed on reports that have been marked as unused, and a button will allow you to update the data and build the report.