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Nov201921

Update to AWS Savings Plans Support

We were proud to announce initial support for AWS Savings Plans upon launch. Since then, the following reports have been updated with additional support as follows:

Cost History Report

Savings from AWS Savings Plans will follow the EC2 Compute costs covered, enabling your chargeback and showback workflows just like Reserved Instances for one seamless experience. But wait there’s more… Savings Plan - Upfront charges and Savings Plan - Unused Fees are visible in the Cost History Report as their own unique line items and are available in Cost Reallocation. Essentially, you can now track and manage fees and how savings are applied by AWS Savings Plans in a similar manner you are used to from Reserved Instances.

Costs by Perspective Group - inclusive of Savings Plan fees and savings

Example view including new Cost History Report Dimensions

AWS Savings Plan Support for the EC2 Instance Cost & Usage Report — Coming Soon

The EC2 Instance Cost & Usage Reports will fully support AWS Savings Plans and will include a new measure called “Coverage Type” that breaks down your EC2 cost or usage by:

  • EC2 Savings Plan

  • Compute Savings Plan

  • Standard RI

  • Convertible RI

  • On-Demand

  • Spot

The existing “Reservation Type” measure will now include AWS Savings Plans coverage in addition to Reserved Instance coverage (e.g. All Upfront will show All Upfront RIs and Savings Plans coverage). This unlocks new views such as Coverage Type by Instance Family, filtering existing reports by coverage type, and more.

AWS Savings Plans Asset Report — Coming Soon

Next week, we will be adding categorization, tagging, and inventory support for Savings Plans. CloudHealth will collect asset inventory data for Savings Plans every 15 minutes. Type, state and other details will be available in the Savings Plans Asset Report.

Reminder — Action Required: We require you to update your IAM policy for this service. Please add the following lines to your IAM policy:

  • savingsplans:DescribeSavingsPlans

For more details on how to do this, please visit our Help Center.

Learn more about CloudHealth’s support for AWS Savings Plans in this Help Center article. If you would like to discuss AWS Savings Plans with our Strategic Savings Desk team, please reach out to cht-savingsdesk@groups.vmware.com.

Support for Additional AWS Services — Coming Soon

Last updated on November 21, 2019

As previously announced, we have developed a more comprehensive approach for extracting asset attributes from bills to allocate costs for AWS services using AWS and CloudHealth tags. Next week, we will be updating costs for the following services:

  • AWS Data Sync

  • AWS Firewall Manager

  • AWS Amplify

  • Amazon QuickSight

  • Amazon FSx

  • AWS Step Functions

  • AWS Global Accelerator

  • AWS DynamoDB Backups

  • AWS Transfer for SFTP Servers

Currently, these costs are lumped into the indirect cost item - ‘Other’. Going forward, costs associated with these services will be distributed into the following direct charges:

  • DataSync

  • Firewall Manager - Policies

  • Amplify - Build & Deploy

  • Amplify - Hosting

  • QuickSight - Reader

  • FSx - Backup

  • FSx - Data Transfer

  • FSx - Storage

  • FSx - Throughput

  • Step Functions - State Transition

  • Global Accelerator - Fixed Fee

  • Global Accelerator - Data Transfer

  • DynamoDB - Backup

  • Transfer for SFTP - Endpoint

  • Transfer for SFTP - Data Transfer

And the following indirect charges:

  • DataSync - Other

  • Firewall Manager - Other

  • Amplify - Other

  • QuickSight - Author

  • QuickSight - Other

  • FSx - Other

  • Step Functions - Data Transfer

  • Step Functions - Other

  • Global Accelerator - Other

  • Transfer for SFTP - Other

For the services mentioned above, we will be using AWS Tags, CloudHealth Tags, and Resource Id for cost and asset allocation. This allocation will be applicable to the past 13 months.

Learn more about supported AWS services in this Help Center article.