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View your savings

After enabling Cloud Commitment Management for your organization, you can monitor your savings in the dashboard.

The dashboard provides a comprehensive view of your cost optimizations:

  1. Go to the Commitment Management page (Cloud > Commitment Management).
  2. Select Dashboard > Amazon Web Services.

In the dashboard, you can:

  • See an overview of data from connected AWS accounts in your organization.
  • Filter the entire dashboard on billing account, time, region, and service.
  • View your compute and non-compute effective savings rates (ESR):
    • Compute ESR is the average savings across an entire usage class. The formula for ESR is [net savings]/[on-demand cost equivalent]. Net savings includes the total savings achieved, minus the cost of unused commitments. The usage class is all usage that can be covered by a compute savings plan: non-spot EC2, ECS/Fargate, EKS, and Lambda.
    • Non-compute ESR is the average savings across an entire usage class. The formula for ESR is [net savings]/[on-demand cost equivalent]. This is commitment based. Net savings includes the total savings achieved, minus the cost of unused commitments. The usage class includes RDS, Redshift, ElastiCache, and OpenSearch.
    • Compute ESR with spot is the average savings across an entire usage class. The formula for ESR is [net savings]/[on-demand cost equivalent]. Net savings includes the total savings achieved, minus the cost of unused commitments. The usage class includes all EC2 usage (including spot usage), plus other services that can be covered by a compute savings plan: EC2, ECS/Fargate, EKS, and Lambda.
  • See your savings:

    • Savings over time shows the monthly savings by type (reservations and savings plans). You can filter on the source (CCM, Non-CCM, and all).

      Support savings includes all savings Cloud Commitment Management saved you on AWS Support Plans. AWS provides different support tiers and charges differently for each tier. Cloud Commitment Management retrieves and calculates how much you would spend on support if you weren’t using Cloud Commitment Management. Cloud Commitment Management does not charge customers based on these savings.

      The savings data displayed is the total saved by Cloud Commitment Management and Non-Cloud Commitment Management services from AWS data. This data may differ from the billing data presented in Flexera, retrieved from AWS on the 5th of every month.

      Reserved instance volume discounts are included in savings over time because they also reduce the cost of reservations. Cloud Commitment Management includes these cost reductions in the net savings calculations.

    • Monthly commitments over time shows your reserved instance and savings plan commitments per month, shown by standard, convertible, and pending reservations, plus compute and EC2 savings plans. You can include or exclude recurring fees or show upfront fees from an amortized view. Regardless of the date range you select, this chart will always show the last 6 months and the next 36 months (retroactive commitment data is less reliable). The amortized commitment export is relevant for AWS’s standard pricing and automated EDP customers, not manual EDP customers.

      Export the data as an amortization report (CSV file)

      The export is an amortization report, which breaks down each commitment with the:

      • Amortized Commitment: The amortized amount for the month. If there is no upfront commitment, this will be zero.
      • ARN: The AWS resource name unique to the commitment.
      • Date: The year and month of the amortized amount.
      • Duration: The number of seconds used in the calculation for which the investment should provide discounts with consideration for reserved instance marketplace transactions.
      • Expiration: The expiration date of the commitment.
      • Instance Family or Type: The instance family of the reservation or type of the savings plan.
      • Region: The region in which the commitment was purchased.
      • Upfront Commitment: The basis for the amortized commitment. If there is no upfront commitment, this will be zero.
      • Recurring Commitment: The monthly commitment charge.
      • Total Commitment: Total commitment spend.

    • Commitment details is a table that shows how much you saved by using reserved instances and savings plans. You can filter on the values in any of the fields. You can export the data as a CSV or XLSX file.

      Fields in the table and export file
      • Instance Type
      • Savings Type: COMP SP (compute savings plan), EC2 SP (EC2 savings plan), SAGE SP (Sagemaker savings plan), RI-S (standard reserved instance), or RI-C (convertible reserved instance)
      • Quantity: the number of instances in the batch
      • Service
      • Region
      • OS
      • Start Date: the date the batch of reserved instances was purchased
      • End Date: when the purchase commitment ends
      • Source: if the reserved instances were purchased by Cloud Commitment Management
      • Offering Class: if the reserved instances are standard or convertible
      • Payment Option: how you pay for the reserved instances (all upfront, partial upfront, no upfront payment)
      • Generated Savings: how much the commitment saved over using on-demand instances and reservations, only available from the first month the Cost and Usage report is enabled

    • Commitment usage distribution over time shows the amount of financial commitment that was actually used for savings.

      • You can filter the graph on subaccount ID, commitment ID, and commitment type. You can choose to view the graph by commitment type, commitment, or source.
      • You can filter the table on the values in any of the fields. You can export the data as a CSV or XLSX file.
      Fields in the table and export file
      • Account ID: Account number identifier.
      • Commitment ID: Identifier of the reservation or savings plan. The row and ID will be displayed if they meet the criteria set by the filters.
      • Commitment Type: standard reserved instance, convertible reserved instance, compute savings plan, or EC2 savings plan.
      • Source: CCM or Non-CCM.
      • Equivalent OD Price: The on-demand price during the specified time period.
      • Generated Savings: How much you saved using commitment discounted rates instead of the full on-demand rates. Calculation: On-demand instances subtracted by commitments and the uncovered spend. Not necessarily the same as net savings.
      • $ Used: The total equivalent cost within the time range multiplied by the utilization.
        • Example 1: If the time range covered the entire term of the reservation, it was 100% utilized, and the total equivalent cost was $1000, the result would be $1000.
        • Example 2: If the time range was half the history of the same reservation, it would be $500.
        • Example 3: If it was only 50% utilized during that period, it would be $250.
        • Example 4: If the term of the RI is three years and only one year of the period has passed since it was purchased, it would be possible to show only 33.3% of the total equivalent cost in this field, at maximum.
      • % Used: Utilization within that time period.