Resize resources with Rightsizing

Gain better visibility of resource usage by identifying your over-provisioned or underused resources, configuring rightsizing operations, implementing rightsizing recommendations, and performing various rightsizing operations.

You can configure Rightsizing operations by selecting Settings.

Chart	Description
Total potential savings by service category	Total savings to expect if all rightsizing recommendations are applied by service category such as Compute, Database, and Storage.
Total potential savings by change group	Total savings to expect if all rightsizing recommendations are applied by change group such asChange Management and Application Development.

Recommendations tab	Description	Available actions on selected recommendations
New	Resources that are candidates for Rightsizing. Each successful execution of a Billing Download job triggers the Rightsizing jobs to analyze spend and usage data and to update the actionable recommendations in reports.	Exclude Schedule
Scheduled	Resources that are scheduled in Rightsizing jobs.	Reschedule Remove
Declined	Resources that owners didn’t want to resize (declined the change request).	Exclude Reschedule
Completed	Resources that were rightsized by the Rightsizing job.	None
Failed	Resources for which the Rightsizing operation wasn’t successful. For failed attempts, the Rightsizing operation performs a rollback as described in AWS only – Rollback on failed Rightsizing attempts.	Exclude Reschedule
Excluded	Resources that are configured not to be considered for Rightsizing.	Remove from exclusion

Tableau 1. Columns on the New, Scheduled, Declined, Completed, and Failed Recommendations tabs

Column	Description
Configuration item	Unique identifier of the resource.
Monthly savings	Potential savings if the resource is resized to the Recommended size.
Provider	The provider that hosts the resource.
Service category	Lists all service categories from the instance sorted by name.
Cloud service	Lists all cloud categories sorted by  name.​
Current size	Size of the resource that was analyzed for Rightsizing, the size that you’re currently paying for.
Recommended size	AWS: The size that is operationally and cost-wise most appropriate for the resource, based on the analysis of provisioning and usage levels over the last 14 days. Microsoft Azure: Recommendation from the Azure Advisor service.
Override size	Size to use instead of the recommended size. By default, the system uses the Recommended size when Rightsizing. Specify a different size by specifying an Override size.
Rationale	The reason that the system recommends resizing. AWS: Based on Cloud Cost Management analysis of provisioning and usage levels over the last 14 days. Microsoft Azure: Recommendation from the Azure Advisor service.
Confidence	The confidence level in a recommendation. High confidence requires the following conditions: The system has at least 10 days of usage data for the resource. The current and recommended family or generation is identical. Medium confidence requires the following conditions: The system has less than 10 days of usage data for the resource. The current and recommended family or generation is identical. Low confidence: The current and recommended family/generation are different.
Account	The service account that includes the resource. A service account represents a group of related regions in your provider account.
Region	If appropriate for the provider, region in the service account that hosts the resource.
Owned by	Owner of the resource.
Change group	Change group for the resource.
Source	Source of the recommendations. AWS / Azure / GCP: Provider-generated recommendations ServiceNow: Custom-generated recommendations
State	For resources that match an Auto-approval (Standard Change) approval type, status of the change request.
Job	Name of the Rightsizing job that the resource is part of.
Planned date	Date that the job is scheduled to run.
Change request	The change request that is associated with the recommendation.

• Configure Rightsizing operations
  Configure Rightsizing processes and specify the amount of potential rightsizing savings that triggers notifications.
• Schedule resources to be rightsized
  To rightsize a resource, add it to a Rightsizing job and specify when the job should run. You can also move resources out of one scheduled job into a different job or remove a resource from a job.
• Move a resource to a different Rightsizing job
  You can add resources to a currently scheduled job, move resources from one job to another, or remove resources from a job.
• Exclude a resource from Rightsizing analysis
  To ensure that a particular resource is not considered or recommended for Rightsizing, add the resource to the Excluded Resources list. The system continues to collect cost and usage data but does not consider the resource for Rightsizing.
• View or edit scheduled and completed Rightsizing jobs
  View and manage the upcoming and completed Rightsizing jobs.