Azure

Cloud Commitment Management actively manages your commitments throughout their entire lifecycle. This includes planning, purchasing, exchanging, and canceling. It optimizes your reserved instance and savings plan portfolio.

Cloud Commitment Management looks at your existing commitment purchases and creates a well-balanced mix of reserved instances and savings plans. This lets your portfolio change as your needs change.

• Analyze

  Cloud Commitment Management checks industry usage data and your cloud purchases and usage. It categorizes your purchases by region, instance family, lifespan, and scale. This analysis gives you a complete view of how you utilize your on-demand instances.

• Plan

  Using this analysis, Cloud Commitment Management finds the best purchasing strategies for your cloud usage. It reviews your current reserved instance and savings plan portfolio and available commitment purchase options. Cloud Commitment Management uses this information to keep your commitment terms low and utilization high. You save the highest amount possible while retaining the most flexibility for the future.

• Act

  With the analysis and plan ready, Cloud Commitment Management helps you build and manage your portfolio of committed capacity purchases. It makes continuous adjustments by buying, exchanging, canceling and managing your portfolio. Cloud Commitment Management helps you reduce risk and save money by choosing the best mix of reserved instances and savings plans.