Ramp plans

Overview

Spend-based commitment discounts are popular rate optimizations offered by cloud service providers. To take full advantage of commitment discounts, you need to monitor your spend constantly and make necessary adjustments in time.

If your AWS or GCP contract contains spend-based commitments, the Ramp plans feature can help you meet your goal.

The Ramp plans feature visualizes your progress against the committed goal, highlights potential capacity planning, and tracks your progress so you can act in advance by using attribution groups.

Note

Required Permissions:

• Create/edit/delete: Contracts Viewer

• View: Ramp Plans viewer

Access ramp plans

To access Ramp Plans, log in to the DoiT Console, select Billing from the top navigation bar, and then select Ramp plans.

The Ramp plans screen lists both the active and inactive plans.

For each plan, you see some information such as the contract duration, and a preview graphic of its progress. In the preview, you can compare your contract commitment to your actual spend, and see the month you'll reach your contract commitment, if applicable.

By hovering over the graph, you can see your monthly amount of commitment spend, and actual spend.

Create a ramp plan

To create a new ramp plan:

1. Log in to the DoiT Console, select Billing from the top navigation bar, and then select Ramp plans.

2. Select Create ramp plan in the upper-right corner on the Ramp plans screen, and:

   1. Enter a unique name for the plan.

   2. From the Contract drop-down list, choose the contract with a commitment that you want to track.

      Note

      You won't be able to change the contract once the plan is created.

   3. From the Attribution group drop-down list, select the attribution group you want to use for the plan. Once you're done, select Create ramp plan.

      Note

      If the cloud services consumption included in Ramp plan eligible spend don't match your needs, create a new attribution group. Then, come back to create a ramp plan based on it.

      

View a ramp plan

To view a ramp plan, log in to the DoiT Console, select Billing from the top navigation bar, select Ramp plans, and then select the ramp plan you want to check.

You'll find the following information on the top of the screen:

• Contract details: Your contract information.

• Commitment details: A breakdown of your commitment and spend.

• Forecast: An estimation on your average monthly spend required until the end of the contract.

• The total amount of the commitment will be evenly spread out between the months throughout the contract period.

Edit a ramp plan

When viewing an existing ramp plan, you can edit the monthly planned spend manually or by uploading a CSV file.

To edit the planned spend manually:

1. For a specific Period, select Edit planned spend.

2. In the Edit planned spend dialog, modify the spend for the months you want to edit, and select Edit planned spend.

   

To edit the planned spend by uploading a CSV file:

1. When viewing an existing ramp plan, next to the plan name, select the three dots menu.
2. Select Upload planned spend CSV and select the CSV file from your machine.
3. Select Open.

View the total spend breakdown

For each period in your ramp plan, you can see the top 10 services your spend goes to. To do so, when viewing an existing ramp plan, select View total spend breakdown.

Ramp plan CSV file format

Tip

To ensure the planned data is processed correctly, we recommend you to download an existing ramp plan as a template, modify it, and then upload the corrected version.

If you choose to upload your own planned data, use the following conventions:

• The format of the file must be CSV.

• For each period, the CSV file must contain a row starting with Period (case insensitive), followed by the value Plan (case sensitive).

• The value Plan must be followed by the planned data for all the period months, while each value represents a monthly data, with a placeholder data for the period total in the row end. The DoiT Platform will calculate the actual period total when creating the ramp plan.

• The data in the Plan row will be processed sequentially until it hits the value Actual (case sensitive). Each Plan row must have its own Actual, which can be in the Plan row itself or on a separate row.

Download a ramp plan

To download a ramp plan:

1. When viewing an existing ramp plan, next to the plan name, select the three dots menu.
2. Select Download as CSV, and the plan will be downloaded automatically to your machine.

Delete a ramp plan

To delete a ramp plan:

1. When viewing an existing ramp plan, next to the plan name, select the three dots menu.
2. Select Delete ramp plan.