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Introduction

DoiT Commitment Manager helps you effectively manage your cloud commitments. It visualizes your progress against the committed goal, highlights potential capacity planning, and tracks your progress so you can plan cloud spend ahead of time to realize your contract discounts and avoid shortfalls and penalties.

Key features​

Commitment Manager enables you to monitor the spend-based commitment discounts that you have with AWS and Google Cloud.

  • Visualization with daily updates. Easily track how your actual spend contributes to your commitment over time, with daily updates. The visualization includes detailed service-level breakdowns for Marketplace spend and period-by-period tracking of commitment usage.

  • Contractual commitment terms configuration. Contractual terms dictate financial aspects of a commitment. The ability to reflect and configure these specific conditions ensures accurate tracking, empowering you to optimize your cloud rates.

  • Marketplace contribution to commitments. Depending on your agreement, not all marketplace services contribute to reducing your commitment. Commitment Manager helps you accurately track how Marketplace purchases affect your overall spending commitments, enabling more accurate financial forecasting.

  • Commitment forecasting. Commitment Manager provides an estimate of the monthly spend required to meet your commitment and predicts when you'll achieve it.

Terminology​

Check your contract terms and conditions for your commitment details.

  • Commitment value. When you sign a commitment with a cloud provider, you agree to a commitment value. For example, if your commitment value is $100,000 per year, you must spend at least $100,000 on the cloud provider's services to fulfill your commitment and receive the associated benefits.

  • Commitment period. A commitment period refers to the defined length of time during which you agree to spend a specific amount of money on a provider's services in exchange for discounted rates.

  • Commitment Excess. When your actual usage exceeds the committed amount, the extra usage is considered commitment excess.

  • Commitment Shortfall. When your actual usage falls below the amount you committed to spend during a given period, this is considered commitment shortfall. Depending on your cloud agreement, you may have the ability to carry the shortfall over to a subsequent period. This means you have to spend the carried-over amount plus your new commitment in the next period.

  • Eligible spend. Eligible spend refers to the criteria that Commitment Manager uses to monitor your commitment discounts when you onboard your commitment plan, ensuring that Commitment Manager accurately tracks and visually represents your progress towards your plan's goal.

  • Flexsave spend (only applies to AWS) . Flexsave for Compute covers your on-demand workloads with Reserved Instances (RIs) and Savings Plans (SPs) from DoiT's own inventory. Flexsave costs eligible for a commitment, as shown in Commitment Manager, are calculated differently from general reports.

  • Marketplace spend. Marketplace spending counts towards your commitment, in accordance with the limit specified in your cloud agreement. For example, for a limit of 25% on a $1 million commitment, up to $250,000 can be Marketplace spend.

  • Promotional credits. Promotional credits are free credits or discounts offered by cloud providers. Credits are aggregated and included for each period.

  • Support service spend. AWS Partner Led Support and Google Partner Led Premium Support counts towards your commitment. Specific program eligibility rules, which may differ from the rates shown in general reports, determine the support value that contributes to your commitment.

  • True-up invoices. A true-up invoice is issued by cloud providers or the partners with whom you have your commitment to reconcile any discrepancies between your committed spending and your actual usage during a specific period. It's essentially a final adjustment to ensure you've paid the correct amount based on your actual usage. Including true-up invoices improves the accuracy of the information that DoiT has about your commitment. See Add a true-up invoice.

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