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Introduction

Commitment Manager enables you to monitor the spend-based commitment discounts that you have with AWS and Google Cloud. Commitment Manager visualizes your progress against the committed goal, highlights potential capacity planning, and tracks your progress so you can act in advance to optimize your cloud spend as needed.

Benefits​

Commitment Manager is a tool for understanding your commitments and optimizing your cloud costs.

  • Updated daily visualization of commitment progress. For each commitment, you can see a visualization that shows how your actual spend contributes to your period commitment spend, over time. By hovering over a specific period, you can see a summary of your commitment and actual spend.

  • Visualize commitments by period. Visualizing by periods allows you to predict future spending more accurately.

  • Configure specific contractual commitment terms. 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.

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

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

Commitment Manager terminology​

It is important to understand the components that contribute to your commitment spend, so you can accurately track spending and prevent unexpected costs.

  • Commitment value. When you sign a commitment with a cloud provider, it specifies a commitment value. For example, if your commitment value is $100,000 per year, this means you must spend at least $100,000 on the cloud provider's services to fulfill your commitment and receive the associated benefits. Check your contract terms and conditions to understand your commitment value.

  • 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. Check your contract terms and conditions to understand what is included in your commitment. See View commitment spend.

  • 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. Check your contract terms and conditions to understand your commitment period.

  • Marketplace spend. Marketplace spending counts towards your commitment. The amount depends on 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. Check your contract terms and conditions to understand your Marketplace spend. See View commitment spend.

  • (Only applies to AWS) Flexsave spend. Flexsave 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. See View commitment spend.

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

  • Commitment Excess. When your actual usage exceeds the committed amount, the extra usage is considered commitment excess. You may have the ability to carry the excess over to a subsequent period. Excess rollover means that all or part of the excess from the period is counted toward the following period's commitment. Check your contract terms and conditions to understand your commitment excess. You can configure this to align with your commitment. See View commitment spend.

  • 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. You can configure this to align with your commitment. Check your contract terms and conditions to understand your commitment shortfall. See View commitment spend.

  • 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. Its 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.

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

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