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Insights

DoiT Insights is a recommendation service that helps you optimize cloud costs, enhance cloud infrastructure's security, and adopt best practices of FinOps and well-architected framework. It also tracks completed optimizations, fostering accountability within your organization and helping you understand your progress over time.

Insights categories​

DoiT Insights provides actionable recommendations in six categories:

  • FinOps: FinOps is a critical aspect of cloud operations. This category focuses on identifying cost optimization opportunities and helping organizations manage cloud costs.

  • Operational excellence: This category offers guidance on automation, monitoring, and governance to improve the operational health of cloud workloads and streamline processes and workflow.

  • Performance efficiency: This category focuses on efficiently using IT and computing resources and improving the speed and responsiveness of business-critical applications.

  • Reliability: This category focuses on enhancing system availability and fault tolerance, providing insights on workload distribution, load balancing, and resilient architectures.

  • Security: This category focuses on identifying security risks and recommending mitigation measures. It offers guidance on access control, encryption, identity management, and compliance with security standards.

  • Sustainability: This category promotes energy-efficient and sustainable resource usage to reduce waste and carbon footprint. It helps organizations run their workloads with energy efficiency.

Insights sources​

DoiT Insights offers both machine-generated and human-curated recommendations. In the DoiT console, they are identified by the source of the recommendations.

DoiT Cloud Intelligence​

Also known as automated insights, these are machine-generated recommendations. The DoiT platform leverages multiple mechanisms to generate automated insights, as explained below:

Data in the DoiT platform​

  • Cloud billing data: Insights generated using cloud billing data are refreshed daily. Billing data is typically collected over seven or more consecutive days, with the last day being three days prior to the current day to mitigate potential data latency issues.

  • BigQuery audit logs: BigQuery Lens insights are generated using BigQuery audit logs and are refreshed weekly. As BigQuery's usage profile generally does not change as frequently as billing data, the weekly frequency minimizes query costs while allowing pertinent recommendations.

Other recommendation systems​

DoiT Experts​

Also known as custom insights, these are created by the DoiT expert team and tailored to your cloud environment.

While automated insights excel in speed, scalability, and consistency, custom insights bring contextual understanding, empathy, and creativity, adapting to complex situations. Together, they form a balanced and effective DoiT recommendation system.

Feature availability​

Insights available to you vary with your DoiT Cloud Intelligence plan and may also be subject to your plans with your service providers.

  • You get access to custom insights created by the DoiT expert team if you have an Essentials, Enhanced, or Enterprise DoiT Cloud Intelligence plan.

  • You get access to automated insights if you have an Enhanced or Enterprise DoiT Cloud Intelligence plan.

  • You get access to AWS Trusted Advisor insights if you meet all the following conditions:

    • You have an Enhanced or Enterprise DoiT Cloud Intelligence plan.
    • You have an AWS Business, Enterprise On-Ramp, or Enterprise Support plan on your AWS account.
    • You have enabled the Trusted Advisor insights feature on all relevant AWS accounts linked to the DoiT platform (see link your AWS account). DoiT Insights checks recommendations only for accounts with the Trusted Advisor insights feature enabled.

  • You get access to AWS Cost Optimization Hub insights if you meet all the following conditions:

    • Your AWS accounts have opted in to both Cost Optimization Hub and AWS Compute Optimizer (Cost Optimization Hub imports cost optimization recommendations generated by multiple AWS services, including rightsizing recommendations from AWS Compute Optimizer).

    • You have enabled the Cost Optimization Hub insights feature on all relevant AWS accounts linked to the DoiT platform (see link your AWS account). DoiT Insights gets recommendations only for accounts with the Cost Optimization Hub insights feature enabled.

  • You get access to Google Cloud Recommender insights if you have an Enhanced or Enterprise DoiT Cloud Intelligence plan.

  • For automated insights that require additional permissions, check the list of Supported automated insights.

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