Accounts and commitments overview

Accounts Overview and Overview give you visibility into your existing commitments across all or individual payer and billing accounts.

If you have enabled multiple commitment types, use the filter tabs at the top of the page to filter data by commitment type, for example, All, Compute, or Database.

Required permissions

• PerfectScale Commitments Admin, or PerfectScale Commitments Read Only

Accounts Overview

After initial setup, PerfectScale for Commitments opens to Accounts Overview: a cross-account summary of all configured payer and billing accounts so you can compare performance and optimization opportunities in one place.

Accounts Overview shows four metric cards with organization-wide totals. These totals are calculated from Active accounts only, see All accounts for status definitions.

• Average ESR (%): The average Effective Savings Rate across all active accounts over the last 30 days, displayed as a semicircular gauge scaled from 0 to 60%. The 60% ceiling is the practical maximum for commitment-based discounts such as Savings Plans and CUDs. A trend caption below the gauge shows the month-over-month change (previous calendar month vs the month before) as a directional arrow with the percentage-point delta.

• Total Potential Savings ($/month): Combined estimated monthly savings from commitment recommendations across onboarded accounts. When all accounts are fully optimized and potential savings are near $0, this card displays an Optimized indicator instead of a dollar amount.

• Total Hourly Commitment ($/h): Total active hourly commitment rate summed across all active accounts.

• Total Rightsizing Potential ($/month): Estimated monthly savings from rightsizing your environment based on actual usage patterns. When no rightsizing opportunities remain, this card displays an Optimized indicator instead of a dollar amount. Select View all Insights to open the Insights page for detailed rightsizing recommendations.

For navigation between accounts and returning to this view, see Account sidebar.

All accounts

The All accounts table lists each configured account. Rows are sorted by status (Active, then Inactive). Select a row to open that account's Overview. Accounts that appear in Commitment Simulator but are not yet onboarded for PerfectScale for Commitments show as Inactive until you complete setup.

• Expand row (⌄): When an account has linked accounts, the Account ID column shows the count. Expand the row to show the linked accounts. A child row is Active if recent statistics exist, otherwise Inactive.

  A child rows that include the Payer label is the master payer account. A child row that include the Purchaser label is the account used to buy commitments.

  Select a child row to open the Overview tab scoped to that linked account.

• Status:

  • Active: The account is enabled for the current view. On All, at least one commitment type is enabled.

  • Inactive: Not yet enabled for this view (Commitment Simulator only), or enabled only for another commitment type.

  For AWS, status depends on the selected tab All, Compute, or Database.

• Account Name: The display name of the payer or billing account.

• Account ID: The cloud account or billing account ID. For AWS, when an account has child accounts, the Account ID column shows the linked account count.

• Cloud Provider: The cloud provider of the account.

• Type: Icons for commitment types. Colored icons are enabled. Grey icons with + are detected in your cloud but not yet enabled. No icon appears when a type has no coverage and is not enabled.

  To enable a detected type, open Account Settings, select Add new accounts, and complete onboarding for that commitment type. See Manage account settings.

• ESR (%): Effective Savings Rate over the last 30 days. Savings realized through active commitments compared with equivalent on-demand cost. Higher ESR means greater realized savings. On the All tab, ESR is a savings-weighted average across enabled commitment types.

• Savings (Monthly): Total savings realized over the last 30 days from active commitments. On the All tab, this is the sum across enabled commitment types.

• Potential Savings (Monthly): Estimated additional monthly savings if you move from your current commitment level to the PerfectScale recommended level for that account. A checkmark appears instead of a dollar amount when the account is fully optimized.

If you open an account that appears in Commitment Simulator but is not configured for PerfectScale for Commitments, choose Commitment Simulator to plan commitment levels, or Configure account to set up PerfectScale for Commitments.

After onboarding, return to Accounts Overview to monitor ESR and coverage, then use Optimize and execute commitment plans for purchase plans.

Overview tab

Selecting an onboarded account or one of its linked accounts from Accounts Overview opens its Overview tab. It shows coverage, savings, and ESR trends for that account. For accounts with linked accounts, a Linked account selector appears in the page header.

Overview shows three metric cards:

• ESR (%): The account's Effective Savings Rate for the previous calendar month, displayed as a semicircular gauge scaled from 0 to 60%. The 60% ceiling is the practical maximum for commitment-based discounts such as Savings Plans and CUDs, so you can see how close the account is to the maximum attainable savings. Values above 60% fill the gauge completely. A trend caption below the gauge shows the change versus the month before as a directional arrow with the percentage-point delta.

• Savings ($): Total savings for the previous calendar month, with year-to-date and lifetime totals shown below.

• Total Potential Savings ($/month): Estimated monthly savings available by applying PerfectScale recommendations. At the payer or billing account level, the card also shows recommended and current commitment rates ($/h). When potential savings are near $0, the card displays an Optimized indicator instead of a dollar amount. At the linked account level, the card shows that account's share of payer-level potential savings (without the recommended-vs-current subtitle), or N/A if no share is available.

Cost Summary

Cost Summary plots monthly spend as overlapping bars, with Effective Savings Rate as a line on the secondary axis. Use this chart to see whether your savings rate is improving or declining over time and how it correlates with overall spend.

The gap between the bars is the savings realized that month. A widening gap with a rising ESR line usually means commitment coverage is improving relative to spend.

• On-Demand Cost: What the same eligible usage would have cost at full on-demand rates, before commitment discounts.

• Actual Costs: What you paid for that eligible usage after commitment discounts. For example, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and Flexsave on AWS, or CUDs on Google Cloud.

Commitment Coverage

The Commitment Coverage chart shows daily spend broken down by discount type over the last 30 days. Each bar is labeled with that day's total cost, and a Coverage (%) line on the right axis tracks the share of spend covered by commitments. Select Customize to show or hide series, or Reset to default to restore the original selection. The chart varies by cloud provider. If a product line has no coverage data yet, the chart displays an empty state.

Recommendations use a 60-day analysis of your cost, coverage, and utilization to calculate the commitment level needed to cover eligible on-demand spend.

AWS

For AWS accounts, Commitment Coverage breaks down daily spend for the selected commitment type into the following categories:

• Coverage (%): The percentage of total daily spend covered by commitments, plotted as a line on the right axis.

• Covered On-Demand: Spend covered by customer-purchased Savings Plans or Reserved Instances.

• Eligible On-Demand: Spend charged at full on-demand rates, not covered by a Savings Plan or Reserved Instance.

• Spot Instances (optional): Compute spend served by Spot Instances. Hidden by default; enable it from Customize.

• Flexsave On-Demand Equivalent (AWS Flexsave customers only): Spend covered by Flexsave Savings Plans.

Google Cloud

For Google Cloud accounts, CUD Coverage shows daily Committed Use Discount (CUD) coverage for the selected product line (for example, Compute flexible). The chart displays stacked bars with a coverage-percentage line on the secondary axis.

• Coverage (%): The percentage of total eligible spend covered by CUDs, plotted as a line on the right axis.

• Covered On-Demand: Spend covered by active CUDs, including both spend-based and resource-based commitments.

• On-Demand: Spend charged at full on-demand rates, not covered by any CUD.

Account sidebar

The left sidebar stays available on both Accounts Overview (all accounts) and account-scoped tabs. What it shows depends on whether an account is selected.

• Accounts Overview (all accounts): The account selector shows Select Account. Use the Account menu to open any configured payer or billing account. In the menu, each active account displays a green checkmark if it is fully optimized, or a savings badge with the estimated monthly potential savings. Select Go to Accounts Overview from the menu to return to the all-accounts view from an account-scoped tab.

• Selected account: The selector shows that account's name and ID, plus icons for the commitment types that are enabled. An Optimized indicator appears when the selected account has near-zero monthly potential savings. Navigation in the sidebar (Overview, recommendations, Inventory, and so on) applies to this account.

At the bottom, Lifetime Savings is organization-wide: the total savings accumulated across all accounts since the earliest date your organization was configured for PerfectScale for Commitments. It does not change when you switch the selected account.

Effective Savings Rate

Effective Savings Rate (ESR) measures what fraction of your eligible spend is saved through active commitments. A higher ESR means your discounted commitment coverage is well utilized. A declining ESR often signals coverage gaps, underutilized commitments, or a rise in uncovered on-demand spend.