Commitments overview

The Commitments overview gives you visibility into your existing commitments across all payer accounts. If you have enabled both the Compute and Database commitment services, use the All, Compute, and Database tabs to filter data by service type.

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 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.

• Total Potential Savings: Combined monthly savings opportunity across all active accounts from commitment optimizations.

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

• Total Rightsizing Potential: Estimated monthly savings from rightsizing your environment based on actual usage patterns. Select View all Insights to open the Insights page for detailed rightsizing recommendations.

To return to Accounts Overview at any time, open the Account menu in the sidebar and select Go to Accounts Overview.

All accounts

The All accounts table lists each configured account. Rows are sorted by status (Active, then Inactive, then Unsupported). Select a row to open that account's overview.

• Expand (⌄): When an account has child accounts, the Account ID column shows the linked account count (for example, "3 accounts"). Select the expand arrow to show child rows with Status, Account Name, Account ID, ESR, and Savings. Child status is Active when recent statistics exist, otherwise Inactive. Select a child row to open the parent account overview scoped to that child account.

• Status: Depends on the selected tab (All, Compute, or Database):

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

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

  • Unsupported: The cloud provider is not yet supported for full commitments management.

• 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 (for example, "3 accounts").

• Cloud Provider: The cloud provider of the account.

• Type: Icons for commitment services (Compute, Database). Colored icons are enabled. Grey icons with + are detected in your cloud but not yet enabled. No icon appears when a service has no coverage and is not enabled.

• 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 Compute and Database. See Effective Savings Rate.

• Savings (Monthly): Total savings realized over the last 30 days from active commitments. On the All tab, this is the sum of Compute and Database savings.

• Potential Savings (Monthly): Estimated additional monthly savings if you move from your current commitment level to the PerfectScale recommended level for that account.

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.

Payer account overview

Selecting an account from Accounts Overview opens its Overview tab, which shows coverage, savings, and Effective Savings Rate (ESR) trends for that account.

The sidebar shows the selected account, its status, and which commitment services (Compute / Database) are enabled. Use the Account menu to switch accounts. The sidebar also displays a Lifetime Savings counter: total savings accumulated across all accounts since your organization was configured for PerfectScale for Commitments.

For accounts with child accounts, a Linked account selector appears in the page header. Choose a child account to re-scope the Overview widgets to that account's data, or open a child row from All accounts. At the linked account level, Total Potential Savings shows that account's share of payer-level potential savings, based on Savings Plan-eligible on-demand spend over the trailing 60 days, without the recommended-vs-current subtitle. Select All under payer name or switch the sidebar payer to return to the aggregated view.

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. On AWS, commitments include Savings Plans and Reserved Instances where applicable.

In the three cards at the top of Overview, you can see the account's current state.

• ESR (%, current month): The account's Effective Savings Rate for the last 30 days, expressed as a percentage. A trend indicator shows how ESR changed compared to the previous month.

• Savings ($, current month): Total USD savings achieved in the last 30 days, with year-to-date and lifetime totals shown below.

• Total Potential Savings ($/month): The estimated monthly savings you could unlock by moving from your current to the recommended commitment level. The card displays both the recommended and current $/h rates for comparison.

Cost Summary

Cost Summary plots monthly On-Demand cost and cost-with-savings as overlapping bars, with ESR 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.

Commitment Coverage

Commitment Coverage shows daily compute spend broken down into the same categories as the chart legend (today implemented for AWS workloads):

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

• Flexsave On-Demand Equivalent: Spend covered by DoiT Flexsave Savings Plans or Savings Plans purchased before DoiT management began.

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

• Spot Instances: Compute spend served by Spot Instances.

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