New Feature: AWS RDS Cost Savings Insights

New feature alert! Cloudthread is launching AWS RDS Cost Savings Insights. This feature identifies underutilized RDS instances and recommends cost-saving actions such as rightsizing or instance shut-off (for stone-cold machines).

Now you can find underutilized RDS instances within the same interface and see the recommended rightsizing actions and potential savings.

AWS RDS instances are essentially same EC2 machines running databases, and similar to EC2, they can be underutilized, which happens quite often and leads to cost inefficiencies.

Cloudthread platform already provides EC2 Cost Savings Insights, and addition of RDS low utilization detection is a logical extension of this feature. Now you can find underutilized RDS instances within the same interface and see the recommended rightsizing actions and potential savings. Unlike with EC2 case, where we use both CPU and Memory, our RDS solution is focused primarily on CPU as of now and will be enhanced going forward.

AWS RDS Cost Savings Insights together with powerful reporting and alerting unlock the direct path to cloud cost savings for your Engineering team if they heavily use RDS. The feature comes out-of-the-box in all the versions of Cloudthread platform and requires straightforward AWS CloudWatch setup for gathering utilization metrics.

The feature is now available for all users – contact us to start using it as well as other engineering-focused cloud cost management capabilities Cloudthread platform provides.