Recommendations Report

The Recommendations Report in CloudSpend helps you optimize cloud costs, and improve fault tolerance and performance of your cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP accounts.

To get the best Cost, Availability, and Security recommendations, ensure your AWS, Azure, or GCP accounts are integrated with Site24x7 for monitoring. In the coming months, the Cost and Security recommendations will only be available through CloudSpend, so don’t miss out! Make sure you’ve set up CloudSpend to keep receiving those valuable insights.

Overview

By analyzing your cloud usage data, CloudSpend provides tailored recommendations that can help you achieve significant savings and improve the overall efficiency of your cloud environment.

The recommendations are categorized into:

  • Cost: Helps in reducing unnecessary expenditures and rightsizing your resource usage.
  • Availability: Improves the reliability and fault tolerance of your infrastructure by detecting potential availability risks.
  • Security: Identifies security gaps and suggests measures to strengthen the security posture.

The recommendations are provided separately, allowing you to drill down and implement improvements specific to AWS, Azure, or GCP. They are also grouped based on three priority levels: High, Moderate, and Low.

Compliance checks

CloudSpend also performs compliance assessments to ensure adherence to best practice guidelines. These assessments help detect security risks and allow you to evaluate whether your cloud infrastructure aligns with international security and compliance regulations.

You can easily pinpoint non-compliant practices and receive suggestions on how to meet compliance standards. Additionally, you have the capability to review compliance details alongside best practice recommendations for your cloud resources.

How do the recommendations work?

CloudSpend collects and analyzes your cloud usage data from AWS, Azure, and GCP. Based on the collected data, CloudSpend identifies the potential areas for optimization and generates tailored recommendations.
The report provides in-depth explanations for each recommendation, highlighting the potential benefits and risks.

Example scenarios

AWS

CloudSpend provides cost and security recommendations for AWS accounts to help you manage and optimize resources more effectively.

Let's say you have a few unused EC2 instances in your AWS account. CloudSpend identifies these unused or underutilized EC2 instances. It checks the resource utilization of the EC2 instances and labels them as underutilized if the CPU usage is less than 2% for the past 48 hours.

For Amazon EC2, you are billed based on the instance type and the number of consumed hours. You can lower your costs by identifying and terminating the underutilized instances. In addition, CloudSpend also shows the Current Instance Type and recommends the desired instance type (Suggested Instance Type) so that you can downgrade for better cost-cutting.

Azure

Consider that you have a storage account that has public access. CloudSpend can detect such storage accounts and recommends you to switch to a private endpoint and deny public access for security reasons.

GCP

Suppose you have a highly utilized GCP Compute instance. CloudSpend checks the performance counters for GCP Compute and identifies instances that appear to be highly utilized.

A GCP Compute instance is deemed as overutilized if it meets the following criteria:

  • The average daily CPU usage for the Compute instance is more than 90% for the last seven days.
  • The average daily memory utilization for the Compute instance is more than 90% for the last seven days.
  • Therefore, based on the above criteria CloudSpend recommends you to consider changing the instance size or add the instance to an auto-scaling group.

Viewing the Recommendations Report

To view the Recommendations Report, follow the steps below:

  1. Log in to CloudSpend and navigate to Reports.
  2. Select Recommendations Report.
  3. On the Recommendations page, select the applicable cloud service and the respective account.
  4. The recommendations available for the selected cloud service will be displayed based on Cost, Availability, and Security categories. Select the applicable grid to view the recommendations. You can select Cost, Availability, or Security as applicable.
  5. After selecting the category grid, you can filter the recommendations based on the priority levels (High, Moderate, Low), region, and security standard and certifications.
  6. Follow the suggested recommendations to ensure that your cloud environment remains efficient, resilient, and secure.

 

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