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Flexsave for Amazon Web Services

DoiT Flexsave enables simplified, automated management of on-demand Amazon Web Services (AWS) workloads. It covers your on-demand workloads with Reserved Instances (RIs) and Savings Plans (SPs) from DoiT's own inventory, thus helps you improve the cost efficiency of AWS resources without having to manage the commitments by yourself.

Capabilities

Flexsave monitors the usage of your on-demand resources and adjusts the mix of discount mechanisms to maximize your potential savings. Depending on you account type, you get different Flexsave capabilities.

Account types

  • Resold account: A resold account is paid by a DoiT reseller payer account. There are two sub types:

    • Consolidated resold account: Your account is a member of one of the three DoiT consolidated billing accounts (payer account ID 561602220360, 017920819041, or 279843869311).

    • Dedicated resold account: Your account is on a DoiT reseller payer account other than the three consolidated accounts listed above.

  • SaaS account: A SaaS account isn't paid by a DoiT reseller payer account. Your account is of this type if your organization isn't paying for cloud access via DoiT.

Consolidated resold accounts

  • Supported regions: all available regions

  • Supported services: Amazon EC2

  • Supported operating systems: Linux, Windows (including Microsoft SQL Server)

Services not listed above are not eligible for Flexsave, including AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, VMware Cloud on AWS, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon RDS, and Amazon SageMaker.

Dedicated resold and SaaS accounts

Services not listed above are not eligible for Flexsave, including VMware Cloud on AWS, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon RedShift, and Amazon OpenSearch.

Instance eligibility

  • If you have a consolidated resold account, Flexsave allocates capacity for the current month based on utilization during the last 7 days of the previous month. Instances that run for ~90% during that period qualify for Flexsave discount. Bear in mind that you only have access to the Flexsave services supported for consolidated resold accounts.

  • If you have a dedicated resold or a SaaS account, to meet the qualification criteria, you must maintain a spend across supported SKUs of at least US$1 per hour over the past 7 days.

  • For Amazon SageMaker, you need to maintain consistent spend across supported SKUs of at least US$1 per hour over the last 7 days.

Flexsave dashboard

Flexsave related information is found on the Flexsave dashboard. You also enable Flexsave for various Amazon services from the Flexsave dashboard, for example, Flexsave for RDS and Flexsave for SageMaker.

To access the dashboard, sign in to the DoiT Console, select Savings from the top navigation bar, and then select Flexsave AWS.

Flexsave summary

If Flexsave is enabled on your account, you'll see a summary card with savings of the current month, the all-time effective savings rate (the effective discount applied to your on-demand spend since Flexsave is activated), and the lifetime savings total to date (the accrued savings resulted from using Flexsave), followed by a summary chart.

Flexsave savings dashboard

Total savings by service

This section shows savings summary (savings of the current month, lifetime savings to date, savings rate) for individual services, for example, Amazon Compute (EC2, ECS, Lambda, EKS), Amazon SageMaker, and Amazon RDS.

It also hosts the coverage reports of compute and SageMaker, if applicable. You can access the coverage reports from the Flexsave dashboard or from the main Reports page. See Flexsave compute coverage and Flexsave SageMaker coverage for more information.

Flexsave AWS landing