FAQ - Commitment Manager

Zesty can still provide savings to you in the interim on any workloads that aren’t covered by the existing commitments. Zesty would then maximize savings once your existing commitments expire. The scope of these interim savings would depend greatly ...

There are no limitations that exist on the types of instances and regions that can be covered. Zesty can cover every on-demand compute workload by using a blend of AWS discount plans.

In order to connect to the Zesty Dashboard for a Potential Savings Report, an IAM role will need to be created. At this stage, Zesty requires read-only permissions for metadata associated with your EC2 usage. This includes lists of running EC2 inst...

To fully activate Commitment Manager a number of permissions will need to be added to the IAM role created for the POC and Potential Savings Report. Most notably, this means adding permissions empowering Zesty to interact with the RI Marketplace on...

This glossary provides explanations and definitions of terms commonly found in this Help Center. In some instances, definitions may be specific to how terms are used and understood by Zesty. Reserved Instances (RIs) - A form of financial commi...

As seen below, the projected savings for the next 30 days do not appear to be mathematically in line with the 12 month projection. This is because in addition to looking at your currently uncovered workloads, Zesty’s algorithm also assesses any comm...

In most situations, Zesty products can work if you have an SCP in place. Because of the number of different ways in which Service Control Policies can be set up and configured, we would need to review the specific policies implemented on your infra...

When creating an AWS account, you begin with a single identity which has complete access to all AWS services and resources across the account. This includes a small number of functions not granted to any other user ID in the organization, even those...

AWS requires root user access to amend or create bank details, which is a necessary part of registering to the RI Marketplace. Without this registration, Zesty is unable to buy or sell Reserved Instances on your behalf to cover your workloads. Plea...

In order to assess your workloads and provide a Potential Savings Report, Zesty requires that an IAM Role be created and attached to your AWS account. This role consists of read-only permissions of metadata only and does not allow Zesty to take an...

You do not need to commit upfront to a specific period of time when signing a contract with Zesty for Commitment Manager, however we do require 30 days written notice prior to cancellation.

As of now, Commitment Manager supports AWS EC2 as well as EKS and ECS, provided that they are backed by EC2 instances. We also offer a separate solution for AWS EBS and Azure Managed Disks and Insights, Zesty Disk.

The Reserved Instance Marketplace is, practically speaking, much like the stock exchange. The only difference is that instead of trading stocks, the RI Marketplace trades in second-hand Reserved Instances. What this means is that if you have ov...

No. The Potential Savings Report is a service which Zesty offers for free. If you do not wish to continue moving forward to activation, you can simply disconnect from the dashboard by deleting the IAM role in your AWS Management Console and opening...

Typically the ramping period to maximum coverage for new customers is about four weeks from the date of activation, although this can vary by a few weeks depending on the size and complexity of the infrastructure being covered. Your CSM will be abl...

You will be able to start seeing savings through the Zesty dashboard as soon as your account is activated. Initial RI purchases are made incrementally to gradually cover more and more of your eligible workloads until maximum coverage and maximum sa...

Our algorithm takes a granular approach to covering your usage. Rather than purchasing a small number of large commitments, we buy many smaller ones so that if your compute workloads decrease at any time, we can sell off a number of these smaller ...

Zesty requires 30 days notification of any major changes to your cloud infrastructure in order to best manage this change from our side and help in providing recommendations to you to help optimize coverage of the new state. Giving Zesty advance no...

When you sign up with Zesty you gain access to the full Zesty dashboard, which offers a number of insights and optimization tools beyond just Commitment Manager. S3 Explorer: Provides visibility into the costs associated with existing S3 buckets. ...

Commitment Manager does not require an agent to run. Zesty does require an IAM role to be set up and linked to the Zesty dashboard as well as registration to the RI Marketplace in order to see usage metrics and then buy or sell Reserved Instances to...

We can. Zesty has no insight into what our customers are doing with their instances. We only receive the usage metadata on running instances that is necessary for determining how best to cover them with commitments. Provided that your container wo...

Typically we can save you about 50% on your EC2 spend. Please note that this number can also be higher, but it depends a great deal on a wide range of factors including OS, region, instance types being used and existing commitments. To gain a better...

Zesty collects only the metadata specified by the IAM role needed to connect your organization to the Zesty platform . If you disconnect from the Zesty platform at any point, whether at the POC or post-activation stage, Zesty does not mainta...