Getting started questions

The Potential Savings Report shows a projection of how much you could save by leveraging AI and automation to trade RIs on your behalf compared to any current processes you may have in place. The report shows these savings for both the next 30 days ...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...