Vantage Expands AWS Rightsizing and Idle Recommendations

Today, Vantage is expanding its rightsizing and idle recommendations to support EC2, RDS, EBS, ECS, Lambda, and Auto-Scaling Groups (ASGs). These new recommendations provide deeper visibility and broader coverage of Vantage Cost Recommendations, allowing customers to unlock significantly higher savings and performance improvements across their infrastructure. Each new recommendation includes 10+ contextual usage metrics, up to three instance-level optimization suggestions, projections on savings, migration effort, and future utilization metrics. Informed with all of the relevant context, teams can quickly prioritize the most impactful changes.

Rightsizing recommendations now provide up to three recommendations with savings, performance risk, and migration effort, along with relevant CloudWatch metrics to make informed decisions.

Previously, customers only received AWS rightsizing recommendations for EC2 in Vantage. While this provided recommendations for the most prevalent AWS Service according to the most recent Vantage Cloud Cost Report, this limited customers’ ability to holistically optimize their cloud footprint. Vantage also provided a single rightsizing recommendation without any contextual metrics for which the recommendation was made. Customers often had to hunt down supporting usage metrics, like CPU or memory utilization, or perform manual analysis to determine if the recommendation was accurate or aligned with workload needs, making it difficult to adopt recommendations at scale.

Now, Vantage will provide idle and rightsizing recommendations for EC2, RDS, EBS, ECS, Lambda, and ASGs. Each recommendation includes contextual CloudWatch metrics such as maximum CPU and memory utilization, and multiple potential resizing options to evaluate. Users can also use the Compare Pricing button to explore an instance pricing comparison via ec2instances.info, which evaluates the current instance type used against the proposed instance types from the recommendation.

Idle and rightsizing recommendations for EC2, RDS, EBS, ECS, Lambda, and ASGs are available today in the Recommendations section of the Vantage console. For more information, view the Cost Recommendations documentation.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is being launched today?

Vantage is expanding its rightsizing recommendations to include EC2, RDS, EBS, ECS, Lambda, and ASGs. Each resource now displays multiple potential sizing options along with contextual usage metrics to support informed decision-making.

2. Who is the customer?

Any Vantage user who has connected AWS as a provider and uses one of the supported services.

3. How much does this cost?

There is no additional cost to see these recommendations; however, if you are on a free trial, the specifics of the recommendations will be obscured.

4. Where can I view rightsizing and idle recommendations?

Customers can view their recommendations in the Recommendations page within the Vantage console.

5. What types of metrics are shown alongside rightsizing recommendations?

Vantage displays relevant CloudWatch metrics such as maximum CPU and memory utilization, which help teams assess whether a given recommendation makes sense for their workload. They are also made available programmatically via the /recommendations endpoint. Each resource’s recommendation can be viewed in detail on its Active Resources page.

6. What information is available to me within Resource Reports?

When viewing Resource Reports, you will now have additional metadata fields for filtering:

• Max CPU
• Max GPU
• Max Network in Bytes per Second
• Max Network out Bytes per Second
• Max Network Packets In per Second
• Max Network Packets Out per Second
• Max Network Throughput Daily Byte
• Max Memory
• Max GPU Memory
• Max EBS Read Ops per Second
• Max EBS Write Ops per Second
• Max EBS Read Bytes per Second
• Max EBS Write Bytes per Second
• Max Database Connections

These metrics are also available to users when viewing the Active Resource page for a resource.

7. Why are there multiple recommendations for each resource?

Rather than providing a single suggestion, Vantage shows several viable rightsizing options, each with projected savings and utilization tradeoffs. This allows teams to select the most appropriate option based on workload patterns and operational preferences.

8. Can I view historical usage trends for context?

Yes, Vantage provides CloudWatch metrics within Active Resources to provide insight into peak and average usage over a selected time period to help evaluate whether a resource is over-provisioned.

9. Is this available for non-AWS providers?

Vantage currently provides rightsizing recommendations for other providers already, such as Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes. However, this enhancement is currently available for AWS resources only.

10. Can I ignore a specific recommendation?

If you want to hide a recommendation, click the Archive icon. The recommendation will be added to your archived recommendation list.

11. Will I be notified when recommendations are surfaced?

We do not currently send notifications when new recommendations are surfaced.