# Commitments

> Gain full visibility into your Reserved Instances (RIs) and Savings Plans (SPs) across your AWS and Azure accounts

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Track what you've purchased, how well those commitments are being used, how much you're saving, and where money is being wasted.

Commitments has a page per cloud: **Commitments** (AWS) and **Azure Commitments**, each with five tabs: **Dashboard**, **Inventory**, **Savings**, **Waste**, and **Performance**. Most views offer a **Time Range** selector (1, 3, 6, or 12 months) and, where relevant, a **Billing Account** filter that scopes data to one payer account.

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Key terms: **Utilization** is the share of purchased commitment capacity actually consumed. **Coverage** is the share of eligible spend covered by commitments. **Waste** is commitment capacity paid for but unused. **Net Savings** = gross savings (list cost minus effective cost) minus waste.
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## Access the Commitments page

1. Log in to the CloudBolt Platform.
1. In the sidebar, select **Commitments** to expand it, then choose **AWS** or **Azure**.

## Dashboard

The Dashboard summarizes your commitment portfolio with three KPI cards:

- **Net Savings:** Savings from commitments (RIs and Savings Plans) minus unused commitment waste.
- **Coverage:** The percentage of your eligible cloud spend covered by an RI or SP.
- **Utilization:** The percentage of your purchased commitment capacity actually being consumed.

On AWS, the Dashboard also includes an **Effective Cost Over Time** chart breaking spending into **On-Demand**, **Committed**, and **Other** over time, and a **Commitment Health by Account** table showing each account's coverage percentage, on-demand equivalent, effective cost, and total savings. The Azure Dashboard shows the KPI cards only.

## Inventory

The Inventory tab lists your Reserved Instances and Savings Plans.

**AWS:** each row shows the commitment's status, type (RI or SP), account, service, instance type, region, payment type, start and end dates, units, and commitment value, with a **View** link to its detail page. Summary counts show totals by status (**Active**, **Pending**, **Retired**). Filter by **Status**, **Type**, **Account**, **Service**, **Instance Type**, **Region**, and **Payment Type**.

**Azure:** a per-commitment view derived from FOCUS billing data. Each row shows the commitment's type, name, subscription, service, SKU family, region, term, utilization, and waste. Filter by **Type**, **Subscription**, **Service**, **SKU Family**, and **Region**, with a **Billing Account** filter and **Time Range** selector. Purchase dates are not shown, since Azure commitment costs are amortized in billing data rather than dated by purchase.

### Commitment detail

On AWS, select a commitment to view its full detail page, which includes:

- **Metadata:** Type, service, instance type, account, region, status, payment type, term dates, and units (RIs) or hourly commitment (SPs).
- **Financials:** Used list cost, used effective cost, gross savings, unused cost, and net savings.
- **Utilization Over Time:** A chart showing the used vs. unused portions of the commitment's capacity by month.
- **Consuming Accounts:** A table showing which accounts are using this commitment: each account's share of the commitment, effective cost, on-demand equivalent, and savings.

## Savings

The Savings tab helps you understand where your commitments are delivering the most value.

- **Savings Over Time:** A monthly chart showing **Gross Savings** and **Waste** as bars with a **Net Savings** line, over the selected time range.
- **Savings by Customer** (AWS): A table breaking down savings by account: on-demand equivalent, effective cost, waste, and net savings.
- **Savings by Subscription** (Azure): gross savings per consuming subscription. Waste is attributed to the purchasing subscription on the Waste tab, so the table total can exceed the net-savings headline.

## Waste

The Waste tab surfaces commitment capacity you're paying for but not using.

- **AWS:** an **Unused Cost by Commitment** chart stacking waste per commitment over time, and a **Top Unused Commitments** table (commitment ID, service, unused cost) linking to each commitment's detail page.
- **Azure:** a **Waste Over Time** chart and a **Waste by Subscription** table. Waste is attributed to the subscription that purchased the commitment.

## Performance

The Performance tab charts utilization and coverage over time.

- **AWS:** two charts, **RI Utilization & Coverage** and **SP Utilization & Coverage**, each plotting utilization (solid line) and coverage (dashed line) as percentages by month, with Billing Account and Time Range controls.
- **Azure:** a single **Utilization & Coverage** chart with **RI Utilization**, **SP Utilization**, and **Coverage** series, tenant-wide with a Time Range control.