The AWS Reserved Instance (RI) Coverage report helps you understand and monitor which of your AWS EC2 instances are covered by RIs. You can use it to identify the instances that are under-utilized as well as those that are running at on-demand rates, so you can adjust your RI purchases to optimize costs. If you have instances that are in frequent use and aren't covered by RIs, you may be able to save money by purchasing RIs for them.
You can select the currency for your report. All costs shown in the report will be converted to this currency.
To retrieve Reserved Instance Coverage information from Amazon, you must enable Amazon's Cost Explorer. For more information, see Set up your AWS account with Amazon Cost Explorer.
This report doesn't support any markup or discount cost adjustments you've made to the cost model and isn't available for Service Portal users.
This report shows only AWS EC2 reservations for Compute Instances.
There's a fee of $0.01 USD per request to AWS to retrieve recommendation data. Generally, two requests are required per report. For cloud accounts with many resources, multiple requests may be required. These request fees will be visible on the Cost Dashboard.
Report settings
Access: | Reports > Chargeback & IT Costing > AWS Reserved Instance Coverage |
Available to: | All Access Rights Levels |
During: Specify a time period for the report.
- When you select By Period, the period will be the last completed timespan. For example, if the current month is May and you select Last 3 Months, the range for the report will be February, March, and April.
- When you select By Dates, the From Date must be at least 1 day before the current date and can’t be earlier than 12 months ago, at the first of the month. For example on August 24, 2020, the earliest day selectable for the From Date is August 1, 2019, and the latest day selectable for the From Date is August 23, 2020. The To Date must be at least 1 day before the current date.
To see data points on the summary graph for a given month, if you intend to use Monthly Granularity, your date selection must include the last day of that month.
Granularity: Select Daily or Monthly depending on the level of detail you want to include in your report. To see data points on the summary graph for a given month, when you select Monthly, your Duration must include the last day of that month.
Cloud Account: You can select your AWS payer account, individual linked accounts, or a GovCloud account. When you select a payer account, you have the option to retrieve data for its linked accounts using the Linked Accounts setting described below. If you select a linked account that doesn't have direct access to Amazon's Cost Explorer, the associated payer account's access will be used. If you select a linked account, only data for that account will be shown in the report.
Region: The regions available will be the ones associated with the cloud account you selected. When you select a specific region, and are retrieving data for a payer account with the Include Linked Accounts option selected, then all accounts within that region are shown, even if they aren't managed by Commander. When you select All, with the Include Linked Accounts option selected, a superset of pre-configured regions is used. This superset includes selected regions for the payer account and all the linked accounts found in Commander.
Linked Accounts: You can select None to view data from only the cloud account you selected above. Select Include Linked Accounts to see data from the payer account and the linked accounts associated with the payer account, including any GovCloud accounts, even if the linked accounts aren't managed by Commander.
Currency: Select the currency for the report. All costs shown in the report will be converted to this currency.
After you click Generate, you can cancel the generation of this report before it completes by right-clicking on the generation task line in the Task window and selecting Cancel.
Understanding the report
The AWS Reserved Instance Coverage report provides a breakdown of how RIs are applied to your instances.
Average Coverage (%): The percentage of instance hours used that were covered by RIs.
Total On-Demand Hours: The number of instance hours for your selected duration using on-demand payments (not covered by RIs).
Total Reserved Hours: The number of instance hours for your selected duration that were covered by RIs.
Total Running Hours: The total number of instance hours for your selected duration.
Total On-Demand Costs: How much you spend on on-demand instances.
This report can be exported to both CSV and PDF formats.