Reserved Capacity Analysis

Stop Paying On-Demand Prices
for Steady-State Workloads

Resources running 24/7 for months? You're overpaying. Reserved Instances and Savings Plans cut costs by 30-60% with zero performance impact.

30-60%
Typical Savings
Zero Risk
Same Performance

The $96,000/Year Missed Opportunity

"We had 40 production VMs running 24/7 for 2+ years. All on on-demand pricing. Nobody ever looked at Reserved Instances."

"Monthly VM bill: $16,000. When we finally checked RI pricing, we realized the same VMs would cost $8,000/month with 1-year RIs."

"We'd been throwing away $8,000 per month for 24 months - $192,000 total. All because 'we didn't have time to figure out RIs.'"

— Engineering Director, SaaS Company

Reserved Instances = Same VMs, 30-60% cheaper. No performance trade-off. Pure savings.

Most companies qualify for $50K-$200K annual savings but never pull the trigger because RI analysis is complex.

On-Demand vs Reserved Pricing

Same resources, massive cost difference

On-Demand

$1,460
per month
Standard_D4s_v3 VM
  • ✓ Pay-as-you-go
  • ✓ No commitment
  • ✓ Full flexibility
  • ✗ Highest cost
BEST VALUE

1-Year Reserved

$1,020
per month
Save $440/mo (30%)
  • ✓ 30% discount
  • ✓ 1-year commitment
  • ✓ Balanced savings
  • ✓ $5,280/year saved

3-Year Reserved

$730
per month
Save $730/mo (50%)
  • ✓ 50% discount
  • ✓ 3-year commitment
  • ✓ Maximum savings
  • ✓ $8,760/year saved

Example: 50 Production VMs

On-Demand: $73,000/mo
$876,000/year
1-Year RI: $51,000/mo
Save $264K/year
3-Year RI: $36,500/mo
Save $438K/year

How RI Analysis Works

AI-powered recommendations for maximum savings

1

Analyze Resource Stability

We identify resources that qualify for Reserved capacity:

  • Running duration: Has it been up for 3+ months?
  • Uptime percentage: >95% uptime = RI candidate
  • Environment tags: Production resources prioritized
  • Future plans: Check for scheduled migrations/deletions

RI Qualification Criteria

Excellent RI Candidate
  • • Running 6+ months
  • • 98%+ uptime
  • • Production tagged
  • • No migration plans
ROI: 12-18 months
Poor RI Candidate
  • • Running <3 months
  • • <80% uptime
  • • Dev/test environment
  • • Scheduled for changes
Stay on-demand
2

Calculate ROI & Breakeven

Example: Standard_D4s_v3 VM

Current Cost (On-Demand)
$1,460/mo
$17,520/year
1-Year RI Cost
$1,020/mo
$12,240/year
Annual Savings
$5,280
Breakeven Point
Day 1
3-Year Savings
$15,840

Smart RI Sizing

We don't just recommend "buy RIs for everything." Our AI considers:

  • • Growth plans: Need flexibility for scaling up?
  • • Mixed workloads: Savings Plans may be better than RIs
  • • Commitment term: 1-year vs 3-year based on your stability
  • • Payment options: All upfront, partial upfront, no upfront
3

Get Detailed Purchase Plan

We provide step-by-step purchase guidance:

Exact RI SKUs to Buy
Specific VM series, region, and quantity
Azure CLI Commands
Copy-paste commands to purchase RIs
Coverage Tracking
Monitor RI utilization monthly
Renewal Reminders
Alerts 90 days before RI expiration
# Example RI Purchase Command
az reservations reservation-order \
calculate \
--applied-scope-type Shared \
--billing-plan Monthly \
--display-name "Prod-VMs-1Y-RI" \
--quantity 10 \
--reserved-resource-type VirtualMachines \
--sku-name Standard_D4s_v3 \
--term P1Y \
--location eastus
# Expected Annual Savings
$52,800/year

What Resources Qualify for Reserved Capacity

Virtual Machines

Azure VMs, AWS EC2, GCP Compute Engine

Save 30-60%

Databases

SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL Reserved capacity

Save 30-65%

Storage

Azure Reserved Storage capacity

Save 30-40%

Data Warehouse

Redshift, Synapse Reserved capacity

Save 50-75%

Cache & Redis

Azure Cache, ElastiCache Reserved

Save 30-55%

App Services

Azure App Service Reserved capacity

Save 30-50%

Real RI Savings Stories

Companies that made the switch to Reserved Instances

$248K/year
E-commerce Platform
Before: 120 production VMs on-demand
After: Converted 100 stable VMs to 1-year RIs
ROI achieved in 3 months
$143K/year
FinTech Startup
Before: All databases on-demand pricing
After: Reserved capacity for 8 production databases
Saved 47% on database costs
$521K/year
Enterprise SaaS
Before: 300+ resources on-demand
After: Mixed 1-year and 3-year RI strategy
Reduced cloud spend by 41%

RI Analysis Across All Clouds

Azure

  • • Azure Reserved VM Instances
  • • SQL Reserved Capacity
  • • App Service Reserved
  • • Storage Reserved Capacity

AWS

  • • EC2 Reserved Instances
  • • RDS Reserved Instances
  • • Compute Savings Plans
  • • Redshift Reserved Nodes

Google Cloud

  • • Committed Use Discounts
  • • Sustained Use Discounts
  • • Cloud SQL Commitments
  • • BigQuery Reservations

More Cost Optimization Features

Automated VM Hibernation

Auto-stop dev/test VMs when not in use. Perfect complement to RIs.

Weekly Change Tracking

Track new resources that should be added to RI coverage.

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