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Commitment Coverage Alerts

Commitment coverage alerts notify teams when cloud spend runs uncovered on on-demand pricing, showing the cost impact and how to fix it.

How It Works

Teams compare eligible usage with their target commitment coverage to identify potential savings opportunities while managing underutilization risk. A coverage alert highlights services where coverage is below target, so the team can see which services are running on on-demand pricing and the savings at stake.

How Usage.ai Does It

Usage.ai sends a monthly coverage email highlighting savings opportunities for services where Autopilot is off. The email shows current coverage by service, potential annual savings, and a link to review and enable Autopilot. The Active Commitments dashboard separately displays upcoming expirations, the annual commitment value up for renewal, and changes in portfolio utilization compared with the previous period.

Usage.ai monthly coverage email
Monthly coverage email showing current coverage and potential annual savings for services where Autopilot is off (demo data).
Usage.ai Active Commitments dashboard
Active Commitments shows upcoming expirations, renewal value, and utilization changes against the previous period (demo data).
Related Terms

Commitment Risk Transfer

Commitment risk transfer is the practice of shifting the financial liability of cloud commitment purchases from a customer to a third party that owns and manages those commitments on the customer's behalf.

Commitment Utilization

Commitment utilization is the percentage of purchased Reserved Instance or Savings Plan capacity actually consumed, where underutilization means paying for committed capacity that delivers no savings offset.

Commitment Coverage

Commitment coverage is the percentage of eligible cloud compute spend protected by a discounted commitment, such as a Reserved Instance, Savings Plan, or Committed Use Discount, rather than billed at the higher on-demand rate.