Overview

The Savings Plan Utilization page provides comprehensive monitoring and analysis of your AWS Savings Plans performance, status, and inventory. This dashboard enables you to track utilization/coverage rates, identify optimization opportunities, and maximize cost savings across your AWS infrastructure.

Key Capabilities

Real-Time Performance Monitoring

• Track utilization and coverage metrics across all active Savings Plans.
• Monitor net savings and waste in real-time.
• View Effective Savings Rate (ESR) to measure overall performance.
• Compare on-demand equivalent costs against actual spending.

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All KPI values dynamically reflect the selected date range and any additional filters applied in the view.

Multi-Dimensional Filtering

Access granular views of your Savings Plans through customizable filters:

• Date Range: Analyze historical trends or focus on specific periods.
• Region: Filter by AWS region to understand geographic cost distribution.
• Linked Account: View utilization across organizational accounts.
• Account Tags: Group and analyze by custom tagging strategies.
• Savings Plan Type: Filter by Compute, EC2 Instance, DataBases or SageMaker plans.
• Savings Plan ARN: Drill down to individual plan performance.
• Customer: The filter is also available for MSPs.

Dashboard Metrics

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Tips

• The metrics correspond to the selected filters.
• The metrics panel can be saved as dashboard panels.

• Annual Potential Savings: Represent the annual savings derived from the Savings Plan recommendation if it exists in the waste detector for the chosen set of filters.

• Utilization: Utilization weighted average, based on the metrics utilization consumed from AWS.

  

• Net Savings:Total actual savings realized from your Savings Plans

• Total Waste: Unused commitment costs (indicates underutilization)

• ESR: Effective Savings Rate (ESR) measures the actual percentage saved compared to On-Demand pricing across all your Savings Plans.

• Recurring Fee: Total ongoing commitment costs across all plans.

• On-Demand Equivalent: What these resources would cost at on-demand rates.

Performance Graphs

Utilization Graph

The utilization graph displays daily/hourly utilization percentage over time. and helps identify usage patterns and trends. Supports hourly, daily, and monthly views.

• Umbrella is using AWS GET SP Utilization API to retrieve the utilization data per all plans combined and per the plan.
• Required permissions ce:GetSavingsPlansUtilization.

Coverage Graph

The coverage graph tracks coverage stability over time and shows the percentage of eligible usage covered by Savings Plans.

• Umbrella is using AWS GET SP Coverage API to retrieve the utilization data per all plans combined and per the plan.
• Required permissions ce:GetSavingsPlansCoverage.

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Tips

The graphs can be saved as dashboard panels

Savings Plans Table

• The table can be filtered by Active, Expired this month, and Expired.
• Click on any Savings Plan row to expand detailed information:
  • Details: Full commitment details.
  • Chargeback: List of resources consuming this Savings Plan commitment.
  • Overview Charges: Utilization breakdown for this Savings Plan commitment.

Detailed Plan View

Click on any Savings Plan row to expand detailed information:

• Details: Full commitment details.
• Chargeback: List of resources consuming this Savings Plan commitment.
• Overview Charges: Utilization breakdown for this Savings Plan commitment.
• The detailed table view provides plan-level insights:

  • Linked Account Name: AWS account associated with the plan.

  • Type: Plan type (ComputeSavingsPlans, EC2InstanceSavingsPlans, SageMakerSavingsPlans).

  • Purchase Option: Payment structure (No Upfront, Partial Upfront, All Upfront).

  • Purchase Term: Commitment duration (1 Year or 3 Years).

  • Hourly Commitment: Dollar amount committed per hour.

  • Net Savings: Actual savings generated by this plan.

  • Waste: Unused commitment costs.

  • Status: Plan health indicator (Active, Expired).

  • Utilization: Current utilization percentage with visual indicator

    🟢 Green checkmark: Healthy utilization (typically >90%) 🟡 Yellow warning: Moderate utilization concerns 🔴 Red alert: Significant underutilization

  • Start Date: When the plan became active.

  • End Date: Plan expiration date.

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All KPI values dynamically reflect the selected date range and any additional filters applied in the view.

ChargeBack

The Chargeback view shows how a Savings Plan commitment is consumed across your AWS resources. Each resource is charged based on its actual usage that benefited from the Savings Plan.

With the Chargeback view, you can:

• See which resources consumed the Savings Plan.
• Understand how much of the commitment was applied to each resource.
• Accurately allocate discounted costs for chargeback or showback purposes.

Overview Charts

This view shows the utilization for the selected Savings Plan commitment.