The Umbrella Cost recommendation engine is an automated algorithm designed to optimize cloud resource costs. It includes the necessary steps to implement the recommendation. Our algorithm generates recommendations based on resource usage and customer preferences, leveraging machine learning or heuristics.

Umbrella Cost provides various types of recommendations, with most being native recommendations generated through its in-depth analysis. Additionally, a few recommendations originate from the cloud provider but are processed, qualified, and enriched by the Umbrella Cost engine.

The recommendations are displayed in the Waste Detector and can also be tracked for their implementation progress.

AWS Recommendations

Service	Recommendation Name	Source	GovCloud Support	Category
K8s (EKS)	K8s Workload Rightsizing	Umbrella	No	Right sizing
EKS	EKS Extended Support	Umbrella	No	Generation Upgrade
EC2	EC2 Rightsizing	Native + Umbrella validation	No	Right sizing
EC2	EC2 Generation Upgrade	Umbrella	Yes	Generation Upgrade
EC2	Idle EC2 instance	Native + Umbrella validation	No	Terminate
EC2	Compute Savings Plan	Umbrella	No	Commitments
EC2	Stopped EC2 instance	Umbrella	No	Terminate
EC2	EC2 Unnecessary Data Transfer	Umbrella	Yes	Terminate
Elastic IP	IP Migration v4 to v6	Umbrella	Yes	Generation Upgrade
Elastic IP	IP Unattached	Umbrella	Yes	Unattached
RDS	RDS Right-sizing	Umbrella	No	Right sizing
RDS	RDS Provisioned IOPS	Umbrella	No	Right sizing
RDS	RDS Generation Upgrade	Umbrella	Yes	Generation Upgrade
RDS	RDS Reserved Instance	Umbrella	Yes	Commitments
RDS	Idle RDS Instance	Umbrella	No	Terminate
RDS	RDS Extended Support	Umbrella	Yes	Generation Upgrade
RDS	RDS Storage Type Change	Umbrella	Yes	Generation Upgrade
RDS	RDS Aurora I/O Optimized	Umbrella	No	Generation Upgrade
ECS Fargate	ECS Fargate Right-sizing	Native + Umbrella validation	No	Right sizing
CloudWatch	CloudWatch Logs Class Change	Umbrella	Yes	Generation Upgrade
DynamoDB	Dynamo DB Idle	Umbrella	No	Terminate
Load Balancer	Load Balancer Idle	Umbrella	No	Terminate
S3	S3 Inactive	Umbrella	No	Terminate
S3	S3 Multipart upload	Umbrella	No	Terminate
S3	S3 Storage Class	Umbrella	No	Right sizing
S3	S3 Versioning	Umbrella	No	Terminate
EBS	Unattached EBS	Umbrella	Yes	Unattached
EBS	EBS Type Change	Umbrella	Yes	Generation Upgrade
EBS	Outdated EBS Snapshot	Umbrella	No	Terminate
EBS	AMI Orphaned Snapshot	Umbrella	No	Terminate
AWS Backup	AWS Backup Outdated Snapshot	Umbrella	No	Terminate
Redshift	Redshift Idle	Umbrella	No	Terminate
Redshift	Redshift Reserved Instance	Umbrella	No	Commitments
Neptune	Neptune DB Idle	Umbrella	No	Terminate
OpenSearch	Elasticsearch Idle	Umbrella	No	Terminate
OpenSearch	OpenSearch Reserved Instance	Umbrella	Yes	Commitments
ElastiCache	ElastiCache Reserved Instance	Umbrella	Yes	Commitments
ElastiCache	ElastiCache Idle	Umbrella	No	Terminate
DocumentDB	DocumentDB Idle	Umbrella	No	Terminate
VPC	NAT Gateway Idle	Umbrella	Yes	Terminate
Kinesis	Kinesis Idle	Umbrella	No	Terminate
CloudTrail	Duplicate CloudTrail	Umbrella	No	Terminate
KMS	Disabled KMS	Umbrella	No	Terminate
KMS	Old KMS	Umbrella	No	Terminate
Secret Manager	Unused Secrets	Umbrella	No	Terminate

Azure Recommendations

Service	Recommendation Name	Source	Category
K8s (AKS)	Workload Rightsizing	Umbrella	Right Sizing
Disk	Disk Unattached	Umbrella	Unattached
Disk	Disk Change	Umbrella	Generation Upgrade
Virtual Machine	Virtual Machine Reserved Instance	Native + Umbrella validation	Commitments
Virtual Machine	Virtual Machine Right Sizing	Native + Umbrella validation	Right Sizing
Virtual Machine	Virtual Machine Idle	Umbrella	Commitments
Virtual Machine	Virtual Machine Stopped	Umbrella	Commitments
Database	Database Reserved Instance	Native + Umbrella validation	Commitments
MySQL	MySQL Idle	Umbrella	Terminate
MySQL	MySQL Reserved Capacity	Native + Umbrella validation	Commitments
Cosmos DB	Cosmos DB Idle	Umbrella	Terminate
Cosmos DB	Cosmos Right Sizing	Umbrella	Right Sizing
Cosmos DB	Cosmos DB Reserved Capacity	Native + Umbrella validation	Commitments
Maria DB	Maria DB idle	Umbrella	Terminate
PostgreSQL	PostgreSQL Idle	Umbrella	Terminate
PostgreSQL	PostgreSQL Reserved Capacity	Native + Umbrella validation	Commitments
SQL	SQL Right Sizing	Umbrella	Right Sizing
SQL	SQL Idle	Umbrella	Terminate
SQL	SQL Reserved Capacity	Native + Umbrella validation	Commitments
SQL Data Warehouse	SQL Data Warehouse Reserved Capacity	Native + Umbrella validation	Commitments
Load Balancer	Load Balancer Idle	Umbrella	Terminate
IP	IP Unattached	Umbrella	Unattached
Disk Storage	Snapshot Migration	Umbrella	Terminate
Disk Storage	Outdated Snapshot	Umbrella	Terminate
Data Explorer	Data Explorer Reserved Capacity	Native + Umbrella validation	Commitments
Redis	Redis Reserved Capacity	Native + Umbrella validation	Commitments
App-Service	App-Service Reserved Capacity	Native + Umbrella validation	Terminate
Kusto Unused Data	Kusto Unused Data	Native + Umbrella validation	Terminate

GCP Recommendations

Service	Recommendation Name	Source	Category
Virtual Machine	Virtual Machine Idle	Native + Umbrella validation	Terminate
Virtual Machine	Virtual Machine Right Sizing	Umbrella	Right Sizing
Virtual Machine	Virtual Machine Stopped	Umbrella	Terminate
Disk	Disk Unattached	Native + Umbrella validation	Unattached
CUD	Commitment Usage Discount	Umbrella	Commitments
IP	IP Idle	Umbrella	Terminate