Step-by-step guide to configuring RI purchase preferences
Prerequisites:
- Recommendation Module should be switched on for Tenant
- User should be Admin
Description:
EC2 and RDS RI Recommendations are being calculated based on the default configurations defined within the Yotascale recommendations settings. The following aspects of RI purchasing can be defined:
- Reserved Instance (RI) Types
- Preferred Term
- Scope Preference
- Offer type
- Purchase account preference
Reserved Instance (RI) Types
The RI type that can be used in purchase recommendations made by YotaScale.
- Standard RIs (Default value)
- Modify instance size during the term
- Instance type cannot be modified
- Cannot be exchanged only modified
- Can be sold in the RI Marketplace
- See Modifying RIs on AWS(7 mins read)
- Convertible RIs
- Can Modify some attributes
- Can be exchanged for another convertible instances
- Cannot be sold in RI marketplace
- See Exchanging Convertible Instances on AWS(5 mins read)
Preferred Term
The purchase term that can be used in YotaScale recommendations.
- 1 year (Default value)
- 3 year
Scope Preference
The scope types that be be available. AWS Payment Types and Policies(5 mins read)
- Regional (Default value)
- Availability Zone
Offer type
The offer type that be be available. AWS Payment Types and Policies(5 mins read)
- No Upfront
- Partial Upfront (Default value)
- All Upfront
Purchase account preference
Options to buy AZ scoped RIs at:
- Payer Account (Default value)
- Linked Account
Options to buy Regional RIs at:
- Payer Account (Default value)
- Linked Account
Steps to complete:
- Navigate to the Dimensions view by clicking your user name in the top right of the page
- Click "Account Settings" from the drop down menu
- From the sub-navigation pane on Top select "Recommendations".
- From Left-side-bar-menu click Purchase Preferences --> EC2 RI Purchases / RDS RI Purchases
- Make required changes and click Save Changes button on top or click Discard Changes if you want to retain old settings and you can also reset to default configs by click Rest to Default
Note: Recommendations will be re-calculated after changing the configuration in next scheduled run.