Company
Date Published
Author
Tomas Kondrotas
Word count
884
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

AWS commitments such as EC2 Reserved Instances and Savings Plans can help significantly reduce cloud costs if fully utilized, and Cast AI provides tools to maximize these benefits by automating the synchronization, tracking, and application of these commitments. The process involves uploading AWS commitments into Cast AI, either by connecting cloud accounts for comprehensive integration or uploading commitments directly for specific account-level management. Once uploaded, these commitments are managed through the Cast AI interface, where users can enable, disable, or assign commitments to clusters, ensuring optimal resource allocation and cost savings. The commitments' impact is visible in the node list, influencing resource allocation and autoscaling, and they are used strategically during cluster rebalancing to replace suboptimal nodes and enhance efficiency. This integration allows for real-time visibility and control over commitment utilization, ensuring clusters operate at peak efficiency and minimize cloud spending, with Cast AI handling the automated management of commitments to prevent savings from being overlooked.