Reservation & Commitment Health

Monitor reserved instance utilization, coverage gaps, and upcoming expirations. Noros provides full visibility into your existing savings plans, reserved instances, and committed use discounts so you can ensure your commitments are working as hard as they can.

Noros reads the commitments that already exist in your cloud accounts — savings plans and reserved instances you've purchased directly through AWS or GCP. If you haven't purchased any commitments yet, this data will be empty. Ask Noros about your commitment coverage gaps to understand where commitments could save you money.

What Noros Can Tell You

Savings Plans (AWS)

Noros can analyze all types of AWS Savings Plans:

• Compute Savings Plans — Flexible savings across EC2, Lambda, and ECS Fargate workloads

• Database Savings Plans — Coverage for Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, DocumentDB, Neptune, Keyspaces, Timestream, and DMS

• CloudFront Savings Plans — Content delivery savings with a monthly drawdown model

• SageMaker Savings Plans — ML and AI workload savings

Try asking:

• "How are our reserved instances performing?"

• "Show RI utilization across accounts"

• "Which savings plans are underutilized?"

Reserved Instances (AWS)

Noros provides insight into your reserved instances across all supported services:

• RDS — Database reserved instances

• OpenSearch — Search and analytics reservations

• ElastiCache — Caching layer reservations

• Redshift — Data warehouse reservations

• DynamoDB — Provisioned capacity reservations

Try asking:

• "Are any commitments expiring soon?"

• "How much am I saving on RDS reserved instances?"

• "What's my RI utilization this month?"

Committed Use Discounts (GCP)

For Google Cloud environments, Noros can analyze your CUDs:

• Resource-based CUDs — Committed discounts on specific compute resources

• Spend-based CUDs — Flexible discounts based on overall spending

Try asking:

• "What's my CUD coverage?"

• "How are my committed use discounts performing?"

Key Metrics

When discussing your commitments, Noros provides context through key metrics:

• Utilization Rate — The percentage of your commitment capacity that's being actively used

• Coverage — How much of your eligible spend is covered by commitments

• Estimated Savings Rate (ESR) — The effective discount rate you're achieving

• FinOps Score — A composite score (0.0–1.0) reflecting overall commitment efficiency, where 0.7+ is healthy

• Cost per Hour — Hourly commitment cost for trend analysis

• Savings — Dollar amount saved compared to on-demand pricing

FinOps Score

Your FinOps Score is a composite measure of how effectively you're using your cloud commitments. Ask Noros for a quick health check:

• "What's our FinOps score?"

• "How efficient is our cloud spend?"

• "Where can we improve our FinOps practices?"

A score of 0.7 or above is considered healthy. Scores between 0.5 and 0.7 indicate room for improvement, and scores below 0.5 suggest optimization is needed.

FinOps Score is currently available for AWS accounts only.

Multi-Cloud View

If you have both AWS and GCP accounts connected, you can ask Noros about commitments for each provider. Noros operates within the context of your currently selected account, so switch accounts to view commitments across providers.

Example Conversations

Portfolio review:

"How are our reserved instances performing?"

Noros provides a summary of utilization rates, total savings, ESR, and FinOps score across all commitment types.

Identifying waste:

"Show RI utilization across accounts"

Noros lists utilization rates by account and highlights underperforming commitments.

Planning ahead:

"Are any commitments expiring soon?"

Noros lists upcoming expirations so you can plan renewals or adjustments in advance.

Go Further with North

Noros lets you monitor and analyze your commitments. With North, you can go a step further — North actively manages your commitments through Arctic, its AI-driven commitment engine. Arctic buys, sells, and exchanges savings plans and reserved instances on your behalf, with Liquid Cloud Commitments that let you scale up or down without rigid lock-in. Learn more about upgrading →