Supported types

Reserved Instances (RIs)	Savings Plans (SPs)
App Service	Compute SP
Block Blob
Cache for Redis
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Virtual Machines

Inventory

Purpose: This section is designed to give you a high level overview of your existing Azure RI/SP portfolio.

Commitment KPIs: These values reflect the currently applied inventory filters.

Total Commitments: Number of active commitments you have with Azure over the selected time period
Total Cost: Total cost of the Azure commitment over the selected time period
Recurring Cost: Any monthly recurring (amortized) RI or SP payments over the selected time period
Utilization: Utilization percentage of the filtered RI/SPs over the selected time period

Coverage Details:

Amortized SP Cost: Daily cost amortized of your Savings Plan. For example, $1/hour in a Compute Savings Plan would be $24/day.
Amortized RI cost: Daily amortized cost of your Reserved Instance.
On-Demand cost: Daily cost of your On-Demand usage.
Unused RI/SP Cost: Cost of unused RI/SP usage hours or hourly $ commit

Inventory Table

Commitment details:

Type: Savings Plan or Reserved Instance
Commitment Name: Name of the commitment given to the RI/SP when it was created. It helps you to easily identify a specific reservation in your Azure environment.
Total Cost: Total cost of the RI/SP over the selected time period either upfront or in monthly installments.
Upfront Cost: Total upfront cost (if any) of the RI/SP
Average Utilization Percentage: Average utilization of the RI/SP over the selected time period
Quantity: Represents the number of instances reserved. For example, if you reserve 3 instances of a particular VM type, this field will show "3". It is important for managing the scale of your reserved resources.
Sku Name: Details the specific configuration of the reserved instances, including aspects such as virtual machine type, region, series and operating system.
Term: Indicates the duration of the RI/SP, which can be either 1 year or 3 years. Shows how long the RI/SP is valid before it expires.
Purchase Date: Date the RI/SP was purchased and the date discounts begin to be applied to eligible services.
Expiration Date: Date when the RI/SP expires. After this date, the services return to On-Demand rates unless covered by another RI/SP
Region: If applicable, displays the region where the savings plan or reserved instance is applied.

Inventory uses a 7-, 14-, 30- or 60-day lookback (default 30), ending on the preceding UTC day. The purchase-date cutoff is one year before the lookback start for one-year commitments, and three years before it for three-year commitments; purchases on or after the applicable cutoff are included. Commitment type and Service narrow the coverage chart. ID, name, SKU, region and term narrow the table and Commitment KPIs, but not that chart.

Current export scope: Export includes the loaded inventory before local type and table filters, so the CSV may contain rows outside the visible table.

Recommendations

Recommendation KPIs:

Total Purchase Recommendations: Total number of available recommendations for the purchase options you specified
Estimated Monthly savings: Estimated amount of total monthly savings by using Savings Plans or Reserved Instances compared to standard On-Demand rates.
Estimated Total Savings: Projected savings over the proposed commitment's term compared with On-Demand pricing; these savings have not yet been realized.
Estimated Savings percentage: Estimated savings percentage over On-Demand if recommendations are purchased and fully utilized.
Total RI cost: Total cost of the RI/SP over the entire term, either upfront or in monthly installments. This is the total commitment for the reservations.

Compare a hypothetical selection

Use the recommendation selection controls to explore a possible Azure commitment purchase. These controls update an estimate; they do not purchase or reserve resources.

Open Recommendations on the Azure Commitment Discounts page.
Choose the payer, Reserved Instance or Savings Plan, Service, term and lookback for the scenario. Wait for the recommendations to load.
Use the plus action to move a recommendation into the selected list. Review the estimated savings, cost and utilization for the proposed commitment and compare the estimated overlay with the historical usage/cost chart.
Use the minus action to return a selected recommendation to the available list and compare another combination.
To start a scenario with different inputs, change the commitment type, payer, term or lookback. These changes clear the selection, so review the new recommendations before choosing another combination.

Use the historical chart as context for the estimated overlay. Do not assume that it shows only the filtered recommendation rows: changing Service can narrow the recommendation list while leaving the historical chart unchanged.

Recommendations Table - Reserved Instances

Commitment $: Cost of commitment
Coverage Type: Specifies the type of reserved instance, such as VM reservation, SQL Database reservation, App Service reservation, etc. Indicates which Azure service or resource type the reservation is for.
Savings $: Estimated savings for the proposed reservation compared with On-Demand pricing.
On Demand $: Estimated cost of On-Demand usage over the selected time period.
Savings %: Percentage of savings over On-Demand pricing over the selected time period.
Utilization %: Estimated utilization of the proposed commitment, rather than actual consumption of an already purchased commitment.
Overage Cost: Represents the costs incurred when your usage exceeds the capacity covered by your Savings Plan or Reserved Instances.
Total Cost: Total cost of the commitment and overage.
Instance Type: This specifies the type of reserved instance such as VM reservation, SQL database reservation, App Service reservation, etc. Indicates which Azure service or resource type the reservation is for.
Location: Geographic region where the reserved instance is applicable.

Recommendations Table - Savings Plans

Commitment $: Proposed hourly commitment over the term. For example, purchasing a $5/hour commitment would obligate you to pay $5 each hour regardless of consumption.
Coverage Type: Type of commitment in the recommendation.
Total Savings: The estimated amount saved by using Savings Plans or Reserved Instances compared to standard On-Demand rates.
On Demand Cost: Estimated cost of On-Demand usage over the selected time period.
Savings %: Percentage of savings over On-Demand pricing over the selected time period.
Utilization %: Estimated utilization of the proposed commitment, rather than actual consumption of an already purchased commitment.
Overage Cost: Represents the costs incurred when your usage exceeds the capacity covered by your Savings Plan or Reserved Instances.
Total Cost: Estimated total cost of the commitment and overage.
Instance Type: This specifies the type of reserved instance such as VM reservation, SQL database reservation, App Service reservation, etc. Indicates which Azure service or resource type the reservation is for.
Granularity: Option you have selected, either Monthly or Daily for Amortization of SP cost for chargeback/showback.
Total Hours: Total hours covered by the proposed Savings Plan.
Total Remaining Cost: Estimated remaining cost in the proposed Savings Plan scenario.
Location: Geographic region where the savings plan is applied. Some savings plans may have region specific benefits, this helps to understand where the plan is active.