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Wave - Feature Overview

A platform for visualising and managing cloud costs.

Written by Yo Fukuda
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Overview

This guide walks you through the features available in Wave. Wave is a platform where Ripple users can issue Wave login credentials for themselves or their customers.

With Wave, you can view daily and monthly cost data in real time. By setting budgets, you can also receive notifications when any resource exceeds the configured threshold, supporting ongoing cost optimisation.


Features

Daily and Monthly Graphs

Daily costs for the past 31 days are displayed as a graph. You can filter by service and switch between daily and monthly views to monitor cost trends. (Wave displays up to 12 months of usage data.)

Specifications:

  • Transfer fees for EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud) and RDS (Amazon Relational Database Service) are displayed as a separate line item under AWS Data Transfer

  • EBS (Amazon Elastic Block Store) charges are included within EC2


Reports

At the start of each month, the previous month's cost report is displayed below the graph, showing detailed usage and cost information at the service level.

Displayed information:

  • Service name

  • Description — region and service details

  • Usage amount

  • Usage fee


Reserved Instances

  • Purchased — A list of purchased RIs, including service, purchasing account, instance type, and other details

  • Utilisation Rate — Displays the utilisation rate of purchased RIs

  • Recommendations — Taking into account already purchased RIs, recommends RI purchases for instances currently running on-demand


Invoice Details

Invoice details display the total service cost per account, including items such as support fees.


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