Overview
Aqua is accessible from the left menu in Wave. It provides a suite of features to help optimise your cloud costs, including monitoring and managing Reserved Instances (RI) and Savings Plans (SP).
Dashboard
The Wave & Aqua dashboard allows you to build a personalised view by pinning the metrics you want to monitor. Widgets can be saved and rearranged to suit your workflow.
Available widgets include:
RI and SP purchase recommendations
Utilisation rate per account
Instance Usage
The Instance Usage section visualises on-demand usage, RI, and SP coverage rates per account. You can use this data to evaluate RI and SP purchases and monitor whether you are meeting your target coverage rate on a daily basis.
The lower section breaks down on-demand usage by service, helping you identify which RI or SP purchases would have the greatest cost reduction impact:
On-demand costs per instance family
On-demand usage hours per instance family
On-demand usage hours per instance type
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Instance Reservation Management
This section allows you to manage your purchased RIs and SPs in a consolidated list across multiple accounts, reducing management overhead. You can also visualise the utilisation rate of purchased RIs to measure their effectiveness.
An alert feature is available to notify you before an RI or SP is about to expire, so renewals are never missed.
Recommendations
The Recommendations section provides three types of recommendations:
RI / SP Purchase Recommendations — Suggests optimal RI and SP purchases based on your usage
Instance Size Optimisation — Recommends instance downsizing opportunities
Scheduling — Recommends usage schedules based on instance activity by day and time
Need More Help?
If any errors occur during the process or if you have any questions, please reach out to us:
📧 Email: ripple_cs@alphaus.cloud
💬 Live Chat: Available in the bottom-right corner of your dashboard
📖 Help Center: https://help.alphaus.cloud/