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Joe Hetherton posted Fri March 13, 2026 09:58 AM

hello 

has anyone created a report to visualise the savings captured from using a Azure Reserved Instance?

My thoughts are the key values needed are List price, amortized cost, Microsoft MACC agreement discount. what formula would you use to workout the savings captured?

Thanks

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Varad Rajeev Muthal posted Tue March 24, 2026 10:32 AM  Best Answer
Hi @Joe Hetherton - hope this will help you 

How to access and view Azure Savings Plan reports in Cloudability:
Accessing Azure Savings Plan Reports
From the Cloudability primary navigation menu:

- Under **Insights**, select **Savings Plans** and then select the **Azure** tab to access your savings plan portfolio
- Under **Optimize**, select **Reserved Instance Planner** and then select the **Azure SP** tab to access your savings plan recommendations [1]

## What You Can View

In the Azure Savings Plan portfolio, you can view an inventory of your current Azure Savings Plans along with summary KPIs for the total quantity and hourly commit of your Savings Plans. You can also view Azure Savings Plan purchase recommendations as well as summary KPI totals including the total number of recommended purchases, the total upfront fees, the estimated net savings, and the estimated savings rate. [1]

## Prerequisites

Before you can access these reports, you need to ensure proper credentials are configured:

Customers need to ensure that the necessary Azure credentials and permissions have been enabled to provide Cloudability with access to their Savings Plan data:
- MCA customers: Configure the billing account reader by role
- EA customers: Regenerate and rerun the script at the EA level [1]

Additionally, the Cloudability application's service principal must already exist in the Azure tenant(s) where the Savings Plan Reader role will be assigned [2].

References:
[1] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSXUJG/cloudability/release-notes/whats-new-2023.html
[2] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSXUJG/cloudability/admin/azure-cm-setup.html
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Varad Rajeev Muthal posted Mon March 16, 2026 09:14 AM

Hello @Joe Hetherton, Thanks for your question, will forward it to SME and get back with answer!
Thanks!

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