How do I adjust cloud pricing settings?

You can adjust the settings for each of the cloud providers you want to include in your pricing assessment - This article provides information on changing the pricing settings

Update cloud provider's selection

In the cloud provider section, you will be able to include/exclude which cloud providers you want to use as part of a pricing assessment. 

Detailed information on the impact of changing available cloud providers can be found here.

Adjust the Standard Configuration settings

Recommend based on "Configuration"

If "Recommend based on Configuration" is selected, then AppScore will match your on-premise VMs to cloud provider VMs based on a like-for-like configuration.

The following data needs to be provided for servers for matching to occur:

• Operating System
• Current CPU
• Current RAM
• Current Storage

Recommend based on "Utilisation"

If "Recommend based on Utilisation" is selected, then AppScore will match your on-premise VMs to cloud provider VMs based on utilisation metrics provided to the platform.

The following data needs to be provided for servers for matching to occur:

• Operating System
• Current RAM
• Current CPU
• Current Storage
• Utilisation Metrics required for
  • CPU Peak/Average
  • Memory Peak/Average

(8 x 0.25) + ((8 x 0.25) x 0.5) = 3

Adjust the AWS Configuration Settings

• "AWS Region" - select the appropriate region where you would like to deploy your VM workloads.
• "Reservation Type" - select whether you would like to show pricing for standard or convertible reservations.
• "Reservation Purchase Type" - select purchase type based on how you would like to purchase for AWS reservations (No-upfront/Partial Upfront/All Upfront)
• "Support AWS Burstable Instances" - select whether you would like burstable instances (T-series) to be considered when matching your on-premise VMs to AWS instance types.
• Click "Save"

Adjust the Azure Configuration Settings

• "Azure Region" - select the appropriate region where you would like to deploy your VM workloads.
• "Support Azure Dev/Test and Burstable Instances" - select whether you would like Dev/Test instances to be considered when matching your on-premise VMs to Azure instance types.
• "Use Azure Hybrid Benefit" - select whether you would like Azure Hybrid Benefit pricing to be used for Windows-based workloads. 
• Click "Save"

Adjust the GCP Configuration Settings

• "GCP Region" - select the appropriate region where you would like to deploy your VM workloads.
• Click "Save"

Adjust the OCI Configuration Settings