IBM Cloudability Feature

Rightsizing

Maximize savings while maintaining application performance

Since cloud providers bill for services provisioned, rather than what is consumed, identifying and managing cloud resource utilization is critical to avoiding waste.

IBM Cloudability’s rightsizing feature provides a powerful, intuitive interface for drilling into scale up, scale down and terminate recommendations, enabling you to find, implement and track the success of your rightsizing opportunities.

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IBM has been recognized as a Leader for the second year in a row in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Financial Management Tools.

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“IBM provides the most complete full-stack CCMO solution,” according to the Forrester Wave™: Cloud Cost Management and Optimization Solutions, Q3 2024.

Visibility for each resource across multiple dimensions

IBM Cloudability’s rightsizing feature provides a powerful, intuitive interface for drilling into recommendations to scale up, scale down, and terminate resources, enabling you to find, implement, and track the success of your rightsizing opportunities.

Built on high quality utilization and performance data

Cloudability ingests utilization and performance data from leading observability tools, feeding it into our proprietary models to provide you with a list of optimal rightsizing recommendations. This information is crucial when it comes to managing important factors such as memory consumption and the impact on response times. With detailed visibility into all key metrics, engineers are well armed to make the necessary cost-performance trade-offs.

Integrations for rightsizing recommendations

Enable DevOps and finance to create embedded tasks or Jira issues directly from our rightsizing recommendations. Empower teams with the ability to estimate actual ROI through progress and implementation tracking.

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Cloudability features

With IBM Cloudability, FinOps teams from finance to engineering to product and organizational leadership can all work together to maximize the value of their cloud spend. Cloudability’s robust features address fundamental FinOps domains and capabilities.

Complete ownership and visibility

Gain complete ownership and visibility across all cloud and AI spend through a single pane of glass, 100% cost allocation, and personalized views that give every team a clear understanding of what they own.

Confidence to scale and invest

Scale cloud and AI investments with confidence, guided by unit economics, accurate forecasting, and proactive budget and anomaly alerts that surface risk early and enable innovation without losing financial control.

Unmatched cost efficiency

Make every cloud dollar work harder with automation, insights, and proactive governance that continuously reduce waste, improve commitment effectiveness, and sustain cost efficiency as environments evolve.

Integrations

Cloudability works well with others! Robust integrations enable inputs from other data sources for a full picture of your cloud costs.

Additional Resources

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