Capacity Planner Release Notes 112

Overview

Released: February 2022

Capacity Planner release notes contain the list of all new or enhanced features and a list of all issues fixed in the current release.

To view the recent highlights in Capacity Planner, see What's New in Capacity Planner.

Highlights

These are the highlights of this release:

• RDS recommendations
  Capacity Planner now provides compute recommendations for Amazon RDS machines. These recommendations consider CPU and memory utilisation and, based on your chosen statistical measures and model, will recommend an appropriate configuration. RDS configuration options are available to restrict recommendations to ensure only specific engines, processors, network, and storage performance constraints are considered.
  These recommendations are displayed in the Recommend panel, in a new RDS Recommendations tab. AWS EC2 compute recommendations are now displayed in the EC2 Recommendations tab.
  For more information, see Recommendations documentation.

• RDS metrics
  Amazon provides a comprehensive view of RDS specific metrics for each instance as part of the service. Capacity Planner records these metrics and provides the statistical analysis and trending that is expected. Each of these metrics is available either from the right-click Headroom window or within the Metrics Explorer.
  When Metrics Explorer is opened for a group of RDS machines, a subset of the RDS specific metrics is shown by default. This list can be changed by using the settings icon on the right hand side of the interface.

• Cloud Service grouping
  You can now easily differentiate between instances or machines that make use of various cloud services using the new Cloud Service grouping. It can be used in the sunburst, timeburst, and reporting to identify EC2 or RDS machines.
  As support is added for further services across providers, this will expand to cover those services as well.

• Enhanced Savings Plans recommendations
  Savings Plans recommendations now take into consideration existing Reservation purchases before providing an optimised hourly rate across all accounts for AWS compute Savings Plans.

• Enhanced recommendation engine
  Changes have been made to the recommendation engine to provide increased flexibility, configurability, and improved performance.

• AWS EC2 Cost Coverage over Time report
  This report provides a comprehensive combined view of your EC2 running costs and an insight into how effective current saving mechanisms are. In an AWS environment there are up to four time series displayed:

  • Undiscounted costs

  • Total current costs

  • Savings Plans

  • Reserved Instances.

  For more information, see AWS EC2 cost coverage over time report documentation.

New features and enhancements

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issues fixed

These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

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