ShareSave provides risk-free Auto-pilot EC2, RDS, ElasticCache, OpenSearch, and Redshift Reserved Instances Management.

ShareSave is ideal for organizations that are growing rapidly and are having difficulties keeping track of everything ranging from server side, CMS stack, API stack, analytics, to linear playout engine.

ShareSave is also ideal for organizations that, during their rapid expansion, over-buy reserved instances at an alarming rate to keep up with the demands and it is now difficult for them to wind down after everything settles. ShareSave can not only help during their expansion but also helps save a substantial percentage on monthly AWS costs with the help of ShareSave RI management, ShareSave Scheduler, and ShareSave Graviton programs.

The following is the list of cost-saving automation under ShareSave:

Real-time, risk-free, hands-free automatic life-cycle management of Amazon EC2 and RDS commitments.

The ShareSave AI engine collects Amazon CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail logs and continuously monitors and analyzes infrastructure usage data points. It then automatically reacts in real time by purchasing RIs upon an increase in compute usage and selling RIs upon a decrease in compute usage. nOps continuously purchases and sells commitments on an hourly basis, depending on your infrastructure’s capacity changes.

ShareSave grabs the most lucrative discounts in the Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace.

Switching workloads to AWS Graviton-based instances that provide the best price-performance for workloads in Amazon EC2.

nOps ShareSave Resource Scheduler makes it easy to pause resources during inactivity and leverages the Amazon EventBridge bus to deliver signals to resources to stop them during inactivity and restart them when they are most likely to be used automatically.

A data-driven approach to recommending new autoscaling configurations and real-time optimization opportunities based on your actual usage:

Low and no code, one-click automation built into every recommendation you see.

The RDS recommendations clearly describe the optimization approach you should take and shows the recommendations to implement.

nOps looks at the utilization metrics and determines time periods when RDS instances are running but are inactive. The insights that nOps gather from your utilization partners turn into scheduling recommendations that you can implement to immediately start savings and reducing your spend.

The Sharesave Dashboard provides clear visibility of the potential savings that can be achieved using the nOps Platform. The ShareSave program is able to process 6 months' worth of data.

nOps continually refines its savings recommendations and strives to take ShareSave to absolute perfection.

The ShareSave Dashboard consists of three sections:

In the Savings Summary, you will find:

You can also select the following tabs within the Saving Summary and Breakdown section to see a graphical representation and breakdown of your savings with respect to date and opportunity type:

The List of Opportunities section consists of the following list:

Actions against the List of Risk-Free Commitments are automatic and are carried out by the nOps ShareSave AI.

In the List of Risk-Free Commitment, click on an opportunity name to expand the list and see the details including resource name, account name, region, previous configuration, suggested configuration, detection date, total savings, and action:

In the List of Graviton, click on an opportunity name to expand the list and see the details including resource name, region, previous configuration, suggested new configuration, detection date, and total savings:

In Resource Scheduler, click on an opportunity name to expand the list and see the details including instance type, account name, region, schedule name, new configuration, confidence level, total saving, and action:

Click on the Schedule button against an opportunity to create an automated schedule to turn the instance on and off with the help of EventBridge. To learn more about the Resource Scheduler, see Utilize nOps Resource Scheduler with EventBridge Integration to Reduce Costs Automatically.

In the Auto Scaling Groups, click on an opportunity name to expand the list and see the details including instance type, account name, current configuration, recommended one-time configuration, recommended dynamic configuration, scheduling status, one-time configuration savings, dynamic configuration savings, and action:

Click on the Schedule button in the Action column against the opportunity for the Autoscaling Group that you want to schedule. This will open up a list with two options: Create One-Time Configuration and Create Dynamic Configuration. Select your desired configuration.

If you select Create One-Time Configuration, you will see the one-time configuration screen. Populate the fields and click Create to create the schedule:

If you select Create Dynamic Configuration, you will see the dynamic configuration screen. Populate the fields and click Create to create the schedule:

In the Amazon Relational Database Service, click on an opportunity name to expand the list and see the details including resource name, RDS type, instance size, account name, region, current schedule, recommended schedule, total savings, and action:

Click on any opportunity name to see the details of the resource and its usage pattern:

To schedule a recommendation, click the Schedule button against the recommendation. If you click the Schedule button, you will see two options:

To create a new schedule, based on the nOps recommendation, click Create New Schedule, all fields will be prepopulated according to the recommendation. Simply click Create to start reducing your spend:

To attach an existing schedule to the RDS resource(s), click the Attach Existing Schedule button, select an existing schedule from the dropdown list, and click Attach.

Use the Filter section, to apply filters on the entire ShareSave dashboard based on the selected cloud accounts and opportunity types:

You must have access to your AWS Master Payer Account ID. With this ID, we will be able to generate a $5 Market Place Private Offer (MPPO) and send it over to you. It's very easy to accept the offer and onboard an account.

nOps recommends that you link your AWS accounts to nOps with Automatic Setup. If you are an advanced AWS user and have specific requirements, you can also link your account to nOps with Manual Setup, Multi-Account Setup with Terraform, and Multi-Account Setup with CloudFormation.

If you are an existing nOps customer, in order to get access to all the cost saving features of ShareSave, you might need to update the IAM permissions for nOps. To update the IAM permissions:

In the scope of this document, we will go through the configuration of ShareSave - List of Risk-Free Commitments.

To learn about ShareSave - Resource Scheduler and its configuration, see Utilize nOps Resource Scheduler with EventBridge Integration to Reduce Costs Automatically. To learn about the ShareSave - List of Graviton and its configuration, see Graviton.

To configure ShareSave - List of Risk-free Commitment, follow these steps:

ShareSave - List of Risk-Free Commitments configuration is now complete.

Note: It will take upto 24 hours for the data to populate in nOps.