Document history for AWS Compute Optimizer
The following table describes the documentation for this release of AWS Compute Optimizer.
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API version: 2019-11-30
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Latest documentation update: August 15, 2022
The following table describes the documentation for this release of Compute Optimizer.
| Change | Description | Date |
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Compute Optimizer supports rightsizing preferences for memory ultilization headroom | In Compute Optimizer you can use rightsizing recommendation preferences to customize the memory ultilization headroom settings you want Compute Optimizer to use when generating your Amazon EC2 instance recommendations. For more information, see Rightsizing recommendation preferences. | March 28, 2024 |
Compute Optimizer supports new EC2 instance types | Compute Optimizer now provides recommendations for 51 new EC2 instance types, including the C7i, r7i, r8g, x2idn, x2iedn, and hpc7a instances. For more information, see Amazon EC2 instance requirements. | March 25, 2024 |
Compute Optimizer supports rigthsizing recommendation preferences | In Compute Optimizer you can use rightsizing recommendation preferences to customize the settings you want Compute Optimizer to consider when generating your Amazon EC2 and Auto Scaling group instance recommendations. For more information, see Rightsizing recommendation preferences. | November 26, 2023 |
Compute Optimizer supports new specific discounts for rigthsizing recommendations | You can now allow Compute Optimizer to analyze specific pricing discounts, such Saving Plans and Reserved Instances, when generating the estimated cost savings of rightsizing recommendations. For more information, see Savings estimation mode. | November 26, 2023 |
Compute Optimizer supports new EC2 instance types and EBS volumes | Compute Optimizer now provides recommendations for 153 new Amazon EC2 instance types, including the M7a, M7i, M7i-flex, M6a, C7gn, R6a, R7g, X2iezn, I4g, I4i, Hpc7g, and Hpc6id instances. Additionally, Compute Optimizer now supports Provisioned IOPS Amazon EBS volumes that are attached to multiple EC2 instances. For more information, see Amazon EC2 instance requirements. | September 28, 2023 |
Compute Optimizer supports GPU-based EC2 instances | Compute Optimizer now provides rightsizing recommendations for G4dn and P3 instances. For more information, see Amazon EC2 instance requirements. | September 5, 2023 |
Compute Optimizer generates commercial software license recommendations | Compute Optimizer now generates license recommendations for commercial software that run on Amazon EC2. Compute Optimizer only provides Microsoft SQL Server license recommendations. For more information, see Viewing commercial software license recommendations. | August 28, 2023 |
Compute Optimizer supports tag filtering and inferred workload type filtering for recommendations | In Compute Optimizer you can now filter your EC2 instance, EBS volume, Lambda function, and ECS service recommendations by tag key and tag value. Additionally, you can also filter your EC2 recommendations by inferred workload types. For more information, see Viewing EC2 instances recommendations. | May 1, 2023 |
Compute Optimizer supports new EC2 instance types | Compute Optimizer now provides recommendations for 61 new EC2 instance types, including the C6in, R6in, R6idn, M6in, and M6idn instances. For more information, see Amazon EC2 instance requirements. | March 30, 2023 |
Compute Optimizer supports new EBS volume types | Compute Optimizer now provides recommendations for three new EBS volume types: HDD
| March 30, 2023 |
Compute Optimizer supports EC2 suspension workloads | Compute Optimizer can now combine utilization data from intermittent workloads to generate EC2 recommendations. For more information, see Amazon EC2 instance requirements. | March 30, 2023 |
Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for Amazon ECS services on Fargate | Compute Optimizer now generates recommendations for Amazon ECS services on Fargate. For more information, see Recommendations for Amazon ECS services on Fargate. | December 22, 2022 |
Compute Optimizer launches external metrics ingestion feature | Compute Optimizer can now ingest and analyze external EC2 memory utilization metrics from one of the four observability products to generate EC2 rightsizing recommendations that provide you with additional savings and enhanced performance. For more information, see External metrics ingestion. | November 28, 2022 |
Compute Optimizer supports new EC2 instance types and Windows memory metrics | Compute Optimizer now provides recommendations for 37 new EC2 instance types, including the
M6i.metal, C6i.metal, C7g, and
Hpc6a instances. Additionally, Compute Optimizer now prioritizes the | October 7, 2022 |
Compute Optimizer launches delegated administrator feature | Now in Compute Optimizer, an organization's management accounts can delegate a member account as an administrator for their organization. The delegated administrator can access and manage Compute Optimizer recommendations. The delegated administrator can also set recommendation preferences for your entire organization without the need to access the management account. For more information, see Delegate an administrator account. | August 15, 2022 |
Updated an AWS managed policy for AWS Compute Optimizer | The | July 25, 2022 |
Compute Optimizer adds support for additional Amazon EC2 instance types | Compute Optimizer now supports C5d, C6a, C6i, I2, Im4gn, Is4gen, M5ad, M6a, M6i, and R6i Amazon EC2 instance types. These instance types are supported in all the AWS Regions where both these instance types and Compute Optimizer are available. This update doesn't apply in the China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia) Regions. For more information, see Amazon EC2 instance requirements. | April 7, 2022 |
Workload-aware recommendations and migration effort now available | With the new inferred workload types feature, Compute Optimizer can infer the applications that might be running on your resources. Examples include EC2 instances and Auto Scaling groups. Compute Optimizer does this by analyzing the attributes of your resources, such as resource names, tags, and configuration. By inferring applications, Compute Optimizer can generate recommendations that take your applications into account. It can also identify the level of effort required to migrate from the current instance type to the recommended instance type. For more information, see Inferred workload type. | January 10, 2022 |
View savings and performance improvement opportunities for your resources, and activate enhanced infrastructure metrics | Identify your biggest cost and performance improvement opportunities in the new Savings opportunity and Performance improvement opportunity sections of the dashboard. For more information, see Viewing the AWS Compute Optimizer dashboard. You can also now extend the metrics analysis lookback period for EC2 instances and Auto Scaling groups up to three months. By default, the lookback period is 14 days. To do this, activate enhanced infrastructure metrics. The enhanced infrastructure metrics feature is a paid feature of Compute Optimizer. For more information, see Activating enhanced infrastructure metrics. | November 29, 2021 |
Updated AWS managed policies for AWS Compute Optimizer | The | November 29, 2021 |
AWS Graviton based instance recommendations | Compute Optimizer now provides the price and performance impact for running your workload on AWS Graviton based instances. For more information, see AWS Graviton-based instance recommendations. If your account is your organization's management account, you can now also view the member accounts of an organization that are opted in to Compute Optimizer. For more information, see Viewing the accounts opted in to AWS Compute Optimizer. | August 26, 2021 |
Amazon EC2 instance recommendations enhancements | Compute Optimizer now supports a wider range of Amazon EC2 instance types. Compute Optimizer evaluates a wider range of instance metrics to generate recommendations and provides finding instance recommendations reasons. Compute Optimizer also describes the platform differences between the current instance and the recommended instance type. For more information, see Amazon EC2 instance requirements, EC2 instance metrics, Finding reasons, and Platform differences. | May 24, 2021 |
Recommendations export for Amazon EBS volumes and Lambda functions | You can now export recommendations for Amazon EBS volumes and Lambda functions to Amazon S3. For more information, see Exporting recommendations. | May 18, 2021 |
Adding documentation for AWS managed policies | Compute Optimizer now tracks changes for its AWS managed policies. For more information, see AWS managed policies for AWS Compute Optimizer. | May 18, 2021 |
AWS Lambda function recommendations | Compute Optimizer now generates recommendations for AWS Lambda functions. For more information, see Viewing AWS Lambda function recommendations. | December 23, 2020 |
Amazon EBS volume recommendations | Compute Optimizer now generates recommendations for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes. For more information, see Viewing EBS volume recommendations. | December 3, 2020 |
Amazon EBS metrics and encrypted S3 buckets | Compute Optimizer now analyzes the read/write operations per second (ops), and the read/write bytes per second (Bps) of the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes that are attached to an instance. The data is used to generate recommendations. You can also view EBS read/write bandwidth (operations per second), and EBS read/write throughput (KiBps) graphs in the Compute Optimizer console. For more information, see Viewing EC2 instance recommendations. You can also now export recommendations to encrypted Amazon S3 buckets. For more information, see Exporting recommendations. | October 7, 2020 |
Recommendations export | Recommendations can be exported to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). For more information, see Exporting recommendations. | June 10, 2020 |
Self-service opt-out | AWS Command Line Interface now supports self-service opt-out. For more information, see Opting out your account. | April 6, 2020 |
Service release | Compute Optimizer released. | December 2, 2019 |
