Faq
These are recommendations for EC2 and RDS Reserved Instances. If you’re not familiar, Reserved Instances (RIs) are commitments to use a specific instance for a specified period of time, offering big discounted pricing for long-term commitment. MilkStraw AI allows you to take advantage of the discounts without the long-term commitments.
The reason you don’t have any saving recommendations is likely because you don’t have any EC2 or RDS instances. At the moment, we only offer savings on EC2 and RDS Instances.
Yes. We will take your existing Savings Plans and Reserved Instances (RIs) into account before making recommendations.
We only purchase no-upfront Reserved Instances (RIs), meaning that you will not be charged more when an RI is purchased.
No, we work only on the billing layer and we are unable to modify your environment. There is a 0% chance for any server downtime or interruptions.
No. We only require setting up an IAM policy and an IAM role in your AWS organization. We take over from there.
You will be able to start seeing savings immediately after you set up your account! We start by making initial Reserved Instance (RI) purchases that cover your base load, and gradually we cover more and more of your eligible workloads until maximum savings are achieved.
We essentially execute the purchase of the Reserved Instances (RIs) with ZERO interruptions to your workflow. The process happens on the billing layer, and you will just see Reserved Instances (RIs) added to your account’s bill.