This past quarter, we delivered a series of enhancements across Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud—designed to drive greater savings, increase visibility, and minimize cloud waste. From making Autonomous Discount Management (ADM) for Azure generally available to introducing a more dynamic management approach to spend-based committed-use discounts to expanding multiple capabilities, here’s a look at the key ProsperOps product updates from the third quarter of 2025.
Autonomous Discount Management (ADM) for Microsoft Azure is Generally Available
We have made several enhancements to ADM for Azure. Highlights include the new Commitments Dashboard, which tracks Commitment Lock-In Risk (CLR), monitors commitment burndown, and complements Effective Savings Rate (ESR). Intelligent Showback now supports Azure, enabling equitable cost and savings allocation across subscriptions (more details below). Our algorithm also continuously recalculates and implements the optimal coverage, maximizing your savings and ESR. Plus, multi-currency support and Azure Marketplace integration simplify global procurement and billing.
Learn more about this release here.
Intelligent Showback Expands Support to Microsoft Azure
Cost allocation for centralized commitment management can be challenging. Cost is incurred where the commitment is purchased, not where it is consumed, and the allocation of savings benefits is non-deterministic. Native tooling does not provide a mechanism to equitably redistribute commitment expenses and benefits. Intelligent Showback™ for Azure fixes this by automatically reallocating costs and savings to the resources that actually use them, at a granular level, by region and resource-type combination. With this new capability, your FinOps and accounting teams can close the books faster and more accurately.
Learn more about this release here.
Adaptive Laddering for Spend-based CUDs in Google Cloud
Recent trends and evolutions in Google’s billing model led us to introduce a more dynamic management approach to spend-based committed-use discounts (CUD): Adaptive Laddering for spend-based CUDs. This lets us optimize effective savings while minimizing commitment risk by spreading small incremental purchases over a period of time, enabling more discount flexibility to make adjustments as usage changes. Expanding our Adaptive Laddering capability to support spend-based CUDs enables a few key benefit for Google Cloud customers:
- Save on more resource types and services — With the recent spend-based CUDs program improvements, coverage is expanding by 40% to cover 18 machine series. This is in addition to the expanded coverage of Local-SSD, GKE Autopilot, and Cloud Run.
- Save on machine upgrades — Google Cloud introduced a total of 12 machine series up to the beginning of 2023. Since 2023, 15 additional machine series have been introduced. The horizontal flexibility of spend-based CUDs allow customers to migrate to these new machine series when they are ready and not when resource-based CUDs expire.
- Leverage private pricing agreements. Many of our enterprise customers negotiate custom discount rates on spend-based CUDs. Adaptive Laddering this discount instrument allows you to maximize your negotiated rate savings.
ESR Benchmarking Data Available in the ProsperOps Console
We have integrated Effective Savings Rate (ESR) benchmarking data from our 2025 AWS Compute ESR Benchmark Report directly into the ProsperOps console to let customers quantify their savings performance relative to industry peers. ESR is a FinOps standard metric that measures realized savings from rate optimization activities. This integration enables teams to understand where they stand and their outstanding savings potential.
Learn more about this release here.
Get Granular on AWS Non-compute Savings Outcome Using Savings Scopes
Savings Scopes are now available across a broad range of AWS Non-Compute services, including RDS, ElastiCache, OpenSearch, MemoryDB and Redshift. Customers can use the “All Discounts” view to comprehensively understand savings outcomes from commitments and Enterprise Discount Programs/Private Pricing Agreements. Or use the “RI-Only” view that focuses solely on savings from RIs.
Learn more about this release here.
ProsperOps Scheduler Expands Support to Amazon RDS
Earlier this year, we launched ProsperOps Scheduler™, the only cloud resource scheduler that integrates with rate optimization automation. Now, we’ve expanded support to Amazon RDS, enabling customers to schedule RDS resources just like EC2 instances. This is especially valuable for non-production environments—like dev, staging, or UAT—where databases don’t need to run 24/7. Engineers get distributed control to manage schedules, while FinOps teams retain centralized visibility into schedules, state changes, and cost avoidance.
Learn more about this release here.
Stay tuned as we continue to deliver value to help you save more on cloud spend through rate and workload optimization.
In the meantime, check out our newly released 2025 Rate Optimization Insights on AWS Compute: a data-backed look at savings performance across approximately $3 billion in AWS compute usage across Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, and AWS Fargate. The report highlights key trends in Effective Savings Rate (ESR), rate optimization adoption, and the evolving strategies driving savings outcomes on AWS.
Prosper On! 🖖
Roshnee Mistry Shah
