Harness Commitment Orchestrator: A Modernized FinOps Experience

Cloud cost management shouldn’t feel like guesswork, but for most organizations, balancing Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans (SPs), and on-demand usage is exactly that. Too many, and you end up paying for unused commitments. Too few, and you’re stuck paying on-demand rates for resources that could have been discounted.

With the modernized Commitment Orchestrator FinOps experience, Harness has reimagined how teams manage cloud commitments. This update introduces a refreshed interface, enhanced visibility, and the foundation for upcoming AI-powered insights. It also delivers faster performance and streamlined workflows that make it easier than ever to understand commitments and make confident, data-driven decisions.

The Challenge: Finding Balance in a World of Constant Change

Cloud commitments like RIs and SPs were designed to save money, but managing them manually often creates new problems. Workloads evolve, pricing models shift, and business priorities change. Over time, commitments that once made sense can lead to inefficiency or lock-in.

The result is familiar to most teams:

• Over-commitment: Paying for unused reservations of savings plans.
• Under-commitment: Missing out on deep discounts.
• Complex management overhead: Manual tracking, error-prone forecasting, and fragmented visibility across AWS tools.

Harness Commitment Orchestrator helps organizations strike the right balance by unifying visibility, automating insights, and simplifying commitment planning.

What’s New: A Revamped Experience Built for FinOps Teams

A Refreshed Dashboard

The Commitments Dashboard has been completely redesigned with a cleaner, more intuitive layout. It surfaces the key data FinOps practitioners care about most—compute coverage, utilization, savings, and spend trends—in a single view. Teams can filter by account, region, or instance family and visualize commitments over time, drilling down daily or monthly to see exactly where their savings come from.

New Inventory View

The new inventory view centralizes RI and Savings Plan data into one dashboard to provide visibility across utilization, expirations, and renewal schedules. This unified inventory eliminates the need for separate AWS views or manual exports, giving you complete visibility directly inside Harness.

Net Amortized vs. Unblended Cost Views

Understanding true savings requires more than raw numbers. Harness now supports both Net Amortized and Unblended Cost views. This brings full parity with AWS Cost Explorer and enables accurate, actionable reporting across Finance and Engineering teams.

Compute Coverage by Cost and Hours

You can now view compute coverage by both dollar value and time (hours) across both SP and RI’s simultaneously for a 1:1 comparison with AWS Cost Explorer. This flexibility allows teams to analyze coverage in multiple ways.

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Spot Spend Inclusion

For the first time, Spot Instances are fully integrated into your commitments analysis. Teams can now understand total compute coverage across on-demand, RI, SP, and Spot usage in one place.

AI-Powered Insights (Coming Soon)

AI capabilities are already being integrated into the Commitment Orchestrator. Upcoming updates will surface AI-driven explanations and recommendations, such as:

• Why commitment utilization rates are trending down
• Where you have coverage gaps or underutilized commitments
• What actions—renewals, exchanges, or purchases—will optimize savings automatically

Harness vs AWS: A Deep Dive into Recommendations

AWS Cost Explorer’s recommendation engine for RIs/Savings Plans relies on short historical look-back windows (typically 7, 30 or 60 days) rather than long-term usage forecasting, which can make it less accurate in reflecting upcoming changes in demand or growth.

Harness takes a more holistic approach:

• Extended Lookback Analysis: Broader historical data for context-aware recommendations.
• Unified Platform: Manage RIs, SPs, Spot, and on-demand usage in one place.
• Enhanced Filters and Metrics: Cost- and hour-based coverage, amortized spend, and detailed utilization breakdowns.
• Modern Interface: Intuitive charts, trends, and real-time tracking built for FinOps teams.
• AI Roadmap: Automated insights and actions that turn raw data into optimization opportunities.

Harness moves teams from visibility to action, helping them continuously optimize spend without manual overhead.

Built for Action

Harness Commitment Orchestrator doesn’t just visualize your commitments, it helps you act on them. Users can view Harness recommendations for RI exchanges, new Savings Plan purchases, or renewals, and approve or reject them directly in the interface. These insights refresh automatically as spend patterns change, ensuring recommendations are always current and relevant.

Additionally Harness can automate in a fully automated mode that does not require manual review or approval of recommendations. In this mode, Harness will optimize maximum utilization coverage and savings based on one time user preferences during set up. 

Understanding RIs vs. Savings Plans: Why Strategy Still Matters

AWS offers several ways to reduce on-demand compute costs. The right approach depends on flexibility, term length, and how often your workloads change.

Convertible Reserved Instances (RIs) and Compute Savings Plans provide a strong balance between savings and agility. They typically offer up to 66% savings compared to on-demand pricing. 

Harness takes a FinOps-first approach to commitment management through an Atomization strategy. This method breaks large, long-term commitments into smaller recurring units that renew on a monthly cadence. It reduces lock-in risk, smooths spending, and makes it easier to adjust coverage as usage patterns change.

The platform models multiple commitment scenarios, predicts break-even points, and automatically executes purchases or modifications at scale. The result is higher coverage, lower risk, and complete transparency into cost efficiency without the complexity of manual forecasting or renewals.

Why It Matters

This modernized experience brings FinOps teams closer to true commitment management maturity by uniting visibility, governance, and AI-driven automation within a single platform.

Key benefits include:

• Unified visibility across all commitment types
• Accurate, amortized cost data aligned with AWS billing
• Transparent inventory and expiration tracking
• Smarter coverage metrics by cost and time
• A modern UI built for collaboration
• Additional AI capabilities on the horizon

The Future of FinOps Is Intelligent

This is more than a visual refresh, it’s the foundation for the next evolution of autonomous cloud cost management. Harness is embedding AI into every part of the FinOps workflow, enabling systems that explain, predict, and act on behalf of teams.

The modernized Commitment Orchestrator experience sets the stage for that future, helping customers save more, react faster, and operate smarter.

Get Started

Harness Commitment Orchestrator is available today within the Harness Cloud Cost Management (CCM) platform.

Log in to your Harness account to explore the new dashboard, or book a demo to see how Harness can help you achieve unified commitment visibility, smarter savings, and a clear path towards AI-powered FinOps.

Harness: Turning cloud commitment complexity into clarity.