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Loading...A reserved capacity commitment, savings plan obligation, or pre-purchased credit pool that is not being applied against eligible usage in the current period. Unused commitment is a form of waste because the commitment dollars are still flowing to the vendor but no compute or service is being received against them. The federation requires commitment utilisation to be reported daily for every active commitment, with utilisation below ninety percent over a rolling fourteen-day window flagged for review under UFMS-001:2.4(d). Unused commitment is reconciled to procurement decisions in the next cycle.
A compound of unused and commitment; the term entered FinOps vocabulary as reserved instances and savings plans became common in the late 2010s.
Federation members publish commitment utilisation daily. Utilisation below ninety percent over fourteen days triggers a recommitment review. Repeated low-utilisation commitments are reported under TGS-002:2.3 as a procurement maturity issue.
@misc{ifo4_glossary_unused_commitment,
title = {{Unused Commitment}},
author = {{IFO4 Federation Editorial Board}},
howpublished = {{IFO4 Federation Glossary, slug \texttt{unused-commitment}}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://ifo4.org/glossary/unused-commitment},
note = {Category: Waste; key: UnusedCommitment}
}Federation members and accredited practitioners may challenge any entry under TGS-002:1.7. Filed challenges are routed to the editorial board, triaged into the revision register, and resolved in writing on the public docket. The slug remains stable through any revision.