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feat(aws/ladder): estimate stable usage for the EC2 Instance SP base layer - #730

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Summary

  • GetUsageBaseline now fills UsageBaseline.StableUSDPerHour when the caller sets a buffer fraction through the new AWSLadder.WithBufferFraction option, so the allocation engine can give the EC2 Instance Savings Plan base layer a share. Without the option the value stays nil and behaviour is unchanged.
  • The estimate is min(low-water, 10th percentile, lowest of the last 3 days) * (1 - buffer fraction). It is nil for a series under 14 days, when the 10th percentile is under half the median, or for a non-positive result, so the engine keeps routing the gap to the flex layer in those cases. The percentile block moves into baselineStats to keep GetUsageBaseline within the complexity limit.
  • Known limits, recorded for follow-up: the series is the region's EC2 on-demand total, not per instance family, so a family mix change is not detected; a weekend dip below half of weekday usage returns nil; a partial trailing day from Cost Explorer lag lowers the estimate (safe, but can make the base layer intermittently absent).

Verification

  • Golden series for each threshold boundary, a seeded property test that the estimate never exceeds low-water, an end-to-end test through ladder.Allocate where the estimate caps the base share, and a loopback SDK case. All plan mutation probes (each constant, the scale, the trailing window, the gate and post-check, the option default) fail a named test; one redundant guard survives by design.
  • -race -short on providers/aws/ladder and pkg/ladder, golangci-lint (both modules) and the complexity check pass.

Closes #31

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  • New Features
    • AWS usage baselines can now include an optional stable hourly usage estimate when a buffer fraction is configured. The estimate is available for sufficiently long, consistent usage history; it remains unavailable when usage data is too short, volatile, or otherwise unsuitable.
    • When a stable estimate is available, allocations can use it to cap the base layer. If stable usage is unknown, allocations avoid the base layer.
  • Documentation
    • Clarified when stable hourly usage estimates are populated or left unset.

cristim and others added 4 commits November 9, 2026 23:28
WithBufferFraction stores the buffer fraction the stable-usage estimator will
apply. It must be finite and in [0, 1) and is chained like WithWriteSide; the
last call wins and a rejected call leaves the stored value unchanged. Nothing
reads it yet, so behaviour is unchanged.

Part of #31

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…layer

GetUsageBaseline now fills StableUSDPerHour when the caller set a buffer
fraction. The estimate is the minimum of the low-water mark, the 10th percentile
of the series and the lowest of the last three days, scaled by one minus the
buffer fraction. It is nil for a series under 14 days, for a series where the
10th percentile is under half the median, and for a non-positive result, so the
engine keeps routing the gap to the flex layer in those cases. Without the
option the value stays nil and behaviour is unchanged. The percentile block moves
into baselineStats to keep GetUsageBaseline within the complexity limit.

Part of #31

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…Allocate

The UsageBaseline.StableUSDPerHour doc now names the cases where it stays nil
(a short or volatile series, or no buffer fraction configured). A new test feeds
a real GetUsageBaseline result to ladder.Allocate: a stable series gets a base
layer allocation capped by the estimate, a volatile one gets none and the flex
layer's rationale says stable usage is unknown.

Closes #31

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The end-to-end test now uses a series where the stable estimate, not the core
gap, bounds the base layer, so a doubled or inflated estimate fails it. The
property test draws mostly steady series and asserts that most produce an
estimate, and the invalid-input table covers a negative and an above-one buffer
fraction.

Part of #31

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@cristim cristim added priority/p2 Backlog-worthy severity/medium Moderate harm triaged Item has been triaged urgency/this-quarter Within the quarter impact/many Affects most users effort/m Days type/feat New capability labels Nov 9, 2026
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AWSLadder gains an optional buffer-fraction setting and a stable-usage estimator. When configured and the usage series meets the estimator’s criteria, GetUsageBaseline returns a stable hourly estimate. Tests cover estimates, baseline integration, and allocation behavior.

Changes: AWS stable-usage estimation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configure the buffer fraction
providers/aws/ladder/ladder.go, providers/aws/ladder/ladder_test.go, pkg/ladder/types.go, CHANGELOG.md
AWSLadder.WithBufferFraction accepts finite values from 0 up to, but not including, 1. Invalid values do not replace the stored value. The documentation describes when StableUSDPerHour can be nil.
Estimate stable usage
providers/aws/ladder/stable_usage.go, providers/aws/ladder/stable_usage_test.go
The estimator requires at least 14 values, a positive median, and a 10th percentile at least half the median. It applies the buffer fraction to the minimum of the low-water value, 10th percentile, and last three values. Tests cover validation, boundaries, and estimate bounds.
Return stable usage in baselines
providers/aws/ladder/baseline.go, providers/aws/ladder/baseline_sdk_test.go, providers/aws/ladder/ladder_test.go, providers/aws/ladder/stable_usage_test.go
GetUsageBaseline now obtains the stable estimate through baselineStats. Tests cover unset and configured fractions, volatile and short series, and allocation behavior when stable usage is available or unknown.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant GetUsageBaseline
  participant baselineStats
  participant estimateStableUSDPerHour
  GetUsageBaseline->>baselineStats: request low-water and stable values
  baselineStats->>estimateStableUSDPerHour: series, low-water value, buffer fraction
  estimateStableUSDPerHour-->>baselineStats: stable estimate or nil
  baselineStats-->>GetUsageBaseline: low-water and stable values
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The change adds an opt-in stable-usage estimate. Existing behavior is unchanged unless the buffer fraction is set. The remaining note asks only for documentation of the region-total basis.

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Linked Issues check Passed Issue #31 asks for a stable-usage estimate in UsageBaseline.StableUSDPerHour with post-buffer-fraction semantics. baselineStats now sets that field when WithBufferFraction is configured. `estima…
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Issue #31 asks for a stable-usage estimate in UsageBaseline.StableUSDPerHour with post-buffer-fraction semantics. baselineStats now sets that field when WithBufferFraction is configured. estimateStableUSDPerHour uses the low-water value, the 10th percentile, and the trailing three-day minimum, then applies the buffer fraction. It returns nil for short or volatile series and for invalid results. The tests cover baseline integration and allocation capped by the stable estimate. Issue #31 gives per-family approaches as examples, not as a required implementation. The implementation uses regional EC2 usage, so the documented family-mix limitation remains.

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Nitpick comments: 1

CHANGELOG.md: 1

41-41: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Document the region-total basis in the changelog entry.

The estimator uses the region's total EC2 on-demand series. It does not use per-family usage. LayerEC2InstanceSP is tied to an instance family. A shift in family mix is not detected, so the base layer can be sized above the stable usage of the family that is actually committed.

The PR description records this limit. The changelog entry and the doc comment in baseline.go do not. Operators who enable WithBufferFraction cannot see the limit. Add one sentence to the entry. Add the same sentence to the StableUSDPerHour limitation comment in baseline.go.

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-It stays nil when the option is unset, the series has fewer than 14 days, or the 10th percentile is under half the median (#31).
+It stays nil when the option is unset, the series has fewer than 14 days, or the 10th percentile is under half the median. The estimate uses the region's total EC2 on-demand usage, not per-family usage, so a change in family mix is not detected (#31).
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Review comment at @CHANGELOG.md at line 41:
Update the changelog entry for AWSLadder.WithBufferFraction and the
StableUSDPerHour limitation comment in baseline.go to state that the estimate
uses region-total EC2 on-demand usage, not per-family usage, and does not detect
changes in instance-family mix.

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Review comments at @CHANGELOG.md:
- Line 41: Update the changelog entry for AWSLadder.WithBufferFraction and the
StableUSDPerHour limitation comment in baseline.go to state that the estimate
uses region-total EC2 on-demand usage, not per-family usage, and does not detect
changes in instance-family mix.

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