Retrieves Savings Plans utilization percentages.
AI agents call get_savings_plans_utilization to retrieve information from AWS MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and returns utilization metrics for Savings Plans, a financial reporting metric in AWS. No data is created, modified, deleted, or financial transactions are executed. It is purely informational querying of existing AWS cost/utilization data, consistent with other sibling tools like 'get_cost_breakdown' and 'get_budget_details'.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_savings_plans_utilization' uses the verb 'get' and description states 'Retrieves Savings Plans utilization percentages' — both indicate a read-only operation that queries and returns data without modification or side effects.
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Retrieves Savings Plans utilization percentages. It is categorised as a Read tool in the AWS MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the AWS MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_savings_plans_utilization: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches AWS MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_savings_plans_utilization is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the get_savings_plans_utilization rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for get_savings_plans_utilization. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
get_savings_plans_utilization is provided by the AWS MCP Server MCP server (sergiosediq/aws-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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