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Cloudability

updating Hierarchical Business Mapping via API using a CSV upload

Automating the management of Hierarchical Business Mappings (HBM) in Cloudability would save significant time and reduce the risk of errors associated with manual updates. Currently, updating HBMs requires manual intervention in the UI, which is i...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Delivered

Auto-detect historical CUR changes and refetch

Currently, Cloudability’s one-month lookback window for AWS CUR changes creates a "data drift" between the cloud provider's billing truth and the FinOps platform. AWS frequently applies retroactive adjustments—such as EDP credits, refund correctio...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Delivered

Commitment Support for Azure AI Foundry Provisioned Throughput

All available commitment types should be included in the list of purchased commitments My company is using "openai_provisioned_throughput" as a way of savings on AI usage. Currently those reservations are not listed in Cldy making it difficult for...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Delivered

Add COIN reporting as a native capability

Cloudability has all of the data to enable COIN reporting natively in the dashboarding and reporting, yet the only way to achieve this today is to take the cost and rightsizing data out of Cloudability to an external tool to join and present it. C...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Delivered

Report exports should show business mapping names as column headers rather than reference IDs

When a business mapping field is used as a dimension in a report, the mapping name shown in the UI does not get passed through the exported report. Instead the column name would be something like 'category1'. This is really annoying and potentiall...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Delivered

To show Savings under Azure Savings Compute plan in commitment portfolio

Customer would like to see the Savings they are making on their account under Commitment Portfolio. As of now, they do see details related to Utilization, Hourly commit and Remaining cost, however having the option to see the savings happening wou...
almost 2 years ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Delivered

Cloudability/Optimize/Commitment Portfolio - add Payer Id, and Account Id/Name

As a member of a central FinOps team, covering multiple AWS and Azure payer accounts, we would like to be able to filter the Commitment Portfolio by Payer Id and/or the 'hosting' Vendor Account Name / Id that has the purchased items. Currently the...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Delivered

Commitment Support Azure Blob Storage

A reservation covers storage capacity for Blob storage and Azure Data Lake Gen2 storage. The reservation doesn't cover bandwidth or transaction rates. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and...
almost 2 years ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Delivered

Dark mode toggle ability

Aside from being trendy within UI design, enabling dark mode can have benefits for all users, including but not limited to: Reduced Eye Strain in Low Light: Less bright light from the screen can make it more comfortable in dim environments, reduci...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Other Delivered

Estimate required Compute Savings Plans Commitment to reach target coverage

It would be very valuable to have a feature in Cloudability that allows us to input a desired AWS Compute Savings Plans coverage percentage, and receive an estimate of the required hourly commitment to achieve that coverage.Use case : We must manu...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Delivered