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Billing & Costs & Discounts

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Turbonomic | Added support for Parquet format in the CUR report.

Some customers have already exported their cost reports, but instead of using gzip - text/csv, they are using Parquet, which is generally more efficient. In such cases, they have to recreate the reports, so it would be helpful if Parquet format co...
14 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

Add support for Azure Reservation for Services other than Virtual Machines e.g. Azure SQL and AWS Reserved Instances for AWS RDS

Turbonomic is currently supporting Azure Virtual Machine Reservations and AWS EC2 Reserved Instances ensuring that the existing reservation portfolio is optimally utilized, but Azure is offering reservation for a lot of service also supported by T...
15 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

Option to evaluate Cost Impact without considering commitments (only based on-demand rate)

When scaling VM, Cost Impact is impacted by discount coverages. They may vary, especially Savings Plan allocation are unpredictible and Reservations behavior are also very complex to predict.Then it makes sense to determine the Cost Impact only us...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Turbonomic support for Management Group scope Reservations (Azure)

As a Cloud Administrator, I would like Turbonomic Actions to consider my Reserved Instances scoped to my Management Groups in Azure so I can ensure that the actions being recommended by Turbonomic will not scale out of an RI. Azure RI’s can be app...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Add Documentation Guide for Setting Up Azure CSP Billing Targets with Turbonomic

Many customers, particularly in markets like Norway, purchase Microsoft Azure through Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs) such as Atea, Crayon, SoftwareOne. In these scenarios, the CSP often manages billing data, which can limit the customer’s direct ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Add option to add EDP to effective rate

Add option to add EDP to effective rate. This would show a more accurate savings cost.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Price Currency Globaly

Nowadays it is only possible to change the price currency in a user context. The problem with this is that some people only have ready only access and cant change the currency settings on their own (no settings cause read only) that means all peop...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 2 Future consideration

In the 'Actions' tab, show the sum for the cost impact column for on-demand costs without factoring in savings plans

There was a change made around the first week of January 2025. A toggle of on-demand versus effective was added.We'd like to see what the on-demand savings are without any savings plan being a factor.Most of the cost impact are showing $0.00.FinOp...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Discover Spot Rates

As a Turbonomic User and Data Engineer I want to see the billing rate for Spot instances, and pull that data via the Turbo API for custom reports. Currently, if the billing type = bidding, the billing rate is not discovered and exposed anywhere in...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Azure savings plans leverage on top of RIs during scaling actions recommendations

challenges leveraging and imposing Savings plans and RIs within the platform. Recommendations on RI skus are great but we would like to enhance the savings plans features use case to our advantage.] Essentially, the ask is to account and compute t...