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Add Usage Family/Usage type to Resource Inventory

We request adding a field of Usage Family or Usage type to each line in the resource inventory in order to be able to separate any storage cost for example from actual instance usage. This can help especially when constructing reports via API call...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Planned for future release

Effective cost basis in Rightsizing explorer

We would like to be able to switch between on-demand and effective cost basis in the Rightsizing Explorer pane. This is possible as part of the various rightsizing panel (e.g. AWS EC2, EC2 ASG, RDS) but not in the consolidated explorer view. This ...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

Enable trend analysis of savings by month with filters in Rightsizing ROI

Currently, Rightsizing ROI provides a view of optimization opportunities and realized savings, but it does not allow customers to easily perform month-over-month trend analysis. Customers need to track how rightsizing efforts are contributing to o...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

Add Resource Name to GCP Resource Inventory (Compute Engine)

Resource Name is needed to ensure clear identification of GCE resources in Cloudability Resource ID which comes from GCP billing data is not clear enough (it looks more like a path and it doesn't contain the resource name) Resource Name field is c...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Disk usage metric for EBS and GPD

Currently we cannot look at the disk usage data for EBS and GPD, most of the disks are over provisioned and we pay for what we allocate than what we use. Cloudability is showing these metrics for RDS in AWS, why cant we do it for EBS and GPD with ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Better unified savings reporting

Commitment reporting Optimization ROI Reliability UI Filtering Time Selection
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

Enable vCPU Usage Metrics for Azure in Cloudability

Currently, Cloudability supports vCPU tracking for AWS and GCP, but Azure data lacks this metric. Since vCPU is crucial for Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans, and overall FinOps decision-making. Without this feature, Azure customers lack vis...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Improve currently non-intuitive Right-Sizing policies and ROI functionality

1) When creating a right-sizing policy, clicking "Save and Run" will only generate tickets according to the schedule, rather than to run the policy immediately. This is confusing. If I set a Daily schedule and click Save and Run it will generate a...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Planned for future release

ROI Policy - S3

As a FinOps practitioner at a large organization, I need to be able to track savings recommendations and actioned savings for all services. At this time, S3 is not a supported by the ROI policy so we are unable to track savings MoM.
11 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

Include actual field names for metadata in the Resource Inventory Extract

Currently, the Resource Inventory csv extract shows only generic ("Tag 42") field headings. The actual field headings ("Cost Center") are available in the UI, and these same headings should appear in the csv extract, otherwise the exported data is...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

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