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Vendor Credentials and Integrations

Disable Advanced Feature Check

Enable to a toggle to stop accounts from showing errors on their Advanced Features status on Vendor Credentials. In the event that an account can't/won't be enabled, this would allow both the 'Account Status' banner and the Credentials Page to sho...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

AWS Credentialing: Role to Role Assumption

Our current AWS CloudFormation template requires customers to grant access to an IAM User principal. IAM Users introduce persistent identity risks, conflict with modern enterprise zero-trust policies, and trigger security compliance flags for pros...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

Put the Account Alias section in GCP for Vendor Credentialing

In AWS, there is a section which populates Account Details in Credentialing section and the same can also be seen later populating in other tools such as Reports, Dashboards and Rightsizing tool. The same option should be available for GCP as well.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

Bulk Action for GCP to archive invalid/expired accounts that are deleted in GCP (or handling that automatically would be better!)

Provide an option in the Credentials to do a bulk Archive of records related to projects that are deleted but show as invalid or expired. Only option is to archive one by one. ANother option, which would be better is to archive the records that no...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

Enable Cloudability Connectivity via AWS Linked Accounts

Cloudability's current AWS integration model requires connectivity through an AWS Organizations Management (Master/Billing) Account. While this architecture has served customers well, it is becoming increasingly difficult to support in large, high...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

Cloudability - AWS Vendor Credential - Regional Restrictions - Should apply to validation & scanning

Useful: Many enterprises have service control policies that limit the regions that a given enterprise can operate in. Today, you can set a region on the AWS vendor credentials, but that only limits the verification or validation call to that regio...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

On account (subscription) closure or suspension in Azure or AWS, provide functionality to automatically archive or delete the vendor credentials (user selection).

Useful: This is useful for anyone that works in an environment where change management is difficult (most large enterprises) and being able to specify a setting to automatically scavenge (cleanup) close accounts or subscriptions would save a lot o...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

Elastic native cloudability connector

Connector to extract usage and cost data from Elastic
4 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

Kafka native cloudability connector

To extract usage and cost data from Kafka
4 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

Add native Cloudflare integration to Cloudability to provide visibility, reporting, and cost management for Cloudflare spend alongside cloud infrastructure costs.

Cloudability currently lacks native integration with Cloudflare, preventing customers from incorporating Cloudflare costs into their overall FinOps and cloud cost management strategy. As Cloudflare becomes a critical component of modern cloud arch...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration