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Vendor Credentials and Integrations

Support for Custom S3-Compatible Object Storage Endpoints for Cost Data Ingestion

IBM Apptio Cloudability currently supports ingesting billing and usage data from the native object storage services of the major hyperscalers: Amazon S3 (AWS) Azure Blob Storage Google Cloud Storage Many enterprise customers, however, util...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Planned for future release

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

Support Azure credentialling from the Management Group and Tenant Root level instead of per-subscription

In a large, dynamic Azure environment with tight security and strong separation of duties, getting a subscription owner every (frequent) time to click a link to add "advanced features" credential for a new subscription is very onerous. Add an opti...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Under review

Vendor Credentials "advanced features" status should distinguish between no, some, and all permissions present

Currently, Vendor Credentials reports green status if any, even just one, of the necessary permissions are present, and reports red only if no permissions are present.  This is especially noticeable in Azure credentials.   Because Clouda...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Under review

Automate AWS linked account credentialing

Use case: After completing vendor credentialing in Cloudability for AWS, especially when customers have enabled the "Automated credentialing of linked accounts" option, when new linked accounts are added to the AWS Organization, those new linked a...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Planned for future release

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

Automate Advanced Credentials for new accounts under set up credentialed Payer

We implemented our process to apply the approriate permissions to all new accounts in the payer. But we still need to verify new accounts in the API or UI. Bulk actions is a step in the right direction to allow multiple accounts at a time. But for...

Enable Automatic Advanced Credentialing for Newly Discovered Cloud Accounts

The current “Automated Credentialing of Linked Accounts” feature helps credential existing linked accounts in bulk, but it does not truly automate credentialing for newly created AWS Organization accounts. New accounts still require manual steps i...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Planned for future release

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

Different Status Icon/Information for Inactive Credential

It would be helpful to have vendor credentials that are no longer ingesting billing information or no longer exists on the CSP display something other than a red exclamation mark with the 'invalid credential' error that suggests that the Cloudabil...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration