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Vendor Credentials and Integrations

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...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

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...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

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...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Planned for future release

Vendor Credentials email alerts should be able to show or hide all archived accounts

The Vendor Credentials Report email should also honour the show hide archive account setting - seeing a report that 250 of 350 are "fully credentialled" is very disheartening, and I need to go in and filter out the archives and see that almost 100...
15 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Planned for future release

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...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Planned for future release

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...
about 2 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...
26 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Under review

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.
14 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Under review

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...
29 days 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...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

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