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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...
7 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...
4 days 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...
28 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

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...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

Elastic native cloudability connector

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

Expand ServiceNow marketplace Apptio application functionality to allow it to raise tickets from cost savings recommendations

The ability to raise tickets for cost-saving recommendations is a key enabler for managing our vast cloud estate at scale via automation; it was a core pillar of our original Apptio business case. Currently, integration between Apptio and ServiceN...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

Ability to see status of subscriptions in Cloudability

This will. help us see if the Subscriptions in Azure are active, disabled or deleted
7 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

Support CUR 2.0/BCM Data Export Configuration at Individual Linked Account Level in Vendor Credentials API

Currently the Cloudability vendor credentials API link account resource only accepts three fields vendor Account ID , type and region. The CUR configuration at the linked account level is not supported . Individual linked accounts inherit CUR conf...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

Allow for Azure Memor Metrics collection via Azure Monitor Logs

Microsoft will be depreciation Memory collection via the Azure Diagnostics extension. This will require the use of a monitor agent and Azure Monitor. Customer already has memory collection using Azure Monitor Logs. Since this isnt current supporte...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration