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Data Mapping and Organization

Direct query access to native cloud billing fields

Cloudability currently abstracts and normalizes all billing data from providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP. While this enables unified cost visibility, it limits users' ability to validate and interpret data in "like-for-like" terms with the orig...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Expose AWS CUR lineItem.legalEntity Field

Request is to surface the AWS CUR field lineItem.legalEntity field within Cloudability as a standard, queryable dimension available for reporting, filtering, and allocation logic. This field identifies the legal entity responsible for the transact...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Planned for future release

Azure mapping of Usage Type and Usage Family change to align with other CSPs

Currently, Usage Type is a concatenation of the Meter Category and Meter SubCategory columns from the Azure Billing Export Report (or the cost data API endpoint). This prevents a one-to-one comparison of CLDY to the source data since a combining o...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Quick preview for business mappings

When changing a business mapping, I would love to see a preview of what the results would look like when the change processes. Instead of waiting to need for a reprocess to be complete, this would at least let me validate the change is performing ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration

updating Hierarchical Business Mapping via API using a CSV upload

Automating the management of Hierarchical Business Mappings (HBM) in Cloudability would save significant time and reduce the risk of errors associated with manual updates. Currently, updating HBMs requires manual intervention in the UI, which is i...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration

Enhance Service Name (or other dimensions) with AI Model Names from Product Name

Currently, services such as AWS Bedrock (particularly when purchased in AWS Marketplace in this user's scenario) pass through the name of the AI model being used in the Product Name dimension. However, Product Name is not available in TrueCost Exp...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

API endpoint to manage Tags

As Cloudability admin I would like to be able to retrieve, create, update and delete cloudability tags programmatically as well of to be able to retrieve available vendor tag keys for the mappings so I can keep track of changes to these in a infra...
25 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Add a new Cloudability Vendor Dimension to map the CUR value "Seller of Record"

In Cloudability, under the vendor section there are two different fields that helps in identifing costs based on: - Vendor: which maps the CUR vendor field (like AWS, Azure, GCP) - Seller: which maps the CUR BillingIdentity field (like AWS, AWS Ma...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Under review

Cloudability integration of LiteLLM

The integration of LiteLLM in Cloudability would be very usefull to perform showback and chargeback of AI costs on each team/user that generate a specifc cost. As enterprise AI adoption accelerates, organizations face an increasingly critical chal...

Enable Cloudabiltiy to ingest Databricks account pricing

Enable Cloudability to ingest Databricks pricing based on our contracted rates, including: Contracted DBU rates (not list pricing) Clear indicators for prepaid vs. pay‑as‑you‑go usage Amortization of committed Databricks spend Separation of comput...
28 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted