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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...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

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...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

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 1 month 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...
23 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

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...
26 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Increase Account Group Limit

We are currently facing a limitation where the account group field setting allows a maximum of only ten groups, which is no longer sufficient for our customers. Therefore, we hope to increase the number of available account group fields.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Add NetUnblendedCost and NetAmortizedCost from the CUR to Gov Cldy

It would be useful to have these two metrics: NetUnblendedCost and NetAmortizedCost from the CUR added into Gov Cldy. My understanding is that they will be added to Commercial but there are no plans for adding them to Gov Cldy. Can these please be...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Allow bottom layer of hierarchical view to map with multiple hierarchy business dimension

Today once i use a business dimension in a hierarchical view, it is not available to use in another hierarchical view. This poses restriction. Kindly allow to use one business dimension across multiple hierarchical view. e.g. Platform team is bott...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Databricks meta tags must be enabled in Cloudability

Databricks meta tags must be enabled in Cloudability because Databricks explicitly relies on tags to enrich usage data, and our internal governance and FinOps frameworks require these tags to correctly correlate Databricks workloads with AWS resou...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Allow for BYOD/FOCUS format data in Plans

Customers expect features to work when they bring in the data to Cloudability for spend. If there is spend data, they want to be able to budget against it. Customers want to be able to see the actual spend against the budget for the FOCUS/BYOD dat...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

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