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Data Mapping and Organization

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...

Include "Deployed on AWS" designation in reporting capabilities for Marketplace data

Contracted spend commitments with AWS may include Marketplace spend contingent that they indicate being "Deployed on AWS". Need a way to identify these spend items as being in-scope for this status as part of annual commitment calculations via rep...
17 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Under review

Support for GCP Cost (List)

Users need metrics to behave consistently across services and vendors. Cost (list) ideally reflects public, On demand pricing for usage but that is not the behavior on GCP. Please support Cost (list) in GCP consistently across all servicesr like i...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Under review

Business mapping integration with Studio or via spreadsheet import

For multiple client we face the issue that:- updating business mappings through the UI is to cumbersome - Multiple business mappings usually are linked to one or two primary keys (like account ID & resource group)- Business mapping data based ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Under review

Show cloud native naming schema

I need to see the cloud specific naming for services such as SQL managed instance vs SQL Server and SQL database instead of the generalized fields. This makes it much easier to review spend with the application owners and understand which resource...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Under review

Enhanced Financial Transparency & Real-Time Reconciliation - Financial Integrity and Operational Efficiency - reconciliation automation

Roadmap Proposal: Enhanced Financial Transparency & Real-Time Reconciliation Problem Statement The current cloud cost reporting lacks a direct lineage between billing line items and actual inventory transactions. This creates a "black box" dur...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Under review

Add Chipset/Type to the data available for reports and dashboards

bring in an chipset/type related field from the CUR – “product_physical_processor”. This allows customers to evaluate usage of things across chipset across instance types. Currently this has to be managed with a custom business metric that has to ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Under review

Data Reprocessing for Business Mappings

Need to create a support ticket to request a reprocessing of the data for Business Mappings (and wait 24 hours after the processing)
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Under review

Metric to show the exchange rate being used when showing costs in a currency other than $

At present there is already a dimension called 'Exchange Rate' but it displays a static value of 1. Can this value be correctly filled with the current exchange rate being used to display values in Cloudability. For example in Cloudability we disp...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Under review