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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...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Under review

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...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Under review

Label (Key) field comes as (not set) in report even when Label is available

Label (Key) field comes as (not set) in reports even when Label is available and only value is missing. Some default labels for GKE resources dont have a value, but can be used to distinguish such resources from GCE without the need of installing ...
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...
5 months 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...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Under review

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...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Under review

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...

Populate Resource Name dimension for Azure

The Resource Name dimension isn't populated for Azure. This is a key field, present in the CUR and should be made available in Cloudability. Without it, it is quite cumbersome to always rely on the Resource Id, which is a very long string. Coupled...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Under review

Identify, similar to AWS and Azure tags/labels, where GCP LABEL values are being defined by prefixing the GCP Label KEY with that information

(I use tags and labels interchangeably, but i do mean that we use GCP Labels) For AWS, account level tags/labels are prefixed like: cldy:aws:accountleveltag:cost_center. For Azure subscription level tagslabels are prefixed like: cldy:azure:subscri...
6 months 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...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Under review