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Data Mapping and Organization

SyncAwsEc2Volume: Attached and Unattached time

Business Case We are requesting a Cloudability enhancement to expose attached time and unattached time for EC2Volume resources. Today, storage cost visibility shows what we are spending, but not how long a volume was actually in use versus sitting...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

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...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration

make the privileges DataReprocessFeatureFullAccess available for assignment within customer-managed roles or at least cloudability administrator role

a Cloudability administrator shour be able to reprocess data
7 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Enable granular Datadog cost ingestion and reporting within Cloudability to provide detailed visibility into Datadog spend, usage drivers, and cost allocation.

Customers with significant Datadog investments currently have limited visibility into Datadog costs within Cloudability. While overall spend can be tracked, the lack of granular cost and usage data prevents customers from analyzing Datadog expendi...
13 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 ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration

Support Reporting for Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) Multiple Billing Profiles

Lots and lots of customers are migrating from EA to MCA agreements and one of the features of this migration is to define billing profiles as part of the allocation methodology. Currently Cloudability cannot report on cost and usage based on these...
28 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...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Under review

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 months 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...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

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 ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted