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Cloudability Savings Automation

Add functionality to cover financial instruments in other CSPs, matching the CSP coverage of Cloudability

For all multi-cloud customers that use Cloudability as the main FinOps Platform, automation tools for anything but AWS has to be purchased by another vendor. This makes the FinOps suit incomplete and adds all the overhead of another FinOps agreeme...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation Planned for future release

View of all Regions at once

Currently have to filter individually to see coverage for a region. Would like to see one view that reflects all regions at one time.
21 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation Future consideration

Dynamically reducing and increasing coverage on weekends

CircleCI has quite a bit of seasonality daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. Because we are tied to developer hours and days, we often peak on a Wednesday and have close to zero usage on the weekends. This request is to allow for dynamic coverage, ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation Planned for future release

Add dimensional reporting for linked accounts, similar to "scopes" that allow for organizational master reporting.

FinOps teams can report on select linked accounts individually or grouped by internal business application.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation Future consideration

Scope level access needed for CSA UI

In IBM , we have multiple AWS master payers from different business units onboarded onto our CSA instance as different scopes. The stakeholders for these master payers would like to get access to the CSA UI, to see their savings, utilization etc. ...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation Future consideration

CSA supporting AWS Compute service (Apart from EC2)

It is useful and beneficial for customers who have usage across different AWS compute service (example lambda)
3 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation Needs more information

CSA supporting AWS Data base services

It is useful and beneficial for customers who have a lot of usage for the database services
3 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation Future consideration

Need alerting support in CSA when inefficiencies (ie commitment losses) deviate from normal ranges as well as exceed thresholds

CSA being a managed service, the exchanges needed to keep the commitment utilization high is done by Operations team/automated. However there are cases where exchanges fail and this may go unnoticed if Operations team isn't actively monitoring it....
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation Future consideration

New KPI/Filter - Lamda/Fargate Workload Coverage $

Initial response from our account team: "I don’t believe we break it out by service, so CLDY would be the best bet". We would like for a KPI/Filter to be created, so we don't have to manually figure out. Under RI Utilization, you are able to filte...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation Future consideration

New KPI - SP Commitment in $/hour

Initial response from our account team: "We don’t explicitly report this value, but in the SI inventory you could grab the inventory and meta data to back out the $/hour if you were curious." We would like for a KPI to be created, so we don't have...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation Future consideration

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