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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...
about 18 hours ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Import tags from the OU in the org

The OU represents all the accounts nested underneath which removes the need to tag each account specifically. If an account is moved to another OU it will inherit the tags instead of manually updating them.
about 20 hours ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations / Views Under review

Report on GCP Coverage rate as it appears in the Commitment Portfolio

GCP Coverage reporting is not supported in Cloudability reports or dashboards. In order to view, the user must go to the Commitment Portfolio module. Users can create reports and dashboards to view AWS Coverage, but not GCP. For mature FinOps prac...
about 23 hours ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Submitted

Enhancement to container dashboard

Option to create multiple tables at the end of container dashboard and allow read only users to update date and other filters for their visibility without updating the filters in the actual dashboard
1 day ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting Submitted

Integration of Snowflake and Couchbase data(FOCUS) to flow from MSP Root Account to Customer Child Unit

Integration of Snowflake and Couchbase Data Flow from MSP Root Account to Customer Child Unit This idea proposes a unified data integration framework to enable seamless flow of structured and unstructured data from the MSP root account to customer...

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...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation Submitted

Scope Cost Sharing by Payer

Cost Sharing currently distributes shared costs across all/selected Business Mappings, regardless of which payer account incurred the cost. In multi‑payer, multi‑cloud environments, this leads to incorrect allocations. Add the ability to scope Cos...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing Submitted

Provide Ability to Restrict Cluster Node Type Recommendations

Provide the ability to remove specific node types from being recommended. This will allow the recommendations to be based on business requirements and limit non supported processor types.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted

display more services under Insights - Resource Inventory

Having a unified view for other services frequently queried is very helpful. Example, list all vpcs in aws to see all cidrs. list all users/roles/groups. Identify route tables and associated subnets. Keeping a centralized location for reporting or...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Views Under review

Ability to have a daily budget alert based on a simple threshold (amount or percentage).

Need a daily email alert sent within 24 hours whenever any individual application goes over its daily cost threshold. Example of the Daily Cycle: Day-to-day process: April 2nd: Application "A" has a daily threshold of $50, but the actual cost is $...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Planning Under review