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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...
about 4 hours ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Way of reporting workload optimization tasks & savings that aren't in scope for Cloudability Rightsizing

We’ve found a gap in how we report workload optimization savings that Cloudability doesn’t cover today. If an optimization is not a Rightsize Opportunity in Cloudability, then we cannot create a ticket, and so Rightsize ROI does not count the savi...
about 5 hours ago in Cloudability / Other Submitted

Consolidated AWS Permissions Documentation

Summary Customers are finding it difficult to locate all required AWS permissions for setting up Cloudability master payer credentials and linked account credentials. The information is currently distributed across multiple documentation pages, ma...
about 4 hours ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Submitted

When scrolling through reports in BI and Cloudability Standard, keep the view tab frozen on the page.

It disappears when a user scrolls which can confusion for what view is shown, especially if a default view is attached, and the user is unaware of what the default view is.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Other Submitted

Enhance Azure VM Auto-scale recommenadtion

Cloudability identifies Azure VMs as autoscale candidates but doesn't specify what the scale set should look like. This idea is to enhance autoscale recommendations to include more detail in the recommendation.
2 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted

Support for Snowflake Cost Optimization Capabilities

Enhance visibility and control over Snowflake spend by identifying cost drivers, optimizing warehouse sizing and usage, reducing idle compute, and leveraging features like auto-suspend, query optimization, and storage tiering.
2 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Submitted

Add a field to the API and UI to inform consumers if cost saving is using custom prices or falling back on retail prices

Currently there is no transparency around which price is being used which results in misreporting when we roll up the potentials saves to a higher Business Mapping level. The reality is that all of our services should match to a custom price, so t...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted

Normalized AI Cost Model visibility in Cloudability (Reduce Noise from AI Model Versions)

Nestle and other customers are requesting improved visibility into AI-related cloud spend in Cloudability, as current AI service and item descriptions introduce a high level of noise when used in graphs and reports. AI costs today appear as many n...
2 days ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability Submitted

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...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

RCG wants Apptio to natively support OU-level AWS tags (like “map_migrated”) instead of relying on workarounds such as Lambda-based replication, to avoid operational complexity and potential data integrity issues.

SITUATION: RCG wants to know why certain OU‑level AWS tags (e.g., “map_migrated”) are not appearing in Apptio despite being enabled in AWS cost allocation. STATUS: Currently, Apptio doesn't support importing OU level tags. SOLUTION: Implement an a...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Other Submitted

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