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Cloudability

AWS Credentialing: Role to Role Assumption

Our current AWS CloudFormation template requires customers to grant access to an IAM User principal. IAM Users introduce persistent identity risks, conflict with modern enterprise zero-trust policies, and trigger security compliance flags for pros...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Under review

Enhancing Cloudability's Hierarchical Business Mapping with Universal Base Dimensions

Currently, Cloudability's Hierarchical Business Mapping (HBM) feature operates under a significant constraint a base dimension cannot be reused more than once it has been assigned to an HBM structure. For example, if 'Departmental Hierarchy' uses ...
about 9 hours ago in Cloudability / Other Submitted

Ability to Copy Dashboard to a Tab on a Different Dashboard

Currently, you can copy a widget from a dashboard and specify which dashboard and tab to paste it to. You can also duplicate a dashboard into a new dashboard. We would like the ability to copy all of the widgets from a dashboard to the tab of a di...
about 14 hours ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government Submitted

CFP: Add Approval Workflow to Plans in CFP

Apptio Planning (formerly IT Planning) provides an approval workflow process with trackabliity of those approvals/denials. Applying a similar process to the plans in CFP would be beneficial because it would allow to keep that auditability within t...
about 22 hours ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Planning Submitted

CFP: Comment Box PopOut

When updating a plan in CFP, there is a comment field. If users are very wordy and put lots of information in that comment field, then the only way to view all of that information is to make the Comment field wider. Would it be possible to either ...
about 22 hours ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government Submitted

CFP: Add Comment field to the status page

When updating a plan, you can populate the Comment field explaining why you made a change. The Status Tab of Plans in CFP currently shows the Plan Dimensions, Last Modified Date, Last Modified By and FY$. It would be helpful for the Comment field ...
about 22 hours ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government Submitted

Kubecost Integration with JIRA for Automated Ticket Creation

It would be valuable to have a native integration between Kubecost and JIRA that allows JIRA tickets to be automatically created from Kubecost recommendations. This capability would help teams operationalize cost optimization recommendations by au...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Kubecost/Advanced Containers Under review

Ability to create custom dimensions against the hour field in either the cost and usage data or utilisation data

This is useful to have instance scheduling dashboards and drive optimisations for when cloud services are running. this can also be useful to determine at a low level when an anomaly occurs
2 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Under review

account level budgeting in tool and associated alerts

the ability to set a budget against an account id business dimension to then be tracked against account spend and create alerts
2 days ago in Cloudability / Planning Submitted

Recommendation age to track how long it has been around

this would be good to track age of a recommendation and enable the prioritisation of aged recommendations
2 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Future consideration