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Cloudability

Ability to Share Individual Dashboard Widgets in Cloudability

Currently, Cloudability dashboards do not support sharing individual widgets. Users are required to share the entire dashboard, even when they intend to collaborate on or distribute insights from a single visualization. While reports can be shared...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

Automated Report Delivery to Amazon S3

Enable the automated delivery of scheduled IBM Cloudability reports directly to a user-configured Amazon S3 bucket to streamline data integration and archival processes. Currently, retrieving reports often requires manual intervention or individua...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Under review

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...
about 5 hours ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted

Enhance Cloud Visibility: Fetch VPC ID and VPC Name against VPC Services

Description: As an Apptio user, I'm facing challenges in fetching VPC ID and VPC name against VPC services. Currently, Apptio doesn't provide a straightforward way to retrieve these details, making it difficult to gain comprehensive visibility int...
about 5 hours ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 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...
about 4 hours ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability 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...
about 15 hours ago in Cloudability / Other Submitted

Commitment Support for GCP Vertex AI Provisioned Throughput

Vertex AI spend is increasing and there is a need to optimize it. Provisioned Throughput commitments offer a major discount off on-demand: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/provisioned-throughput-on-vertex-ai
about 17 hours ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Submitted

Set default cost basis for Rightsizing Explorer

Now that there is support for both Effective and On-Demand cost bases in Rightsizing Explorer, I would like to be able to the default cost basis on the Default Cost Metrics Preferences page.
about 23 hours ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 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...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 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...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing

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