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My subscriptions: Cloudability

Named Custom Date Ranges for Reporting

Today, users can choose from standard absolute and relative date ranges (Last 7 Days, Month to Date, custom start/end dates, etc.) within each widget's or the UI's Time period selector. This is powerful but introduces friction for organizations wh...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Under review

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...
3 days 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...
15 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Under review

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.
about 6 hours 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.
about 19 hours 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.
1 day 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...
1 day 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...
1 day 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...
1 day 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...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Other Submitted

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