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My subscriptions: Cloudability

Ability to Restrict Budget Visibility and Permissions

I would like to request an enhancement regarding the Budget functionality in Cloudability. Currently, when a budget is created, it is automatically visible to all users within the organization, and any user can modify or delete it. This behavior i...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Planning Planned for future release

Commitment Support for AWS Database Savings Plans

AWS has introduced Database Savings Plans, a commitment-based discount model that reduces eligible managed database costs by up to 35% with an hourly $/hour commitment over a 1-year term, automatically applying each hour to eligible database usage...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

Commitment Support for Azure Database Savings Plans

Publicly announced today, this new commitment type offers up to 35% savings across a range of database services. See: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/finopsblog/announcing-savings-plan-for-databases-flexible-savings-for-modern-evolving-wo...
25 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

Support Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to enable secure, standardized AI assistant integration with Apptio.

We would like Apptio to support the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to enable secure and governed integration with AI assistants and LLM-based tools. MCP provides a standardized way for AI systems to discover and interact with enterprise tools and AP...
3 months ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability Planned for future release

Make Variance Alert Threshold Values More intuitive

At present, the threshold values for alerts are set as an exceedance value versus a baseline. It would be more intuitive if the threshold was set as a percentage of the baseline instead. To illustrate this, if I want to configure an alert that tri...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Planned for future release

Enrich Cloudability dashboards with features (Multiple Sheets, Report Filters, Calculated Metrics) that are available in Apptio BI

Our customers do not leverage dashboards much today because they do not meet some of their basic needs to view data in a way that is more meaningful to them. For us these additional features will be a value add for our customers.
12 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Planned for future release

Cloudability MCP (Model Context Protocol)

We are currently building a FinOps Assistant GENAI, we have already other sources to enhance our FinOps assistant e.g AWS Billing and Cost Management official MCP, JIRA official MCP, DataDog official MCP and so on. What we are missing now is the C...
7 months ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability / Other Planned for future release

Cloudability Financial Planning (CFP) functionality enhancement

Request to enhance the Forecast Variance and Forecast Variance Details dashboards by enabling analysis aligned to the full plan duration. For example, if the plan covers three years (2026–2028), the dashboards should display Forecast Variance insi...
17 days ago in Cloudability Planned for future release

Ability to share dashboards easily with a large group (150+) instead of selecting each individually.

Ability to share dashboards easily with a large group (150+) instead of selecting each individually.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Planned for future release

Commitment Management 2.0 for Azure Commitment Recommendations

The commitment recommendations functionality in AWS and GCP is great. I would like to see this supported in Azure.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release