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Cloudability

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Add support for displaying Fiscal Years as per UK accounting convention

Cloud Financial Planning currently doesn't support the conventional way of displaying a UK Fiscal Year that spans 2 calendar year. For example, a Fiscal Year that runs for 12 months from April (Yr1) to March (Yr2) can only be displayed as either F...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Under review

Right Sizing Recommendation Include Sustainability Savings Data

When viewing right sizing recommendations I need to see the sustainability benefit of making the change as well as the cost benefit. I am working with Green Pixie who I would like to integrate their data sources with Cloudability so I can view the...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Gov Account Name

It would be helpful to have the Account Name for gov accounts populated with the AWS account name the same way the Commercial account is. Currently the Account Name field contains the account number for gov accounts. Most people do not remember th...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 1 Under review

Enable Business Mapping-based Views to work on Anomaly Detection

Idea = Enable Business Mapping-based Views to work on Anomaly Detection Current Limitation: • In Current State, the Views that are based on Business Mappings (e.g. Department, Cost Center, Prod vs. NonProd) DO NOT work for filtering the Anomaly De...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Under review

Effective cost basis in Rightsizing explorer

We would like to be able to switch between on-demand and effective cost basis in the Rightsizing Explorer pane. This is possible as part of the various rightsizing panel (e.g. AWS EC2, EC2 ASG, RDS) but not in the consolidated explorer view. This ...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Show comparative daily figure

generally find it useful - but in February and March it is always going to show the wrong data as it is comparing days with different number of days. It would be more useful if the headline showed a comparative daily figure for the daily run rate ...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection / Other 0 Under review

Recommendations for instance scheduling

One way to reduce costs is to allow for instance scheduling to downsize ASGs or power off instances during periods that the system is not being used. Customers would like to be able to view recommendations for workloads that can save money by inve...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Create a DL option for Anomaly Detection Alerts

As FinOps Analysts, we are receiving anomaly alerts that need to be forwarded to FinOps champions in each business unit. We aim to automate the distribution of these alerts to various stakeholders. Therefore, anomaly alerts should be filtered by b...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection / Other 1 Under review

Hide recommendations filter for UI

Currently we can filter the application to show rightsizing recommendations for compute over a certain amount. We'd like to see more elaborate filter options that apply to all right sizing categories like: 1) An amount threshold that applies to al...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Exclude No action recommendations

When we look at data in the rightsizing panel we often see recommendation with the recommendation 'no action' (in all scenario's whether we are using 10/30 days and on-demand/effective rate. We like to filter out this data from the rightsizing pre...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review