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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...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Under review

Disable Advanced Feature Check

Enable to a toggle to stop accounts from showing errors on their Advanced Features status on Vendor Credentials. In the event that an account can't/won't be enabled, this would allow both the 'Account Status' banner and the Credentials Page to sho...
about 10 hours ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Under review

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...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Kubecost/Advanced Containers Under review

Support for Custom S3-Compatible Object Storage Endpoints for Cost Data Ingestion

IBM Apptio Cloudability currently supports ingesting billing and usage data from the native object storage services of the major hyperscalers: Amazon S3 (AWS) Azure Blob Storage Google Cloud Storage Many enterprise customers, however, util...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 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
4 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Under review

Automated tracking of OpenShift Licensing Costs

Customers leverage Kubecost to help understand the total cost of ownership of their kubernetes clusters. For customers who use Red Hat OpenShift, a key component of these costs is the licensing fees. While customers today can leverage the CSV manu...
25 days ago in Cloudability / Kubecost/Advanced Containers Under review

Ability to filter out GCP credits in Container

We have a Public Sector Subscription Agreement (PSSA) with Google Cloud Platform for one of our GCP BIDs. This agreement means that we paid a fixed amount each month for the duration of the agreement. Any usage charges were credited out and we wer...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting Under review

Automate AWS linked account credentialing

Use case: After completing vendor credentialing in Cloudability for AWS, especially when customers have enabled the "Automated credentialing of linked accounts" option, when new linked accounts are added to the AWS Organization, those new linked a...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Under review

Put the Account Alias section in GCP for Vendor Credentialing

In AWS, there is a section which populates Account Details in Credentialing section and the same can also be seen later populating in other tools such as Reports, Dashboards and Rightsizing tool. The same option should be available for GCP as well.
9 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Under review

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...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Under review