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Cloudability

Limited Optimization Coverage

Optimization recommendations are currently available mainly for EC2, EC2-Other, S3, RDS, Lambda, Redshift and Elastic IP.No optimization insights are available for EKS, ElastiCache, OpenSearch, EFS, DynamoDB, MSK, Load Balancers, AI services and o...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Needs more information

Vendor Commitment burn-down tracking. Commitment> Budget> Spend calibration

Here at Sherwin Williams, we have a large number of commitments to spending on cloud products. We've built an ApptioBI dashboard that supports entering start>end dates, total commitment amount, and monthly spend. However, we have not found a wa...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Needs more information

BUG: We don't see any ways to filter anomaly with the Business Mappings that we create

BUG: We don't see any ways to filter anomaly with the Business Mappings that we create. Example if i wanted to set-up an alert based on Users there is no way i could achieve this in cloudability.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection Needs more information

Enable CoPilot cost ingestion in Cloudability

Direct Integration: Cloudability should natively integrate with CoPilot to allow users get CoPilot cost data into cloudability and build reports and dashboards. Eliminate Workarounds: Current method relies on using Focus to bring data in, which is...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Needs more information

Option to download the list of clusters tracked on cloudability

1.We keep on adding new clusters, removing existing clusters. Various teams reach out to us asking for the list of latest clusters 2. To download the list of the latest clusters (by vendor, type of clusters etc.,) and also to identify the ones tha...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting Needs more information

Add additional granularity for hourly rightsizing opportunities to allow nighttime savings in rightsizing

Add granularity to the billing/costing information for Azure and GCP to allow for bucketing based on time of day (work weeks) as well as weekend and potential savings. Process similar to AWS.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Needs more information

Option to get alerts about the "Inactive" cluster(s) in the container insights section

Hi Team , Having Option to get alerts about the "Inactive" cluster(s) in the container insights section would really help, since the container insights data is real-time & once we lose it, we can't get the historical data. Missing this data wo...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting Needs more information

Optimization recommendations for additional AWS Services (e.g.: CloudWatch, DynamoDB, Glue, Analytics Services, ECS)

Optimization recommendations for additional AWS Services (e.g.: CloudWatch, DynamoDB, Glue, Analytics Services, ECS)
9 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Needs more information

Direct Chronosphere Connector for Utilization Data (Avoid Broad GCP Permissions)

Problem Statement: To enable GCP commitment tracking in Cloudability, "Advanced Credentials" are currently required. However, the associated script requires two high-level permissions that violate Yahoo’s security policies: storage.buckets.list: E...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Needs more information

Flexible Visualization of Budget Variance Details

CFP (Cloud Financial Planning) lacks a good way to visualize the Budget Variance Details. Ideally, all dimensions of the plan should be selectable / Filtrable to construct a chart - they are currently in the Table, but to visualize it the only opt...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Needs more information