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Search results: Cloudability

Direct query access to native cloud billing fields

Cloudability currently abstracts and normalizes all billing data from providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP. While this enables unified cost visibility, it limits users' ability to validate and interpret data in "like-for-like" terms with the orig...
about 8 hours ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Consolidated AWS Permissions Documentation

Summary Customers are finding it difficult to locate all required AWS permissions for setting up Cloudability master payer credentials and linked account credentials. The information is currently distributed across multiple documentation pages, ma...
about 8 hours ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Submitted

Way of reporting workload optimization tasks & savings that aren't in scope for Cloudability Rightsizing

We’ve found a gap in how we report workload optimization savings that Cloudability doesn’t cover today. If an optimization is not a Rightsize Opportunity in Cloudability, then we cannot create a ticket, and so Rightsize ROI does not count the savi...
about 9 hours ago in Cloudability / Other Submitted

Support full Azure MCA credentialing at Billing Profile level in Cloudability

Cloudability currently requires 'Billing Account Reader' access for Azure Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) tenants in order to retrieve custom pricing, commitments, and enable all Cloudability features for Azure. However, large enterprise Azure ...
about 11 hours ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Under review

Automated Inventory Report Subscription

Description: I would like to request the ability to subscribe to the Inventory Report, so that it can be automatically sent to a defined set of users on a scheduled basis. Request: I would like to be able to: Create a subscription: Set up a subscr...
about 13 hours ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 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.
1 day 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.
2 days 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.
2 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Submitted

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...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Under review

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...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted