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Cloudability

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Enhanced Report Export for AWS Commitment Recommendations

We are currently working on AWS commitment recommendations and have encountered a limitation in the report export functionality. Specifically, when exporting reports from Cloudability, the output includes all instances available for reservations w...
about 5 hours ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Planned for future release

Apptio AI Assistant to assist on Conversational Reporting

Apptio AI Assistant is an AI-powered IT finance expert that simplifies reporting, insights, and budgeting. Users can ask questions in plain language and get real-time, data-driven answers. With Generative AI and advanced analytics. Use Cases1. Con...
about 13 hours ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Exclude Rightsizing Recommendations if current workload is on latest generation

Currently rightsizing recommendations are providing recs that contain older generation (but are "current generation") than the current instance. For example, current instance is running on r7g but rightsizing is recommending r6g.
about 13 hours ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Rightsizing for ECS workloads

Rightsizing support for ECS.
about 13 hours ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Include Cost (Amortized) in Anomaly Detection

Currently, as Anomaly is based on Cost (Actual). This has limitations incase of a customer using reservations. In such cases Cost (Actual) is able to work only on "On-Demand Cost" which is only pricing model being captured by Cost (Actual) - and w...
about 14 hours ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

Ability to create e-mail alerts using filters instead of views

Have the ability to set e-mail alerts based off of filters instead of views (see screenshot) Example 1: I only want to receive e-mail alerts for accounts 1 and 2. Instead of selecting a view, I would be able to set a filter to where the e-mail ale...
about 21 hours ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Adding Single-AZ or Multi-AZ field to the RDS Resource Inventory

Adding the availability zone details in a column of Resource Inventory would give the customer a detailed view on the RDS.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Add CPU count and memory metrics to go along with instance types.

Withe the instance type information, adding a CPU count and total memory should be a easy metric addition that maps to the instance types. CPU count would be very helpful for licensing requirements.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Expanded Resource Inventory and Reservation Inventory

Expanded Resource Inventory and Reservation Inventory: We currently only have resource inventory for EC2, EBS, S3, RDS and Redshift. Some of our M&As are big OpenSearch, ElastiCache and Memory DB users so the resource information would be help...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Creation date for Snapshots and EC2 instances

Creation date for Snapshots and EC2 instances: We have several accounts with very high Snapshot Costs, and it will help us target where we can save the most if we can tackle the oldest resources first.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted