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Cloudability

Expose AWS CUR lineItem.legalEntity Field

Request is to surface the AWS CUR field lineItem.legalEntity field within Cloudability as a standard, queryable dimension available for reporting, filtering, and allocation logic. This field identifies the legal entity responsible for the transact...
25 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Planned for future release

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...
26 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Planned for future release

Add functionality to cover financial instruments in other CSPs, matching the CSP coverage of Cloudability

For all multi-cloud customers that use Cloudability as the main FinOps Platform, automation tools for anything but AWS has to be purchased by another vendor. This makes the FinOps suit incomplete and adds all the overhead of another FinOps agreeme...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation Planned for future release

Ability to Restrict Budget Visibility and Permissions

I would like to request an enhancement regarding the Budget functionality in Cloudability. Currently, when a budget is created, it is automatically visible to all users within the organization, and any user can modify or delete it. This behavior i...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Planning Planned for future release

Configurable Data Import Scheduling per Vendor Credential

Currently, Cloudability does not provide visibility or control over the specific time of day when data is imported from connected Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). Import schedules are managed internally by the platform with no user-facing configura...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Planned for future release

Enrich Cloudability dashboards with features (Multiple Sheets, Report Filters, Calculated Metrics) that are available in Apptio BI

Our customers do not leverage dashboards much today because they do not meet some of their basic needs to view data in a way that is more meaningful to them. For us these additional features will be a value add for our customers.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Planned for future release

Cloudability Financial Planning (CFP) functionality enhancement

Request to enhance the Forecast Variance and Forecast Variance Details dashboards by enabling analysis aligned to the full plan duration. For example, if the plan covers three years (2026–2028), the dashboards should display Forecast Variance insi...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability Planned for future release

Commitment Support for Azure Database Savings Plans

Publicly announced today, this new commitment type offers up to 35% savings across a range of database services. See: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/finopsblog/announcing-savings-plan-for-databases-flexible-savings-for-modern-evolving-wo...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

Add IP Restrictions to API Usage

Currently once an API key has been created, the user can run APIs from anywhere, personal laptops, outside of the US, etc. This is very concerning to our Security folks. It would be beneficial if we could add an IP Restriction to the APIs to limit...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Other Planned for future release

Azure virtual machine commitments should roll up on the basis of instance size flexibility (ISF)

In general, the Azure reservations engine will process a reservation across all candidate VMs of many CPU-count sizes in the same family. The Cloudability VM Commitment Recs will show individual items for each VM size, which makes it difficult to ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

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