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Cloudability

Scope Cost Sharing by Payer

Cost Sharing currently distributes shared costs across all/selected Business Mappings, regardless of which payer account incurred the cost. In multi‑payer, multi‑cloud environments, this leads to incorrect allocations. Add the ability to scope Cos...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing Submitted

Azure mapping of Usage Type and Usage Family change to align with other CSPs

Currently, Usage Type is a concatenation of the Meter Category and Meter SubCategory columns from the Azure Billing Export Report (or the cost data API endpoint). This prevents a one-to-one comparison of CLDY to the source data since a combining o...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

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

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...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Planning Planned for future release

Commitment Support for AWS Database Savings Plans

AWS has introduced Database Savings Plans, a commitment-based discount model that reduces eligible managed database costs by up to 35% with an hourly $/hour commitment over a 1-year term, automatically applying each hour to eligible database usage...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

Import tags from the OU in the org

The OU represents all the accounts nested underneath which removes the need to tag each account specifically. If an account is moved to another OU it will inherit the tags instead of manually updating them.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations / Views Under review

Report on GCP Coverage rate as it appears in the Commitment Portfolio

GCP Coverage reporting is not supported in Cloudability reports or dashboards. In order to view, the user must go to the Commitment Portfolio module. Users can create reports and dashboards to view AWS Coverage, but not GCP. For mature FinOps prac...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Submitted

Enhancement to container dashboard

Option to create multiple tables at the end of container dashboard and allow read only users to update date and other filters for their visibility without updating the filters in the actual dashboard
3 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting Submitted

Integration of Snowflake and Couchbase data(FOCUS) to flow from MSP Root Account to Customer Child Unit

Integration of Snowflake and Couchbase Data Flow from MSP Root Account to Customer Child Unit This idea proposes a unified data integration framework to enable seamless flow of structured and unstructured data from the MSP root account to customer...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Submitted

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...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation Submitted