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Cloudability

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Currently OCI Exadata databases are purchased similar to commitments, where blocks are reserved and paid for like a commitment expense e.g. microsoft sentinel. The actual Exadata units can be tagged, but produce 0% cost and there's no usage visibi...
about 3 hours ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Cloudability Dashboard sharing should create link that preserves the settings of the FILTERS at top of page for 1-click DEEPLINK that can be shared via slack or email or put on wiki or generated programmatically creating URL with filtered argument

Why Useful? - More efficient and sharing of Database with filters selected to help recipient effortlessly see exactly what sendor wants with 1 click of DEEPLINK that retains the filtered settings. If there's a dashboard that has a filter for AWS A...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release

Add support to Currency Code = HUF in Cloudability UI

Customer have billing files in Currency Code = HUF and they would like to add support for this currency in the Cloudability UI so all features ( Reporting, Dashboard, Anomaly, Budgeting, RightSizing) are shown in HUF currency
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration

Version Control Improvements for Business Mappings

Apptio Costing and Planning has a native version control that allows a monthly table to retain schema, layout, etc. from 1 time period to another (between versions). Cloudability's business mapping today requires users to add "Date" and manually s...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Enable Cloudability to ingest and surface OpenAI Codex usage and associated costs, allowing customers to monitor, analyze, and manage their AI-related spend alongside their existing cloud costs.

As organizations increasingly adopt AI-assisted development tools such as OpenAI Codex, AI spend is becoming another category of technology expenditure that FinOps teams need to monitor. The customers would like to use Cloudability as a centralize...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Add a "Select All/Clear All" in "Scopes" and "SI Types" in "Saving Dashboard" in CSA

When multiple accounts are in scope and managed by CSA, you need the ability to select All or "Clear All" scopes. This is important if you have say 15 accounts and want to deselect 2, it can be done with just 3 clicks than with 13 clicks. Same app...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation 0 Submitted

Expand Optimization and Rightsizing Coverage

Cloudability performs well for traditional optimization areas such as EC2 and RDS, but we continue to identify significant savings opportunities through other tools that Cloudability does not surface. During roadmap reviews we highlighted that ext...
28 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

To add in the Column Section in the Rightsizing Section the Potential Carbon Reduction for a specific Recommendation

To add a Column in the Rightsizing section an optin to see the Potential Carbon Reduction for any specific recommendation provided in Cloudability. Since this Potential Carbon Reduction is being provided by CSP's billings, this could be implemente...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Additional Rightsizing Recommendation Types

The current rightsizing engine is useful but too narrowly focused. We would like to see: More recommendation categories beyond traditional instance resizing. Workload-aware recommendations. Rightsizing guidance for managed services. Optimization r...
28 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Add Coverage Threshold to Commitment Alerts

Currently, commitment alerts only cover expiring commitments and utilization thresholds. However, Coverage is also an important KPI that customers would want to be alerted on. Please consider adding support for Coverage-based alerts as well. Thanks!
11 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 2 Future consideration