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Add dimensions to Apptio BI to mirror info from Rightsizing

Add more dimensions regarding Rightsizing data source in Apptio BI. Currently we have situations where in Apptio BI reporting we have only current and recommended instance type but that is not what is being recommended to be changed: for example, ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Ability to filter container labels with not equals, contains, does not contain

Since containers are not available in reports, customers want to be able filter their container data based on mulitple criteria similar to what they could do in reporting (contains, does not equal, does not contain).
27 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Submitted

Improve Rightsizing Preferences

** I'm using EBS as an example, but this would apply for all the services. ** Introduce the capability to customize Amazon EBS volume recommendations in Cloudability’s rightsizing preferences, allowing users to exclude specific EBS volume types (e...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

We would like to see labels / annotations at a pod-level instead of a cluster-level via report or API

Our internal team tags their Kubernetes clusters at a pod level because they track their client's usage via pods since it's more granular. However, right now Cloudability reports and API pulls only give us access to cluster level labels & anno...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Cloudability feature that analyzes Azure Event Hubs and reports over-provisioning and rightsizing recommendations

What We Need A Cloudability feature that analyzes Azure Event Hubs usage and tells us when we're paying for more capacity than we need (or when we're about to hit limits). Since tier and capacity are set at the namespace level, we need rightsizing...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation 0 Submitted

Cloudability API to check status of credentialed Azure subscriptions

Softcat would like to implement an API call whereby they can check the status of an Azure subscription. This is good governance around implementing a process that can programatically check the status of Azure subscriptions and if they need to be c...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Under review

Provide "Effective" Rate reporting (not just on demand)

In both ABI and Cloudability rather than just show the potential "on demand" rates for rightsizing opportunities, show the "effective" rate taking into account the customer discounts / EDP / RI / commitments to make the outcomes more real for cust...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Normalize region naming conventions between datasets for Cloud Service Providers and SaaS Services, E.g. AWS & Databricks on AWS.

Problem:Right now we have Cloudability vendor credentialling set up for our AWS organizations and our AWS-hosted Databricks account. The vendor regions in the data sets has different naming conventions even though in reality they represent the sam...
19 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Under review

Add Purchasing Account Name in Tables on Commitment Portfolio for RIs

It would be helpful to on the Commitment Portfolio page, when selecting AWS RIs, to show the purchasing account. When selecting Savings Plans, you do get the account name included. This would help the central FinOps team be able to quickly analyze...

Commitment Support for Azure AI Foundry Provisioned Throughput

All available commitment types should be included in the list of purchased commitments My company is using "openai_provisioned_throughput" as a way of savings on AI usage. Currently those reservations are not listed in Cldy making it difficult for...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 2 Future consideration