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Filtering options for recommended types

AWS EBS storage type filtering requirement: Need to exclude SC1 storage type from right-sizing recommendations. SC1 proposals create false savings reports that require manual explanation why not going to SC1. So if we can have a filtering option t...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 2 Future consideration

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...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Request for Enhancement in Apptio BI Reporting Based on CFP Plan

We would like the ability in Apptio BI to create a calculated metric—similar to what is available in the CFP plan—that combines Year-to-Date (YTD) actuals with forecast data. For example, if we are in June, the YTD cost calculation should include ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Provide Right Sizing Preferences for Databases and/or split by base organisation.

As an Administrator of our Cloudability environment I would like to be able to configure some base preferences for the RightSizing algorithm for use in the Database section (particularly AWS RDS, and certain DBEngines like PostgreSQL and Oracle). ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Option to count e.g. number of cloud accounts

We have another KPI to track the growth of cloud accounts or number of projects
10 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Rightsizing recommendation support for Elasticache

Hi team, I believe that a significant number of customers have considerable spend on key AWS services like ElastiCache . It would be highly valuable to have rightsizing recommendations available for the service to help optimize costs and drive gre...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Feature Request – Display Account Name and Account ID in Rightsizing ROI Screen

We would like to request the ability to display the Account Name and Account ID in the Rightsizing ROI screen.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Customizable metric multiplier / threshold for rightsizing recommendation

In some production enviroments, workloads are intentionally overprovisioned to allow for burst capacity, stability or failover requirements.In most cases this is has to do with compliance and regulations bound apps. We propose addig a metric multi...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

List of all ApptioBI Reports to which logged in User is subscribed

This would either be a new menu item that provides a list of the reports that the user is subscribed to, or a new filter on the reports page that enables you to select those reports that you are subscribed to (ideally in conjunction with other fil...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Provide public API to update Rightsizing ROI tickets or add comments

One of my customer in inquiring if we can enable or consider enabling write access for cloudability API V3. When it comes to rightsizing ROI data, the cloudability API V3 is read only, which is preventing them from adding comments or updating entt...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration