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Cloudability

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Estimate required Compute Savings Plans Commitment to reach target coverage

It would be very valuable to have a feature in Cloudability that allows us to input a desired AWS Compute Savings Plans coverage percentage, and receive an estimate of the required hourly commitment to achieve that coverage.Use case : We must manu...

Have ability to enter a hypothetical Savings Plan purchase amount and terms and return estimated savings and coverage metrics

Problem:Right now the Optimize → Commitment Recs → AWS → Compute Savings Plan recommendation tooling only provides recommendations to achieve maximum savings coverage for current workloads. However, some organizations have a lower risk tolerance a...

Ability to share a link to a report that automatically applies global filters, date selections and tab selection

Problem:Right now if a colleague asks me a question that can be answered by an Apptio BI report with certain filters applied and looking at a specific tab, I need to:Sh Share the link to the report itself Tell them what tab to go to within the rep...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Add Visualization on view as WEEKLY in visualization report

to better visualize data on weekly progress on savings
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Submitted

Add Unit of Measure as a Dimension in Cloudability

While Usage Quantity is a metric, the corresponding Unit of Measure if not a dimension that is surfaced in Cloudability. Without Unit of Measure, it is not always possible to tell what is being measure/billed in Usage Quantity (hour, GB, core, etc...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2 Needs more information

Ability to see available and utiltized TPU cores and memory in container insights

Customers would like to see the available and utilized TPU cores and memory in container insights. They can see Idle in costs but not in utilization.
17 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Ability to see available and utiltized GPU cores in container insights

Customers would like to see the available and utilized GPU cores in container insights. They can see Idle in costs but not in utilization.
17 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Rightsizing support for MSK clusters

Rightsizing support for MSKAWS MSK: https://aws.amazon.com/msk/ GCP MSK: https://cloud.google.com/managed-service-for-apache-kafka/docs/overview
18 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Container recommendations should include recommendations where limits = request for all resources and one where they are not identical.

Customers would like to see recommendations where they can guarantee that the workload will have the resources as well as ones where the ability is variable (limit does not equal requested). Different workloads have different needs. It would be he...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Updated UI when importing Budgets with values that don't load.

Customers want to allow for future planned expenses in their budgets. Sometimes these future plans are not reflected in the current values available in the costing dimensions in Plans. Customer would like to be able to add "dummy" or future planne...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted