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Cloudability

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Enhance Cloudability to Ingest Azure Invoice Tax and Credit Data(beyond CUR CSV)

Currently Cloudability ingests Azure Cost and Usage Report (CUR ) data through CSV exports (eg: apptio_actual_cost_daily_exports) . These CUR files exclude the tax and credit fields which are only available in the Azure Invoice (PDF) As a result ,...
28 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Link to report from the recommendation details for AWS RDS

AWS RDS is missing a link to the report where it goes into detail which resources would benefit from the reservation. The other services from AWS have this feature.

Add Views for Business Mapping

Southwest Airlines FinOps team utilizes Business Mappings and is aware that some tooling doesn't support the View setup with a Business Mapping.
28 days ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Under review

Expose billing measure variable

The client wants to add a column that shows the billing method for that resource, whether it is per GB, GB/Month, etc. So that they can get more details in their reports.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

The right sizing resources which are displayed should be able to filtered based on the business dimension

When it comes to right-sizing, all the filtering currently happens at the account level, while the information displayed is at the resource level (by resource ID). There needs to be a way to link these two levels so the process becomes more practi...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Functionality already exists

Cloudability - Usage Stats

As a Cloudability admin, I should be able to pull usage statistics directly to understand and improve tool adoption. This should include statistics like count of unique users over time, features used within the tool.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Increase Dimension count via API data pulls

This request is to expand the limits of the reporting API endpoint to allow more than 15 dimensions. We’ve been hitting a limit on that for some of the workflows we have and was hoping there would be a solution for that.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 5 Not under consideration

Rightsizing recommendation support for Elastisearch

I believe that a significant number of customers have considerable spend on key AWS service like Elastisearch. It would be highly valuable to have rightsizing recommendations available for the service to help optimize costs and drive greater effic...
29 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Option to disable the Daily emails on cost summary for across the Org

Hi Team, an option to disable the daily cloud cost summaries emails sent to users would be great, as customer has mentioned the email is irrelevant to the most stakeholders in the org, and currently we cannot disable the emails for other users, ev...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Not under consideration

Commitment Support Azure Blob Storage

A reservation covers storage capacity for Blob storage and Azure Data Lake Gen2 storage. The reservation doesn't cover bandwidth or transaction rates. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and...