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Expiring RI for RDS, add column for Engine type

For expiring RDS RIs, it would be very useful to have the engine added to the table that is sent via email subscription.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Future consideration

Add support for displaying Fiscal Years as per UK accounting convention

Cloud Financial Planning currently doesn't support the conventional way of displaying a UK Fiscal Year that spans 2 calendar year. For example, a Fiscal Year that runs for 12 months from April (Yr1) to March (Yr2) can only be displayed as either F...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Future consideration

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric in reports. This is for Cloudability in general. Sometimes we want to have the data ordered first by one dimension and then by other and it is not possible. Example first by payer account then b...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

Introduction of SSO/SAML based authentication for AWS plugin in addition to current access/secret key method

all the current AWS/Amazon plugins are currently supporting only AWS access/secret key IDs - we would like to be able to use SSO/SAML based authentication as it is de facto standard in our organization. Most of the access/systems/platforms are usi...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Show who to ask for access when report/dashboard not available

When someone provides a link to a dashboard or report that is not shared with the user, they get a message "Sorry you do not have access to this dashboard" and a link to the list of dashboards available to them.It would be helpful to know who to a...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

Implementation of Periodic Resynchronization Feature from Symphony Files to IWS DB or Addition of Synchronization Failure Detection Capability

In my team, an operational error occurred during job status checks in DWC. The root cause was the inability to confirm the latest job execution results in DWC for several hours. (This occurred due to the synchronization failure from Symphony fi...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

BI reports local download feat.

Current process of exporting data/reports via email adds up extra step to the workflow. The tool triggers an email with URL instead of local downloads creating a second hop & adding additional step to get the dataset required for breakdown ana...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Expose View Details to Non Admins

We would like our end users to have visibility into how a View is created, but without giving them rights to create/edit views. This will empower them to fully understand how a view is defined. We should give read-only access to View tab to non-ad...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Future consideration

Improve Right Sizing ROI policy to filter out different types (e.g. ignore EBS gp2/sc1 recommendations)

Currently seeing lot's of recommendations to change EBS to GP2. AWS is strongly recommending moving GP2 to GP3 so it's bizarre to recommend the reverse. Want to alter the policy to ignore such options, or only show GP3.
9 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Broadcom APM inetgration with Apptio Cloudability for Memory Utilization

We are currently using Apptio Cloudability for cloud cost optimization and visibility, and we rely on memory utilization data to generate accurate rightsizing recommendations. As part of this setup, Apptio typically requires CloudWatch Agents or D...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 2 Future consideration