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Cloudability

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Update to use amortised metric especially for Azure

With Azure spend if you are using Reservations or Savings plans the spend will only show up in the Cost amortised extracts otherwise under the cost actuals/total it shows zero spend. Therefore the anomaly tracking within Cloudability isn't correct...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

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 the ability to show more decimal places

Hello, Cigna would like to raise an enhancement request to add the ability to increase decimal places beyond 2 within ApptioBI and/or Cloudability. Such as $0.0005.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future 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...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 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...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

We should be able to pull Azure Utilization data into reports and dashboards in Cloudability & Apptio BI

Currently utilization data for Azure is in Resource Inventory. But we need to be able to pull it into reports and create widgets for our dashboards. Our IT teams and leaders would want to see these metrics in a summarized way without having to go ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Ability to generate forecast in plans for up to 6 years

We have some long range commitments with Cloud Service Providers for next 5 years. For us to track that under plans, we will need to forecast for next 6 years starting from this year. But since the current plan feature allows for only up to 3 year...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

CFP - Support Azure Contract Commitments (including 5 year Plan Duration)

Customers would like the ability to track and reconcile their Azure Contract Commitments (e.g., Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA), Enterprise Agreement (EA), Azure Consumption Commitment, Azure Prepayment, etc.) directly within the Cloud Financia...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Need Account Tags used in Account groups as filters in Rightsizing

As a cloud account owner, I need Account Tags as a filter option in Rightsizing. This feature would allow users to more easily filter and analyze rightsizing recommendations based on specific account tags, such as Business Units or Portfolios, mak...
2 months ago in Cloudability 0 Future consideration

Show business dimensions in container reporting

Business dimensions add details that are logic driven vs. directly labeled. Customers want to be able to dynamically add additional information based on K8s labels and be able to filter on those in container insights.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Under review