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Cloudability

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Allow customers to remove disassociated cloud accounts from Vendor Credentials

It would be good to have the ability to remove accounts from Vendor Credentials that are disassociated or removed from the cloud provider. It doesn't cause harm; it's a question of clean-up and overall management.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Under review

Additional Commitment Support - Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Only the compute costs are included with a reservation. A reservation doesn't cover software, networking, or storage charges associated with the PostgreSQL Database servers. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Assign Accounts to Customers with easy

On Cloudalibilty Apptio, if you have several customers with several vendors and several account per vendor, you have on Organization page to manually selecte every account to assign to your customer. The screen behaviour is horrible, with no facil...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 1 Planned for future release

Rightsizing ROI to automatically track updates for the tickets created on 10 day Timeline and Incorrect Identification of Rightsized resources.

Currently if a customer is creating a rightsizing ticket for a 10 day timeline, the ticket is not getting updated automatically unless for the same recommendation exist for a 30 day timeline for the same resource id. Also if a resource has been ri...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

Option to select Effective costs in the RightSizing Explorer page

The rest of the pages have the option to show effective costs but not the landing page which only shows on-demand
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Can we create an ApptioBI report with a dropdown filter that would have options to show Total Cost, List Cost and Amortized Cost?

Useful to have a dropddown that shows the different costs.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 3 Future consideration

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Be able to create parenthesis in filter and select if AND or OR

Be able to create parenthesis in filter and select if AND or OR. For example be able to filter for vendor AWS, usage family Storage and for Azure, usage family Instances (vendor=AWS AND usage family = storage) OR (vendor=Azure AND usage family=Ins...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 3 Under review

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...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Under review

Rightsizing ROI with a group of resources

in our finops governance, we assign optimization actions to our engineering teams. As a Finops lead, I would like to be able to assign a set of recommendations for an application (through the TAG value), not per resource type (EC2, RDS, EBS etc). ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration