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Cloudability

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Ability to Restrict API Key Creation by Role

Currently any Cloudability user can create API Keys. The only way to prevent end users from creating API Keys is to disable API Keys completely across the domain. However admins need API Keys to be able to do some admin related tasks for both Clou...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 1 Future consideration

Add email subscription option for Cloudability Optimize Rightsizing Recommendations

Problem:Right now a user can only retrieve rightsizing recommendations relevant to them by going into the Optimize Rightsizing UI, applying relevant filters to narrow it down to infrastructure thei own and seeing if there are any results. This is ...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Request for ec2 permissions be added: DescribeInstances permission to be provided for all AWS linked accounts, which would be needed to determine whether a given instance was explicitly terminated.

The client was experiencing an issue with the recommendations that Cloudability shows. In the Optimize section there is a subsection called Rightsizing, which is where we can see the optimization recommendations based on the resources we have in t...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Functionality already exists

Carbon calculation updates - factor in flexibility/history archive or rebaseline for customer operational processes

The recent update to the Carbon calculations in CLDY has highlighted an improvement area that would help with customer adoption. Customers who baselined using the previous calcs would have seen their numbers jump 4x with the recent change to the c...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Under review

enable the feature to enlarge the column in Cost sharing

Issue: customer cannot enlarge this first column resulting into the statement name are truncated. Issue is happening at : Go to CloudabilityGo to Organize -> Cost sharingGo to Explorerwe are able to decrease and increase the length of first col...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Regarding the option to retrieve data in Pricing Currency instead of Billing Currency on Azure

When importing Azure cost data into Cloudability, the system currently uses the Billing Currency. However, it appears that Apptio BI uses the Pricing Currency instead. Because Cloudability relies on the Billing Currency, we must manually upload ex...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Under review

Add Snapshot Launch date

We would be able to see the date when a snapshot has been created and would be able to monitor the existence and cost of a snapshot by filtering on the launch date column. This would enable us to address historic snapshots that are no longer requi...
16 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Future consideration

Add Effective Costs and Savings from Rightsizing to Apptio BI

Hi Team, Would you please consider to add Effective Costs and Savings from Rightsizing to Apptio BI? Right now, only on-demand is being displayed, as these costs are usually higher, they create wrong expectations within the organization. Thanks fo...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Add the Friendly Region Name in workload planning

currently in the workload plannig there is only the region coding (e.g. eu-south1) and not the friendly name (e.g. Milan) for both clouds. Having the friendly name present would simplify the region search even for the inexperienced and speed up th...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 1 Under review

AWS Splitting Credit Costs by category

I request that you break down the credits by category (see Description Item) on both the plan and the forcast so that we have the ability to make more accurate predictions. I attach the screenshot of AWS which already natively has this functionali...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted