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Cloudability

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Cloudability MCP (Model Context Protocol)

We are currently building a FinOps Assistant GENAI, we have already other sources to enhance our FinOps assistant e.g AWS Billing and Cost Management official MCP, JIRA official MCP, DataDog official MCP and so on. What we are missing now is the C...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Compare an application with different zone / csp in WLP

The idea would be to take a tag / business mapping and all the resources linked to that application, push them into WLP and be able to compare the actual costs with the cost from different regions / CSP to evaluate where it would be the cheapest t...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 0 Submitted

Adjustable lookback period for rightsizing recommendations is required.

Currently only 2 options for lookback period are available: 1. 10 day 2. 30 day I want lookback period to be adjustable up to 90 days, as 90 days sufficiently account for the seasonality in workload utilisation.
5 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Auto Update for Cost Sharing Rules, when Namespaces are updated.

We would like to use the Cost Sharing Feature based on a Business Dimension to have an automated showback/chargeback process for shared costs in Accounts with Container setups. Therfore we use the feature to split gernal cost (which is not tied to...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Colour (color) control in chart-type widgets

We are finding that some users are becoming confused with the colours in chart-type widgets in Cloudability Dashboards, particularly when tracking differing timelines. I have attached an example where for a given timeline, AWS ECS was the primary ...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Create business mapping dimensions dynamically

I'd like to be able to create business mappings dynamically. For example, using regular expressions to dynamically create new business mappings each time an expression is matched. I would be much easing rather than create a specific statement for ...
30 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Submitted

Should be able to see anomalies at business dimensions and tag level. Currently it is limited to Azure subscription group level.

Current anomalies are at subscription group level. We need to manually check which Application is causing the anomaly for each one of them by creating a report and doing further analysis which is time consuming. We should be able to have anomalies...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Provide Right Sizing Preferences for Databases and/or split by base organisation.

As an Administrator of our Cloudability environment I would like to be able to configure some base preferences for the RightSizing algorithm for use in the Database section (particularly AWS RDS, and certain DBEngines like PostgreSQL and Oracle). ...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Add heat map widget charts

Heat maps can show a larger amount of data at one point for status and give an idea how big each area of concern is. They support understanding data density, trends and patterns in large data sets. Customers use this diagram type in other applicat...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release

Use data from AWS CUR normalized_usage_amount available as Normalized Usage Hours

Using the same normalized usage amount as the CUR provides will allow customers to understand how the flexible RIs are allocated. These kinds of RIs can fluctuate between instances and information on usage amounts will help in understanding why th...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted