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Cloudability/Optimize/Commitment Portfolio - add Payer Id, and Account Id/Name

As a member of a central FinOps team, covering multiple AWS and Azure payer accounts, we would like to be able to filter the Commitment Portfolio by Payer Id and/or the 'hosting' Vendor Account Name / Id that has the purchased items. Currently the...

Support for AI services on Cloudability Sustainability Reporting

As part of our GreenAI initiative, we would like to be able to report on sustainability metrics for AI-related services on all three major cloud providers (eg: Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, GCP Vertex AI). This is not currently available, could yo...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration

Increase the granularity of DynamoDB metrics to support hourly basis analysis

The idea is to have the metrics for a few products persistent on an hourly basis so the users can do a deeper analysis of their usage. Today, the customer is using a tool from AWS Marketplace called CUDOS to do that. https://aws.amazon.com/pt/blog...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards / Resource Inventory 1 Functionality already exists

Add filters in Rightsizing ROI to separate Deleted/Terminated savings from Rightsizing-only savings

Currently, Rightsizing ROI shows combined savings from all optimization actions. Customers cannot distinguish between savings from rightsizing (downsize/resize) versus decommissioning (delete/terminate). This inflates the ROI picture and makes it ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Anomaly Detection with Intelligent Application Capability

Today, Anomaly Detection alerts you when spend spikes or drops but all remediation is manual. This delay often means real money wasted before action is taken. By embedding workflows, Anomaly Detection can suggest and trigger corrective actions imm...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Intelligent Budget Reallocation & Forecast Adjustment in CFP

Right now, CFP only tells you when a team overspends but you have to fix it manually. Example: Finance sees that Marketing overspent budget by 10% in CFP. They must go into another system, reallocate budget, get approvals from Finance, and inform ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Under review

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...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 2 Future consideration

More dimensions on reporting on Azure Log Analytics

This feature request is regarding Azure Log Analytics. Cloudability should provide visibility into how many GBs of logs are ingested per application or log source, and to categorize log types (e.g., dependencies, performance, AzureMetrics, etc.) i...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

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

Enable month-specific fixed weightages in Cost Sharing (prevent retroactive changes)

Why it is useful Currently, Cost Sharing rules apply retroactively across all months. If a user changes a fixed weightage (e.g., from 10% to 20%), past months are automatically updated. This behavior creates inaccurate historical cost views and pr...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Planned for future release