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Cloudability

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Customers need Effective Rightsizing Cost Metric for both 10 OR 30 days in ABI

So that customers can see in ABI reports the same output as rightsizing UI and utilise the reporting more effectively.
28 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

On dashboard widgets created with a grouping, it would be useful to be able to deselect all categories rather than only being able to deselect 1 at a time.

On dashboard widgets created with a grouping, it would be useful to be able to deselect all categories rather than only being able to deselect 1 at a time. For widgets that only have 3 or 4 categories the current functionality works fine but if th...
23 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Planned for future release

Sort Vendor Credentials Account Names

There appears to be no sort order for Vendor Account Names within an Account. As an example we have an Azure Enterprise account with 100 subscriptions. The order of the subscriptions listed under the account appears to be random and although you c...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Other / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Needs more information

More than one possible date range on the layover chart

Currently, it is only possible to have one type of range in the layout, which is in the first layer. When we add more than one layer, we cannot add a different range. For example, if I am in a column of daily expenses, and I would like to enter th...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Add assignment option at policy creation

When creating policies, there is no option to select an assignee. If the policy creates 250 cloudability issues, then we have to go through each task and manually add the assignee. It would be incredibly helpful to select the assignee name at poli...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Have the ability to have private API keys for Container Cost Insights enablement

Having one key for the entire organization is a risk.
20 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 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

Provide option to enable or disable the "Total" row in the table widgets

The newly enhanced UI with the "total" row added for evey widget consumes a lot more space than it used to earlier and sometimes adds unnecessary spaces in between the data. It would be great if you can add the "total" row as an option, which the ...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

Right sizing - Snooze mode: Enable Bulk Snooze Functionality for Right Sizing Resources

Description: Currently, the snooze mode feature in the right sizing tool only allows users to snooze resources one at a time. This approach can be time-consuming and inefficient, particularly when managing a large number of resources that require ...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Submitted

Lack of Encryption at Rest Controls

Last year when we raised this we were told that there is no encryption in transit within VPC as it would cause an unacceptable performance loss. Is this still the case or is this now possible
8 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted