Skip to Main Content
Cloud Management and AIOps


This is an IBM Automation portal for Cloud Management, Technology Cost Management, Network Automation and AIOps products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).

Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.

Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

Status Future consideration
Workspace Cloudability
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 10, 2026

Auto-detect historical CUR changes and refetch

Currently, Cloudability’s one-month lookback window for AWS CUR changes creates a "data drift" between the cloud provider's billing truth and the FinOps platform. AWS frequently applies retroactive adjustments—such as EDP credits, refund corrections, BMods, or Savings Plan/Reserved Instance (RI) backdated adjustments—that can fall outside the 30-day window.

Without this feature, FinOps teams must manually request "backfills," leading to inaccurate reporting, audit risks (GL mismatch), and manual overhead (by both customer and IBM in identifying and fixing data discrepancies).

Who Would Benefit
FinOps Practitioners - Saves hours of manual reconciliation and support ticket management
Finance/Accounting - Ensure the "source of truth" for cloud spend is accurate for long-term budgeting and tax reporting
Executive Leadership - Provides confidence in ROI calculations and long-term spend trend analysis (e.g., 3Y CAGR)

How It Should Work
Automated Manifest Monitoring: Cloudability should continuously monitor the AWS CUR S3 bucket manifest files.
Change Detection: If a manifest file is updated for any month within the last 36 months (covers up to 3 year commitments), the system should flag that month for re-ingestion.
Configurable Lookback: Provide an administrative setting where users can define the maximum lookback window (e.g., 12, 24, or 36 months) to balance data processing needs.
Differential Processing: Ideally, the system should identify the specific changes to minimize processing overhead, but at a minimum, it should trigger a full re-ingestion of the affected month’s data.
Status Notification: Provide a "Data Integrity" dashboard or log showing when historical months were last updated due to detected CUR changes.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Admin
    Priyanshu Kakkar
    Mar 12, 2026

    Hello Thanks for the detailed feedback on this topic.

    I would like to share that currently Cloudability looks at current and previous month for CUR changes and automatically ingests the new CUR for current and previous month.

    I am trying to gather more insights on this -

    • Would you be able to share how often the historical CURs (> 2 months) are getting updated ?

    • Are these changes being done by AWS automatically or there are support tickets being logged with AWS for corrections.