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Commitment Support for AWS Database Savings Plans

AWS has introduced Database Savings Plans, a commitment-based discount model that reduces eligible managed database costs by up to 35% with an hourly $/hour commitment over a 1-year term, automatically applying each hour to eligible database usage...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 4 Planned for future release

Timeframe Reporting - set future end dates

Timeframe reporting would be much more useful to me if I could set my own Fiscal year and show spend from april 2025 to april 2026. At the current rate, I have to hard set each date to the end of 2025 and scramble to add the new months once januar...
about 1 hour ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Add Quantity data into visualizations like resource count

I want to show compliance in the Bi dashboards to show how many resources in an account are rate optimized or using AHUB benefits or are generally under management by a specifed owner. Please add unit metrics into Apptio BI
about 1 hour ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

COIN Score cannot be incorporated into Apptio BI without purchasing TBM Studio

I want to use the COIN score from the new optimization dashboard but I can't get it in the Apptio BI dashboard without purchasing the TBM studio software. Please add a way to incorporate parts of the optimization dashboard into Apptio BI.
about 1 hour ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Workload planning tool does not allow for set features on SKUs such as accelerated networking or CPU brand preferences

I have multiple workload that are optimized for Intel CPUs and require accelerated networking or accelerated write functionality (M-series). I would like to be able to identify those SKUs when planning large workloads.
about 1 hour ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 0 Submitted

Track Orphaned network and disk resources within Apptio suite

I need to remove tech debt and save money from removing unused Private endpoints, ip addresses, app service plans, managed disks, and empty storage accounts. Please add functionality to track orphaned resources and the cleanup operations of removi...
about 2 hours ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Improved tag tracking for compliance percentage

I want to incorporate tag compliance percentage into its own dashboard within apptio BI and show a pie chart of how many resources are untagged, or partially tagged.
about 2 hours ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Lock widgets from dynamic filtering

I would like the ability to lock widgets from the global filters. I have my dashboard separated by the reporting timeframe and I want to keep them from changing with the global filter. Same with selecting custom dimensions from the global filters....
about 2 hours ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Show Underutilized RIs and SPs

I need a master dashboard to show all savings achievable, completed, and exclusions. I would like to use the data from the other tools within apptio to create widgets that show the utilization of reserved instances and savings plans, much like i w...
about 2 hours ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Improved forecast data in BI charts (Based off last complete day)

Id like to see improved forecasting from historical data based off of set lookback periods. Ideally this would be available within an Apptio BI widget visualization to show what the next week/month/quarter spend will be based off the last complete...
about 2 hours ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted