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Cloudability

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Add Snapshot Launch date

We would be able to see the date when a snapshot has been created and would be able to monitor the existence and cost of a snapshot by filtering on the launch date column. This would enable us to address historic snapshots that are no longer requi...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Future consideration

Ability to Restrict API Key Creation by Role

Currently any Cloudability user can create API Keys. The only way to prevent end users from creating API Keys is to disable API Keys completely across the domain. However admins need API Keys to be able to do some admin related tasks for both Clou...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 1 Future consideration

Include AWS Lambda Functions with detailed metadata in Resource Inventory

We would like to request the inclusion of AWS Lambda functions in the Cloudability Resource Inventory, along with relevant metadata such as runtime version, memory size, timeout configuration and associated tags. This would enable improved visibil...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Future consideration

Adding sustainability metrics to rightsizing recommendations

There is strong evidence industry wide that a large percentage of engineers are more likely to take action based off carbon emission reduction recommendation than cost. ( largely as engineers may not have a budget responsibility as part of their r...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Expiring RI for RDS, add column for Engine type

For expiring RDS RIs, it would be very useful to have the engine added to the table that is sent via email subscription.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Future consideration

Enhance/Limit role permission for ViewsFeatureCreateOwnViewsAccess

As the FinOps practitioner for a large organization, it is important that our tenants are able to be self sufficient in their data. As such, we have implemented a custom Cloudability user role that contains the permission ViewsFeatureCreateOwnView...
21 days ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 1 Future consideration

Tracking Snowflake prepaid credits

In the case of Snowflake and Azure Databricks, we prepay for a set number of capacity units. In the case of Databricks, it is DBUs. Each job that runs, etc, has a DBU spend attached to it. This is the same for Snowflake. It comes through as $0 dol...
23 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support Azure Blob Storage

A reservation covers storage capacity for Blob storage and Azure Data Lake Gen2 storage. The reservation doesn't cover bandwidth or transaction rates. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Include actual field names for metadata in the Resource Inventory Extract

Currently, the Resource Inventory csv extract shows only generic ("Tag 42") field headings. The actual field headings ("Cost Center") are available in the UI, and these same headings should appear in the csv extract, otherwise the exported data is...
24 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Future consideration

Rightsizing Widget: Increase Data Window from 10 to 30 Days

Currently, the Rightsizing widget displays data for only the past 10 days, but based on suggestion from ticket TS019147686, we propose extending this to a 30-day range.
25 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration