Billing Account Support for Google Cloud Platform -- General Availability

Following up on our coming soon announcement, we have released support for Google Cloud Platform Billing Accounts in CloudHealth. Moving forward, you will no longer configure new projects in CloudHealth. Instead, you will configure your Billing Accounts and all projects will then be derived. For existing customers, no action is required. We will continue to derive new projects once the project incurs a cost.

You’ll now be able to categorize your reports by Billing Accounts. You can use this to compare totals across Billing Accounts, as well as identify which Billing Account your projects are linked to. 

You’ll also now be able to configure a separate Service Account to collect your billing files from your usage information. This will give you more flexibility to restrict access to your billing data in Google Cloud.

Learn how to configure your Google Cloud Platform accounts in this Help Center article. 

New CloudHealth User Interface Design -- Coming Soon

At Connect 2018, we announced a new user interface design for the CloudHealth platform. Many of you have had the opportunity to test it and provide feedback. On January 14th, our new design will be the default for all customers and partners. We will still allow the option to turn off the new design until the beginning of February. We’re excited about this change and we think you’ll enjoy it too!

Over the last year, our developers have leveraged an enhanced design process to support a better user experience in the CloudHealth platform, and we’re thrilled to announce that these enhancements are now available to all customers and partners. While many of the changes may appear subtle, the impact on usability is dramatic.

The enhancements consist of a cleaner and simplified style, removal of unnecessary distractions and wasted space, consistency of key elements in the interface, and adjustments to font and color to improve accessibility. These design changes will fundamentally change the tone and experience of the CloudHealth platform. Please note that the navigation of CloudHealth will not fundamentally change with this update. You will not lose access to any functionality nor have we changed the access to any part of the application.

New AWS Indirect Costs 

We have added indirect cost categorization for AWS Security Hub, AWS Systems Manager, and Comprehend Medical. These services are now represented as their own indirect costs, which can be assigned to Perspective Groups using cost reallocation rules. Previously, these charges were included under Indirect Cost - ‘Other’.