Azure Tier 2 Billing — General Availability

We are excited to announce general availability of Azure Tier 2 Billing support. With this release, we are providing Tier 2 resellers with the same features and functionality as we are for our current CSP Direct partners.

The feature does require a Tier 1 partner to be involved in the initial CloudHealth configuration, but beyond that the Tier 2 reseller has the ability to provide cost visibility, cost optimization, and governance to their customers.

Learn more about CloudHealth’s Tier 2 Billing support in this Help Center article.

Support for Azure CSP Gov Cloud

We recently added support for Azure Government Cloud for CSPs. This means that we now support CSP and Azure Government CSP. Both of these can be configured together in a single CloudHealth tenant and will have the same functionality across cost, rightsizing, reservations, and governance.

Learn more about CloudHealth’s support for Azure CSP Gov Cloud in this Help Center article.

User Permissions Search

We added a search component to our User Permissions page. Previously, in order to define a new role you had to manually pick a set of permissions from a list of 2,500 possible privileges. This new ability to search and grant permissions from a smaller list makes updating and creating a role much simpler and easier. Currently, this search capability works on the sections only. A follow-up enhancement will search a pattern across individual privileges too.

Update to Perspective Editor with Searchable Drop-downs — Coming Soon

Within the next week, we’ll be rolling out enhanced drop-downs on our Perspective pages. Contents will be sorted to make it easier to find and select an option. Additionally, these drop-downs will have search capability, meaning you’ll be able to type what you are looking for and focus on related options.

Update Your IAM Policy Permissions — Action Required

We’re in the process of adding the following functionality in our platform:

• Tag collection for AWS Accounts

• Ability to identify which accounts have opted in which regions

If you update your IAM policy using the auto-generated IAM policy in the platform, no further action is required. If you update your IAM policy manually, there are additional permissions that you need to add to your IAM policy:

• organizations:ListAccounts

• organizations:ListTagsForResource

• ec2:DescribeRegions

Learn more about updating AWS account policies in this Help Center article.

Update to Benchmark Pricing — Depreciation

You now have the flexibility to override the default depreciation method and the depreciation period for the Server Hardware cost driver. By default, the Server Hardware cost driver uses the ‘Max of Double or Straight’ method over a period of 5 years. Now, the depreciation method can be changed to a straight line method (which depreciates the asset in equal proportions over useful life) and period is editable from default value of 5 years.