Update to Credit Allocations — AWS SPP Credits

We have updated the Reseller Discount dimension in the Cost History Report to improve the handling of AWS Solution Provider Program (SPP) credits. You will now find more of these credits allocated under the “Reseller Discount” label to help better categorize your credit types and improve your internal reporting. There is no action required, these credits will automatically be allocated in your environment.

Tag Support for AWS Accounts

We have added tag support for AWS Accounts – you can see this reflected in the platform under Setup > Accounts > AWS. You can use the tags to allocate related assets and charges into Perspective groups, and run configuration policies based on tagging. Remember, CloudHealth tags take precedence over AWS tags. For better sync and reporting of AWS account tags, please remove any CloudHealth account tags that overlap with them or are exact copies of them. If you have not done so already, there are additional permissions that you need to add to your IAM policy:

• organizations:ListAccounts

• organizations:ListTagsForResource

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

AWS Savings Plan Default Dashboard

We’re excited to further enhance our reporting for AWS Savings Plans with the release of a default dashboard. This new dashboard will help you answer key questions around AWS Savings Plans and RI coverage, including savings, waste, where Savings Plans are being applied, and more!

AWS Savings Plans Amortization — Coming Soon

There are different ways to financially account for upfront one time fees – investments that pay off over the course of a longer time period. In addition to the option of reporting based on cash flow, CloudHealth offers the amortization of these upfront fees via an amortization measure in the Amortization Report. Similar to the amortization of RI upfront fees, Savings Plan upfront fees will soon be able to be included in this measure, giving you the option to report as a single one time fee, or as an amortized cost measure spread out over the lifetime of the discount that can be associated to usage and grouped into Perspectives.

Update to Azure VM Disk Metric Collection

We have added support for collecting Azure Guest Metrics. This enables us to collect disk metrics from VMs without installing an agent. Once you enable the extended guest collection within the Azure Portal, we will begin gathering disk information. The instructions to enable extended metrics are here.

Customers who already have guest metric collection enabled for Azure VMs will automatically see disk metrics start to populate.