Locale selector icon
Feb202111

Azure Modern Commerce Multi-currency Support

We have released the ability to apply currency conversion to costs incurred by Modern Commerce subscriptions. Using the currency setting in the tenant, you can now control which currency your costs should be viewed as.

Example: If some of your customers are being billed in EUR and others in GBP, but you select USD in the settings menu, we will convert the costs for all Modern Commerce subscriptions to USD.

To apply the conversion, we first use a value in the Microsoft API that comes with each line item called exchangeRateDate which equals the day that the currency was calculated. Then, we do a lookup at the beginning of that day for the exchange rate using OANDA, and calculate using that rate.

If you currently have multiple currencies configured in your partner or customer tenants, or have updated the setting in CloudHealth to be something other than the Microsoft bill, this change was applied to February but not prior months. If you would like this change applied to historical months, please reach out to support@cloudhealthtech.com. 

Partner | Change to GCP Reseller Credits

Starting this week, we will no longer filter out reseller credits if you configure a master billing account export in your partner tenant. We will continue to filter out these credits for all customer tenants. You will start to see credits showing up for January and February in your partner tenant this week. If you would like them to be collected for all months, please reach out to support@cloudhealthtech.com. 

Update to FlexReports - Perspectives Support for AWS

We’re pleased to announce the general availability of Perspectives as a dimension in FlexReports for the AWS Cost & Usage (CUR) dataset. You can now segregate AWS CUR data based on available Perspectives for interactive reporting in CloudHealth. You will be able to select one or more Perspectives as dimensions or filters to slice-and-dice measures of interest.

Learn more about Perspectives support for AWS as a dimension in FlexReports in this Help Center Article.

Update to FlexReports - Report Query Editor Public Beta

With the introduction of FlexReports you were able to select measures, dimensions, and filters and view the query constructed out of these parameters. Today, we’re happy to announce that the report query is available to edit as a public beta, so you can make modifications or write more complex queries using the Query Editor directly. The FlexReports Report Query Editor will give you an option to ‘Restore’ in case you would like to revert back to the original state. You can edit the query and preview the results of the modified/enhanced query immediately, emulating the capability of an API client.

Learn more about FlexReports Report Query Editor in this Help Center Article.

Update to Amazon EC2 Rightsizing

In order to provide you with actionable Amazon EC2 rightsizing recommendations, our algorithm ensures that any cross-family rightsizing instance recommendations are compatible. To that end, we’ve updated the following instance families/types in the CloudHealth platform to have an NVMe storage type:

  • i3

  • i3en

  • c6gd

  • f1

  • g4ad

  • g4dn

  • m5dn

  • m6gd

  • r5dn

  • r6gd

  • c5d.12xlarge

  • c5d.24xlarge

  • m5ad.8xlarge

  • m5ad.16xlarge

  • p3dn.24xlarge

  • r5ad.8xlarge

  • r5ad.16xlarge

With the existing rightsizing logic, these instance types will be matched with other NVMe storage type instances going forward to provide better, directly compatible recommendations.

Learn more about EC2 Instance Rightsizing Recommendations in this Help Center Article.

Update Your IAM Policy Permissions - Action Required

Many customers have reported excessive, unauthorized calls across all AWS accounts for ListAccounts. This happens when ListAccounts is called on a member account versus a management account. Nothing changed with respect to CloudHealth’s use of ListAccounts, however, on January 8th, AWS made a change that resulted in AccessDenied exceptions being logged in CloudTrail when ListAccounts is called against a member account. So the exception, which we expect, became more visible to customers.

We have implemented a change that resolves this problem; customers should update their IAM policy to include “organizations:DescribeOrganization,” which is now part of the default IAM policy when you create a new account.

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

Updates to Azure Reservation Reporting

We have recently updated the product categorizations on the Microsoft Azure Cost History Report to break out Reservation Orders into Monthly vs. Upfront. We also introduced a new credit value called “Reservation Orders - Refunds.”

Update to Azure RI Amortization

We have introduced a new category on the Azure VM RI Amortization Report called “Reservation Status.” This can be used to view your reservation usage and determine which reservations are being underutilized each month.

Ability to Hide Critical Enrollment Status for Expired Access Keys in Azure

For historical enrollments that are in a critical state due to expired Access Keys, you now have the ability to ignore the error so that the banner is no longer visible in the platform for you or any other users. To do this, edit the Azure Enrollment and uncheck the setting “Access Key Expired Alerts.”