Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instance Optimizer and Reporting -- General Availability

We’re pleased to announce the general availability of comprehensive support for Azure Reserved Virtual Machine (VM) Instances, from planning purchases to analyzing usage. Azure Reserved VM Instances will be supported in the following CloudHealth reports and tools:

• Asset Report

• Cost History Report

• Current Cost Report

• Amortized Cost Report *New* 

• Virtual Machine Cost Report

• Virtual Machine RI Amortization Report *New* 

• Virtual Machine Usage Report

• Virtual Machine RI Inventory Report *New*

• Virtual Machine RI Utilization Report *New*

• Virtual Machine RI Underutilization Report *New*

• Virtual Machine RI Optimizer *New*

Learn more about Azure Reservations in this Help Center article.  

Tag Support for RDS Security Groups 

We have added tag support for RDS Security Groups -- you can see this reflected in the platform in the RDS Security Groups Asset Report, use them to allocate these assets (and all related resources) into Perspective groups, and run configuration policies based on tagging. Note that while RDS Security Groups do not have costs associated with them, the advantage of allocating them to Perspectives is that it will pull all dependent related resources into the Perspective Group as well.If you update your IAM policy using the auto-generated IAM policy in the platform, no further action is required to take advantage of this new capability. If you update your IAM policy manually, there are additional permissions that you need to add to your IAM policy:

• rds:ListTagsForResource

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

Update to Costs for Elastic Load Balancers

We recently added indirect cost categorization for the following asset types:

• EC2 - Application Load Balancer Transfer

• EC2 - Network Load Balancer Transfer

• EC2 - Network Load Balancer usage per hour

Costs for these services are represented as their own indirect cost, which can be assigned to Perspective Groups using cost reallocation rules. 

Reminder -- Update to Costs for DynamoDB

We have updated costs for DynamoDB Subscription sign-up charges for better cost tracking and management. Previously, these were combined in the DynamoDB - Unused Reserved Read Capacity and DynamoDB - Unused Reserved Write Capacity indirect charges. They are now distributed into their own indirect charges:

• DynamoDB - Reserved Prepay Read Capacity: This is a new indirect cost representing initial signup charge for DynamoDB provisioned read throughput.

• DynamoDB - Reserved Prepay Write Capacity: This is a new indirect cost representing initial signup charge for DynamoDB provisioned write throughput.

These changes will backfill for the past 13 months of cost history and will let you create reallocation rules for these new costs.