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Apr201911

Convertible RI Exchanger Automation — General Availability

The Convertible Reserved Instance Exchanger is a tool that helps you recoup savings from underutilized convertible RIs in your AWS infrastructure while limiting additional investment. In the second half of last year, the release of Convertible RI exchange recommendations was a huge success. Today, we are happy to announce the general availability of automation for exchanging Convertible RIs. You are now able to leverage the Convertible RI Exchanger to:

  • Provide exchange recommendations

  • Execute those exchanges

  • Track their progress

  • Report on completed exchanges — all of this in a single workflow!

Review the configuration documentation in our Help Center to get started exchanging your Convertible RIs via CloudHealth today.

New Amortization Reporting for Reservable AWS Services

To provide easier and more complete visibility into amortized costs on AWS, CloudHealth will be consolidating our four separate amortization reports (EC2 RI Amortization, RDS RI Amortization, ElastiCache RN Amortization, and Redshift RN Amortization) into a single report, appropriately named the Amortization Cost Report. This new report will include all six reservable AWS services (EC2, RDS, RedShift, Elasticsearch, ElastiCache, DynamoDB) and provides all-in-one visibility for:

  • Amortized costs

  • Recurring costs from the Cost History Report

  • Cost reallocation rules

  • Billing rules

Learn more about the new AWS Amortization Report in this Help Center article.

Support for Amazon R5ad and M5ad Instances

AWS recently announced the latest addition to the EC2 Instance family tree: R5ad and M5ad instance types. These instance types are now supported across the platform including cost and usage reports, Reserved Instance recommendations, amortization, Perspectives, rightsizing, and policies.

New Azure Onboarding & Account API

Automation is key when setting up accounts in CloudHealth, which is why we are excited to announce that our Azure partners, channel customers, and direct customers can now set up their account Service Principals via the CloudHealth API.

To learn more about how to use the API, please view our API Documentation.

Update to Azure Health Check

We have added an Immediate Monthly Savings Section to the Azure Health Check Pulse Report which includes the number of unattached managed disks in your environment. You can also see the total value of your unattached managed disks to understand your potential savings.

Support for New Data Center Assets

The Data Center Module now supports new assets for VMware accounts, namely Data Center, Cluster, and Host, in a hierarchical structure. This is to organize assets in the same way they would be in vCenter, making it more consistent with your expectations. A VMware Account (or vCenter account) can have multiple data centers, with multiple clusters, multiple hosts, and multiple virtual machines running on each host.

New Policy Conditions Added

We have added four new policy conditions to help you manage both your AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. You can now create policies to be alerted when a new AWS Account, GCP Project, or Azure Reservation Order has been derived in CloudHealth. You can also be alerted if an S3 bucket is created in a specific region.