Azure Health Check -- General Availability

We’re pleased to announce that the CloudHealth Azure Health Check Pulse Report is now generally available. This report provides an executive assessment that highlights potential optimizations that you can take to reduce cost and improve governance. Key components include cloud governance, operational monthly savings, reservation management monthly savings, cost burndown, and notices. 

Learn more about the Azure Health Check Report in this Help Center article. 

Feedback Requested -- CloudHealth - Slack Integration

To help ensure the CloudHealth - Slack Integration meets your needs, we’ve created a brief survey to collect your feedback. 

Take the survey.

Update to Budget vs Actual Report

We recently updated the available filters for the Budget vs Actual Report across the CloudHealth AWS, Azure, and Google platforms. The filters have been updated to give you the option to view budgets by custom data intervals. Additionally, you can now view and filter your budget by Perspective group. Lastly, you have the option to turn variance on and off. 

Update to Costs for Amazon SageMaker Notebook Instances

We have updated the costs for SageMaker services. Currently, Amazon SageMaker Notebook Instances are included in the SageMaker - Other indirect cost. Going forward, costs associated with SageMaker Notebook Instances will be distributed into the following direct charges:

• SageMaker - Notebook Instance Compute

• SageMaker - Notebook Instance GP2 Storage

We recommend that you update your reallocation rules for any Amazon SageMaker - Other indirect charges.

Support for Additional AWS Services 

We recently added support for the following services:

• Amazon Transcribe 

• Amazon Translate

• AWS Certificate Manager 

• AWS Elemental MediaTailor 

• AWS Secrets Manager

Costs for these services are represented as their own indirect cost, which can be assigned to Perspective Groups using cost reallocation rules. Previously, these costs were included under Indirect Costs - Other.

Action Required — Update Your IAM Policy Permissions

We will be adding support for collecting and inventorying of AWS Database Migration Service (DMS): Replication Instances. 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:dms:Describe*

dms:List*

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

Update to Data Center Migration Assessment 

While doing a migration assessment you now have the ability to exclude Azure Basic Virtual Machines (VMs). These are Test/Dev VMs which are generally not used in production. By default, we will no longer recommend Basic VMs. However, customers have a choice to select Basic VMs if they would like through the selection buttons.

Coming Soon -- CloudHealth Academy Gets a Facelift

In the near future, we are releasing an upgrade to the CloudHealth Academy that will provide a single location to access training information and content, such as self-paced videos, registration for webinars, training recommendations, and the ability to track which training you have completed. The CloudHealth Academy will be available once you are logged into the CloudHealth platform (see below), via the Help Center or the Help Menu. We welcome your feedback on this new resource.