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 Azure SQL Database Rightsizing -- Private Beta

We’re excited to announce the private beta of CloudHealth Azure SQL Database Rightsizing, effective May 31st! The SQL Database Rightsizing Report has a new UI compared with the Virtual Machine Rightsizing Reports. The UI is designed in a way to easily rightsize your databases as well as view what’s underutilized, a good fit, or over target. You’ll be able to set an efficiency target using the metrics DTU and Storage. CloudHealth provides a system target ‘DTU Optimized’ that is selected by default, but you can also choose to create your own custom efficiency target. The report will provide you an efficiency score which is the total percentage of assets that are a good fit. You can increase your score by rightsizing assets that are outside of the efficiency target. Additionally, you will see your current total monthly cost, projected efficiency score, projected monthly cost, and projected savings. Lastly, the SQL Database Rightsizing Report will provide up to 3 recommendation options. The lowest cost option that fits within your efficiency target will be marked as your ‘Best Fit.’

If you would like to participate in this private beta, please contact SQLDBbeta@cloudhealthtech.com.

May 24, 2018

Coming Soon -- Cost Allocation by DBR Tags

We are working on a new approach to allocating costs for your taggable AWS services that are currently marked as Indirect Costs in the CloudHealth Platform. This will enable us to rapidly add support for new assets once they are introduced and become taggable. We will be using the tags and resource ID in your Detailed Billing Report (DBR) to automatically allocate costs for these services to the appropriate Perspective groups. Please enable all the tags in your DBR that you use for Perspectives.

  • Amazon AppStream

  • Amazon Cloud Directory

  • Amazon CloudSearch

  • Amazon CloudWatch

  • Amazon Cognito

  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (ELB v2)

  • Amazon Glacier

  • Amazon Kinesis Video Streams

  • Amazon Machine Learning

  • Amazon Route 53 (Health Check)

  • Amazon SageMaker (Training Job)

  • Amazon Simple Queue Service

  • AWS Direct Connect

  • AWS Key Management Service

  • AWS CodeBuild

Learn more about activating user-defined cost allocation tags in this AWS Documentation article.

Support for Additional AWS Services

We recently added support for the following AWS services:

  • Amazon Alexa Top Sites 

  • Amazon CloudWatch Events

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.

Support for Amazon EC2 C5d Instances

Amazon recently announced the latest addition to the EC2 instance family tree: C5d instance types. Support for C5d is across the platform including cost and usage reports, RI recommendations, amortization, Perspectives, rightsizing, and policies.

May 24, 2018

Action Required -- Update Your IAM Policy Permissions

We are in the process of adding new security policy blocks for S3 and KMS to our ‘AWS Best Practice Security’ policy. 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:

  • s3:Get*

  • kms:Get*

  • kms:List*

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

GCP Cost Summary Pulse Report

We now have a Google Cloud Cost Summary Pulse Report which provides an executive-level assessment of the cost of your GCP infrastructure. CloudHealth aggregates all cost information from accounts, services, and assets across your cloud infrastructure to provide a comprehensive cost summary in this report. Learn more in this Help Center article.

May 24, 2018

Join us for CloudHealth Connect18!

Registration for our inaugural CloudHealth Connect18 User Summit is officially open! Join your peers for two days dedicated to connecting you with the solutions, tools, and experts that can make a lasting impact on your business needs. This summit is designed to incorporate the perfect mix of training and sessions led by pioneers and experts in the cloud computing industry. Learn more.