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Classic CloudHealth Experience - Partners | Update to Tenant Lifecycle Management

CloudHealth has made an update around how we process tenants that are in an expired trial state to better align with an upcoming feature around tenant lifecycle management. With this change, new partner billing statements and reports will not be generated for tenants in an expired trial state. If you have any questions on how this impacts your reporting or management of customer tenants, please reach out to your account team.

Classic CloudHealth Experience - New AWS and Azure Cost Categorization Changes

We have updated AWS and Azure cost categories in order to break additional costs out from “other” and provide more accurate cost reporting. The following “Other” categories have seen improved categorization changes based on usage type and meter categories. 

AWS

  • Cloudwatch – Other

  • RDS – Other

  • Redshift – Other

  • Cognito – Other

  • Transfer Family – Other

Azure

  • Azure Monitor - Other

  • Azure Arc - Other

  • Container Apps - Other

  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud - Other

  • Github - Other

New CloudHealth Experience - General Availability of New CloudHealth Experience

The CloudHealth team is excited to announce the General Availability of the new CloudHealth experience, a multi-cloud management and FinOps platform, that offers an enhanced and modernized experience for CloudHealth users. This new platform is designed to enable more effective and collaborative cloud strategy and operations across teams, making it easier to achieve positive business outcomes.

To access the new CloudHealth experience, you must first log in to the classic CloudHealth platform. Once logged in, click the SWITCH TO NEW EXPERIENCE button in the top header bar to be redirected to the new CloudHealth experience platform. If you wish to return to the classic platform, you can use the SWITCH TO CLASSIC EXPERIENCE button located in the top header bar of the new experience portal.

More about the capabilities of the new CloudHealth experience can be found here.

CloudHealth Roadmap and Feature Voting

You can now vote on features and submit ideas for feature requests directly in the platform. You can find the roadmap portal from the home page dashboard by clicking on the “Provide Feedback” button on the top right of the screen. You can see the number of votes for each feature, and view things that are in the different phases of development. 

Updates to Asset Reports

Asset Reports have been updated to provide a more interactive experience. You can now query asset metadata using AssetQl and save those queries for easy access. In order to recreate the asset report views that exist on the classic experience, navigate to the inventory page and select the desired asset.

 

What you can do using Assets Explorer

  • Query and visually explore all of your public cloud resources

  • Investigate specific resources and their relationships

  • Identify candidates for deletion based on related assets

  • Identify tagging gaps and distribute them to resource owners

  • Identify orphaned, idle, unattached, or incorrectly sized resources

  • Identify misconfigured resources for corrective action

To access your cloud resources, from the left menu, go to Explore > Assets. More information can be found here.

Custom Dashboard Creation

The new CloudHealth experience supports custom dashboard creation, allowing you to combine multiple FinOps reports and widgets into a single view. Dashboards are currently user-specific and cannot be shared. Any changes made are visible only to the creator. Dashboard sharing will be available in a future release. 

Information on creating dashboards in the new experience can be found here

Smart Summary

Smart Summary feature in the new CloudHealth experience offers a quick overview of cost changes and the reasons behind them between two consecutive completed time periods. It also highlights opportunities for optimization to reduce future expenses.

Using Smart Summary, you can

  • Get a concise summary of what is driving your cloud spend.

  • Understand why your costs change over time.

  • Understand unit costs and what has changed over time.

  • Receive AI-powered suggestions to optimize and reduce your cloud expenses.

To access Smart Summary for AWS services, navigate to Reporting > Smart Summary.

More information on Smart Summary can be found here

Realized Savings

The Realized Savings report in the new CloudHealth experience offers an executive-level overview of your cost savings. It highlights cost optimization and performance efficiency across clouds, accounts, and services. This report enables you to review your historical performance based on the savings achieved by implementing cost optimization recommendations.

Using the Realized Savings report data, you can

  • Review your absolute savings compared to on-demand pricing.

  • Evaluate how effectively you are leveraging purchased discount mechanisms such as Reserved Instances or Savings Plans.

  • Gain insights into coverage levels to determine whether sufficient discounts are in place.

  • Understand how effectively those purchased discounts are being utilized, enabling better-informed decisions for future cost optimization.

  • Review the savings achieved through eliminating wasted resources and downsizing inefficient resources.

More information on Realized Savings can be found here

Optimization Dashboard

The new CloudHealth experience Optimization dashboard offers a centralized view of your monthly savings potential and realized savings. Based on the past 30 days of usage data analysis, the dashboard highlights potential savings through Resource based commitments (e.g. RI) Spend based commitments (e.g. Savings Plan), and rightsizing recommendations. The dashboard guides your cost optimization efforts with a comprehensive view across three key timeframes -

  • Past - Know your savings - Click Previous month’s realized saving to view realized savings trend data and KPIs. For more information, See, Realized Savings.

  • Present - Know your KPIs - Effective Savings Rate, Current Coverage, Expiring and Underutilized resources showcase the current state of your environment.

  • Future - Know your potential monthly savings - Spend based and resource based commitment summary, and the Rightsizing summary provides actionable recommendations to help you optimize your costs in the future.

Additionally, the dashboard displays currently active anomalies, providing opportunities to take remedial action and avoid unnecessary costs.

To access the Optimization dashboard, navigate to Recommendations > Optimization from the left menu.

More information on the optimization Dashboard can be found here

Updates to Custom Report Creation

Custom reports (formally called Flex Reports) have been redesigned to be more streamlined and reduce time to create. All existing FlexReports will be saved and migrated to the new experience automatically and will show up under the custom report section. Creating a custom report is straightforward, a three step process in the new experience. To get started, navigate to CloudHealth > Reports, click New Report dropdown, and select Create using UI or SQL.

More information on custom report creation and report management can be found here

Intelligent Assist

You can use the Intelligent Assist to ask questions about your cloud data in natural language without having to understand complex schemas and column definitions of datasets. Intelligent Assist translates and runs your request as a GraphQL query, and responds to your prompt. It uses a Gen-AI model to determine the most effective representation of your data, such as a bar chart, line chart, detailed table, or informative text, and presents it to you.

To get started, click Ask Intelligent Assist in the top navigation bar. Review guidelines, then either type your own question or select one of the suggested prompts in the chat window.

More information on Intelligent Assist can be found here