Azure Normalized Reservation Measures and Reporting Dimensions — Coming Soon

To simplify Azure Reserved VM Instance reporting, we will be adding three new measures to the Virtual Machine Cost, Virtual Machine Usage, and Virtual Machine RI Utilization Reports. These measures include:

• Normalized VMs will take the Virtual Machine count and normalize the count to the NFU ratio across every machine size.

• Normalized Reservations will take the Reservation type and size and convert to the NFU ratio in reports.

• Normalized Reservation Surplus will provide information on Normalized reservations less normalized usage. When Normalized Reservation Surplus is positive, that indicates potential wasted reservations. If the Normalized Reservation Surplus is negative, there may be opportunities to purchase more reservations.

• Normalized Underutilized Reservations will provide details on the number of Normalized Reservations, less the Normalized Utilized Reservations. A positive number for this measure indicates Underutilized Reservations, whereas a value of 0 indicates that you are using all the reservations for the conditions defined in the report. Occasionally, Microsoft will give a reservation extra hours in a day if they mis-reported usage for a previous day, this will cause a negative value to appear in some cases.

Additionally, a new dimension will be made available as a Category to further enhance these reports. The Normalized Machine Series category will take the machine size of the reservation purchased (e.g. D4s_V3) and convert it to the smallest size within that machine flex series (e.g. D2s_v3). This will provide a better understanding of how Microsoft Azure is applying those reservations across the relevant usage.

Update to Data Center Benchmark Pricing — Coming Soon

In May, we introduced support for Benchmark Pricing in the CloudHealth Data Center Module. You are able to opt-in to the Benchmark Pricing feature by going to Setup > Admin > Pricing. Benchmark Pricing allows you to benefit from industry standard pricing for server hardware in your data center and derived costs, known as Cost Drivers, such as License, Facilities, Maintenance, Network, Storage and Labor. This is incredibly useful to standardize and compare costs.

However, many customers get special discounts on their server hardware or may want to change the pricing of the derived Cost Drivers. You can now override the cost of server hardware on individual items or on a batch of servers that have the same hardware as well as changing the individual Cost Drivers.

Learn more about Benchmark Pricing in this Help Center article.

New AWS Region Supported — eu-north-1

The CloudHealth platform can now report on AWS assets deployed in the eu-north-1 (Stockholm) region.

GCP Cost History Invoice Report using BigQuery

We have released a new Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Cost History Invoice Report leveraging the BigQuery billing export. This report can be used for monthly chargebacks as the totals on this report will tie with the invoice amount from Google. To use this report, you’ll need to update your Billing Account configuration in CloudHealth to include your BigQuery dataset information. Depending on your configuration, you may also need to grant additional permissions to your service account.

For details on updating this configuration, please view this Help Center article.