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Support for Amazon EKS

We now support Amazon EKS as an additional flavor of Kubernetes. Installing the CloudHealth Kubernetes Collector into a cluster will allow you to take advantage of our container cost and usage tracking like you would for any other Kubernetes environment.

June 21, 2018

Support for Additional AWS Services

We recently added cost reporting support for the following AWS services:

  • AWS Neptune

  • AWS IoT 1-Click

  • AWS Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes 

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 are in the process of adding new security policy blocks for 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:

  • kms:DescribeKey

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

New Google Compute Engine Cost Report

June 21, 2018

We are introducing a new report focused specifically on Google Compute Engine costs. This report gives you granular details on how much you are spending when it comes to compute costs, and lets you drill down on several specific categories. Examples of categories that you can drill down on include: Project, machine profiles, machines types, product categories, or by Perspectives. To learn more click on the help center link here. 

Support for Amazon EC2 m5d Instances

Amazon recently announced the latest addition to the EC2 instance family tree: m5d instance types. Support for m5d is across the platform including cost and usage reports, RI recommendations, amortization, Perspectives, rightsizing, and policies.

Reminder -- Cost Allocation by DBR Tags Coming Soon

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.