Multi-Cloud Cost History Report – General Availability

We are excited to announce the general availability of the Multi-Cloud Cost History Report! Until now, Multi-Cloud Cost History had USD as the only currency to display multi-cloud cost, but you can now pick a currency of your choice and view all cloud costs in a unified currency. Under ‘Admin Settings,’ a new “Multi-Cloud Report Currency Setting” dropdown will be available with USD as default, and this can be changed to any other currency from the list. Please note that this currency selection is applicable only to the Multi-Cloud Cost History Report and does not convert currency in any other reports on the platform.

As the Multi-Cloud Cost History Report is generated based on data from individual cloud cost history reports, you can view the latest data sync timestamp. The time indicated is the last time this report was refreshed with data for individual clouds.

Please refer to the product documentation for more details.

K8 Cost History Report for FlexOrgs – General Availability

We are excited to announce the general availability of our Kubernetes Cost History Report that is visible at the sub-organization level in FlexOrgs. This report is supported for Kubernetes running on AWS and Azure with the VMware Aria Cost collector agent installed on them. You can access these reports by going to Reports > Containers > Kubernetes Cost History.

1. The Kubernetes Cost History Report helps with the following use cases: Chargeback: FinOps teams can view “cost per X” and report to business leaders at the required granularity. With a single click, costs can be allocated based on container requests or based on actual resource usage, so complete and accurate chargeback of shared costs can be implemented.

2. Showback: FlexOrgs users in sub-organizational units can now access container cost data. With this visibility, engineering teams can see the cost of the individual containers and workloads that they own. Used in conjunction with our Kubernetes rightsizing recommendations, engineers can easily optimize container requests to drive down costs.

3. Extensibility: The Kubernetes Cost History Report is backed by FlexReports and can be accessed via the FlexReports API. This enables businesses to extend K8 cost data to integrate with other business systems, processes, and workflows.

K8 Usage Reports for FlexOrgs – General Availability

We are excited to announce the general availability for two new Kubernetes usage reports that are visible at the sub-organization level in VMware Aria Cost FlexOrgs. These reports will enable us to deliver usage reporting as well as container cost rightsizing recommendations for all FlexOrgs users.

Members of sub-organizations can now view Kubernetes usage in accounts for which they are permitted. You can access these reports by going to Reports > Containers and selecting one of these two new reports:

• Kubernetes Containers Usage

• Kubernetes Nodes Usage

These reports work on AWS, Azure, and GCP as long as the Kubernetes clusters have the VMware Aria Cost agent installed on them. They are backed by FlexReports and can be accessed via the FlexReports API.

Updates to Rightsizing – Amazon Redshift & Amazon DynamoDB Public Beta

We are pleased to announce the public beta of Amazon Redshift and Amazon DynamoDB in our Rightsizing tool!

Amazon Redshift uses SQL to analyze structured and semi-structured data across data warehouses, operational databases, and data lakes, using AWS-designed hardware and machine learning.

Our new Amazon Redshift rightsizing feature generates recommendations to move to a cheaper node type based on your current usage characteristics. Complete with a new user interface, this feature delivers:

• Cost and savings summaries

• Customizable efficiency targets

• Ability to drill down into each recommendation to view usage and see up to 3 alternative options

DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless, key-value NoSQL database designed to run high-performance applications at any scale.

Our new DynamoDB rightsizing feature generates recommendations to correctly provision your tables’ read and write capacities based on your current usage characteristics. It also recommends moving to provisioned tables from on-demand tables if appropriate. Complete with a new user interface, this feature delivers:

• Cost and savings summaries

• Customizable efficiency targets based on RCU and WCU

Data from our rightsizing engine is available via a GraphQL API that enables you to programmatically set efficiency targets and consume recommendations. Learn more about our rightsizing tool here.

GCP Resource Level Cost Support – Public Beta

We are happy to announce the public beta of GCP detailed data export support in FlexReports. This feature will provide GCP customers with granular resource-level cost data for supported services. As new services are added by GCP, VMware Aria Cost will also update our support.

Services available currently from GCP for resource level detail supported by VMware Aria Cost include:

• Compute Engine

• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

• Cloud Functions

• Cloud Run

• Cloud SQL

• Cloud Spanner

• App Engine

• Firestore and Datastore

Within the resource level support filters under “service” users will notice two similar (yet distinct) categories, as detailed below:

• ResourceName - column contains the name provided by the user

• ResourceGlobalName - column contains a unique identifier for the resource

Table details:

• Standard export: gcp_billing_export_v1_<BILLING_ACCOUNT_ID>

• Detailed export: gcp_billing_export_resource_v1_<BILLING_ACCOUNT_ID>

To start using the resource-level cost data, the detail data export must be configured through the GCP console. From there, GCP accounts in VMware Aria Cost must be configured to change from the standard export to the detailed export.

GCP Perspective Support in FlexReports – Public Beta

We are announcing the public beta of GCP Perspective support in FlexReports, enhancing usability for our customers using Perspectives to help manage GCP resources. Perspectives created with assets will now have detailed export support from GCP, and existing Perspectives created using CARLL (Cost Allocation by Resource Level Label) will be available as a new dimension in FlexReports.

Machine Learning Powered Forecasting – Private Beta

We are excited to announce a private beta for enhanced forecasting backed by a suite of machine learning algorithms. This feature, available in AWS, gives you the ability to:

• Forecast costs more accurately with machine learning

• Add user inputs such as expected growth factors

• Incorporate business strategies to better simulate future costs

We’re currently opening this feature to a limited set of private beta customers to complete validation and testing. If you’re interested in participating, please contact your Technical Account Manager to determine eligibility.

GraphQL API Explorer

You can now write, test, and validate GraphQL queries directly in the VMware Aria Cost platform. With this enhancement, users benefit from:

• No tokens needed for general authentication or for switching Organizations

• In-line documentation so you do not need to switch back-and-forth between documentation and console windows


This new page is available out-of-the-box to Admin and Power User roles under Setup > Admin. To add to custom roles, the permission needed is “GraphQL API Explorer."

Collapsible Navigation

We're excited to introduce the ability to collapse the navigation pane, so you can free up more space for pages! Click the double-arrow to collapse and re-click the double-arrow or any of the navigation icons to expand the pane. If you have access to multiple organizations, you can switch your organization view without having to expand and re-collapse the navigation. You can also hover over any icon to see its label in a tooltip.

Update to FlexReports – Template for AWS EC2 Cost & Usage by Processor Type and “Export” Option

We are adding a new AWS FlexReport template that will provide the total cost and usage of AWS EC2 Instances grouped by processor type for the previous month. Additionally, there are columns for instance type family, and whether the product is a current generation instance or not.

In addition to the reports currently supporting the “Export” feature, as stated in the July 13th enhancement, we are now extending support for the "Export" option in FlexReports. Users can now export a copy of their FlexReports in CSV format. 

New Azure Assets

We are introducing three new Azure assets to the platform:

• Azure Machine Learning Private Endpoint Connection

• Azure Machine Learning Compute Resources

• Azure Machine Learning Workspaces

These assets will be usable in perspectives and policies and contain their own asset report. No additional configuration is required for these assets to begin populating.

AWS Test Access – New Region ap-south1 (Mumbai region) Support

AWS support for the new region, ap-south1 (Mumbai) is now supported in the account configuration process. This region is utilized to validate the read-only IAM Access policy for the account, ensuring test access. Customers can choose ap-south1 as the supported region by overriding the current configuration under the Primary AWS Region setting.

Upcoming Change – Hourly Metric Policy Evaluation Time Adjustment

We are making a change in the coming weeks for all hourly AWS and Azure performance policies to better ensure all policies complete within the hour.