Updates to Amazon EC2 Rightsizing

As previously announced, the CloudHealth Amazon EC2 Rightsizing engine has a new set of behaviors which will enable you to more granularly see recommendations for your EC2 instances. We have improved our recommendations in the following ways:

We consider the usage of the system first, then we apply pricing vehicles to the recommendation based on your purchased reservations or custom pricing with AWS.
We now will incorporate all machines which have run for at least 48 hours in the current month for rightsizing which allows you to get recommendations more quickly.

In support of this new behavior there are some new columns in the Rightsizing Report:

Current Price: shows the list price of the source instance
Recommended Price: shows the list price of the recommended instance type

These columns enable you to get a fair comparison of cost of the machines based on AWS’ On-Demand pricing. If your business has negotiated pricing, this will not be reflected in those columns, but the recommendations do take that into account.

Learn more about Amazon EC2 Rightsizing in this Help Center article.

Update to Amazon S3 Reporting — Coming Soon

Over the next few days, we will add support for Amazon S3 Intelligent Tier in the CloudHealth Amazon S3 Cost and Usage Reports. Costs associated with the Amazon S3 Intelligent Tier will be distributed into the following direct charges:

S3 - Intelligent Tier
S3 - Intelligent Tier Infrequent Access
S3 - Intelligent Tier Monitoring and Automation

Currently, these costs are accounted for as an indirect charge, AWS S3. This change will be applicable to cost allocation for the past 13 months. We recommend that you update your reallocation rules for the AWS S3 indirect charge and save your cost and usage reports for reference.

Update to Azure Default Dashboard

We recently added any and all Azure Marketplace spend incurred by our customers to the totals in the Azure Default Dashboard. This includes the current and last month charges.

Update to Data Center Costs

We now provide the ability to add additional costs in the CloudHealth Data Center module. These are costs that are not covered by the existing cost drivers (license, facilities, maintenance, network, server hardware, storage, and labor) and can be manually added to better reflect the actual cost of your data center infrastructure.

These costs can be added via Setup > Admin > Benchmark Pricing and can be applied at the Host or vCenter level. Learn more about Benchmark Pricing in this Help Center article.

New GCP Region Supported — asia-northeast2

The CloudHealth platform can now report on GCP assets deployed in the asia-northeast2 (Osaka, Japan) region.