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Convertible Reserved Instance Exchanger -- General Availability

We are excited to announce the general availability of the CloudHealth EC2 Convertible Reserved Instance (RI) Exchanger. The Convertible RI Exchanger is a recommendation engine that helps you recoup savings from underutilized Convertible RIs in your AWS environment, while controlling the additional investment to perform an exchange.

The Convertible RI Exchanger performs the following actions:

  • Identifies underutilized Convertible Reserved Instances

  • Identifies On-Demand usage candidates

  • Selects the most efficient candidates

  • Builds you a quote that you can use to perform exchanges through the AWS console

In other words, the Convertible RI Exchanger enables you to increase the utilization and effectiveness of your CRI inventory while maximizing the ROI from an exchange. 

Learn more about the CloudHealth EC2 Convertible RI Exchanger in this Help Center article or check it out for yourself by navigating to Recommendations > Reservations > EC2 CRI Exchanger.

August 2, 2018

Azure SQL Database Rightsizing -- General Availability

We are excited to announce the general availability of CloudHealth Azure SQL Database Rightsizing. To recap our public beta announcement, the SQL Database Rightsizing Report provides you with an Efficiency Score based on DTU or Storage utilization thresholds, and indicates which databases are underutilized, a good fit, or over target, based on either the system default targets or your own custom targets. 

In addition to the SQL Database Rightsizing Report, we are happy to announce that the following associated SQL Database Reports are also generally available, including:

  • SQL Database Cost Report

  • SQL Database Usage Report

  • SQL Database Performance Report

  • SQL Databases Asset Report

Learn more about the SQL Database Rightsizing algorithm in this Help Center article.

August 2, 2018

Container Cost Allocation Now Available in Azure

For Azure customers who use containers, we are pleased to announce that Container Reports are now available in Azure! You can view reports on Mesos Resources, Mesos Allocation, Kubernetes Resources, Kubernetes Allocation, and Cost History within the CloudHealth platform for Azure. 

Learn more about analyzing container costs in this Help Center article. 

August 2, 2018

GCP Current Cost Report

We now have a Current Cost Report available in GCP! You can use this report to get visibility of your costs across all of your projects for the current month. You can apply the same level of filtering and categorization to this report as you can with the Cost History Report.

August 2, 2018

New GCP Region Supported - us-west2

The CloudHealth platform can now report on GCP assets deployed in the us-west2 (Los Angeles, California) region.

Support for Additional AWS Service

We recently added cost reporting support for the Amazon Connect. Cost for this service is represented as its own indirect cost, which can be assigned to Perspective Groups using cost reallocation rules. Previously, this cost was included under Indirect Costs - Other.

Action Required — Update Your IAM Policy Permissions

We are in the process of adding inventory collection for Amazon CloudWatch Log Groups and Alarms. 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:

  • logs:DescribeLogGroups

  • cloudwatch:DescribeAlarmsForMetric

  • cloudwatch:GetMetricData

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