Invoice ID Report

To help provide tracking in the invoicing process, CloudHealth has added an Invoice ID Report for AWS bills generated through Partner Generated Billing. This report helps finance and accounting understand when an account payable to AWS has not been fully configured through the CloudHealth Partner Generated Billing engine. The goal of this report is to streamline your end-of-month invoicing and billing reconciliation process. 

Support for Amazon EC2  r5, r5d, and z1d families

AWS recently announced the latest additions to the Amazon EC2 Instance family tree: r5, r5d, and z1d instance types. Support for for these new instance types goes across the platform including Partner Generated Billing, cost and usage reports, RI recommendations, amortization, Perspectives, rightsizing, and policies.

Amazon RDS Derived Instances

CloudHealth has always had the ability to derive current and historical Amazon EC2 Instances from your Detailed Billing Report (DBR), even if the AWS collection API did not return information about those instances. This can happen because of missing account credentials, connectivity issues, or for other reasons.

Now, we have enhanced this ability to derive RDS instance attributes too. In the near future, we will optimize the distribution of your RDS costs and assets into Perspective groups for the past 12 months as well. We recommend that you save your cost and usage reports for reference.

Cost Allocation by DBR Tags for AWS Data Pipeline 

As previously announced, we are developing a more comprehensive approach for extracting asset attributes from bills to allocate costs for taggable AWS services. 

We will now be using the tags and resource ID from your Detailed Billing Report (DBR) to automatically allocate AWS Data Pipeline costs and assets to the appropriate Perspective groups. This allocation will be applicable to the past 12 months as well. We recommend that you save your cost and usage reports for reference. We will be using the DBR to allocate costs and assets for additional AWS services in the coming sprints. 

Learn more about activating user-defined cost allocation tags in this AWS Documentation article.

Update to AWS KMS Asset Report

The Key Management Service (KMS) Customer Master Keys Asset Report now displays the expiration of your encryption keys via a new column called ‘Expiration Date’. This column will be accessible through the ‘Edit columns’ button and will help you quickly see which encryption keys expire and when. This will help you in identifying the time at which the imported key material expires. If the key material doesn’t expire, this column will remain blank. When the key material expires, AWS KMS deletes the key material and the Customer Master Key will become unusable.

Expansion of CloudHealth Academy Training Videos

We have expanded our video and course offerings to include: 10+ GCP videos (also instructor-led sessions for Platform Overview and Cost & Usage now address GCP), new videos on Azure SQL Database Rightsizing, Budget vs. Actual, Entering Budgets, and Amazon EC2 RI Amortization. Check them out in CloudHealth Academy.

Action Required -- Update Your IAM Policy Permissions

We are in the process of adding inventory collection for Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Topics. 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:

• sns:ListTopics

• sns:GetTopicAttributes

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

Update to InterActive Reports -- Coming Soon

Today, by default, the charts in CloudHealth InterActive Reports display data chronologically from left-to-right, and the default display for the tabular data is from right-to-left. As of August 27th, tabular reports will display data chronologically from left-to-right by default, with the most recent data on the right to match the format of the charts.

Previously, users were able to update the sorting order of the table. With the InterActive Report enhancement, the sorting order of the table will no longer be able to be changed via the toggle button. Additionally, the left-to-right data will be reflected in saved reports, CSVs, as well as subscriptions.