FlexReports - General Availability

We’re excited to announce the general availability of CloudHealth FlexReports (starting with support for AWS), which enable you to perform more granular analysis by building a single report across AWS cost, usage, and asset data. FlexReports aim to help users answer specific inquiries to align to their business needs and drive confident decision making. Additionally, you can leverage an extensible API to feed your critical business systems with near-real time data. The API also allows you to run SQL-like queries against your AWS billing data with a simple CSV output. This new reporting experience empowers stakeholders within your Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) to do granular analysis to understand cost drivers at both the asset and tag level. CloudHealth FlexReports give you greater control with reporting that is fully custom in nature and improves collaboration across teams.

Capabilities added for general availability include:

Contextual filters: The filters that load will be the most relevant to the selected dimensions, with the ability to switch to a comprehensive list of filters if needed. We also have an ability to select 'AND/OR' operators between filter values
Report Query: Use cases such as 'Top n' values can be quickly previewed using the 'order by' clause applied on specific columns
GraphQL API: There is flexibility to 'Exclude current month' from time interval selected and 'Lag' function to get delta cost of month over month for resources is supported
Preview: Output results of a query can be previewed with infinite vertical scroll without the need to navigate to multiple pages
Historical data: You will have 13 months of historical data available to query from AWS CUR

We’re starting with the AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) and will be adding support for FlexOrgs, new data sets, Perspectives, scheduling and other usability enrichments to create a comprehensive reporting solution over time. Learn more about CloudHealth FlexReports in this Help Center article and API documentation.

Oracle Cloud - Public Beta

We’re pleased to announce the public beta of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) support. CloudHealth provides visibility into OCI cost and usage so you can view all your public cloud costs, including OCI, in a single platform. You can view OCI cost data for both PAYG and Monthly Flex plans, using Perspectives to align cost and usage by business unit for showback.

Features available in the public beta include:

Dashboard: Cost and usage overview with historical cost segregated by service categories
Cost History Report: Ability to slice-and-dice cost across Oracle Cloud services, compartments, and Perspectives with cost drill down showing resource level cost details
Compute Usage Report: Visibility into usage hours for compute shape resources
Multi-cloud Cost Report: OCI is now included in this report so you have a single point of reference across clouds
Perspectives: Ability to create dynamic business groups based on resource tags, compartments, derived assets, regions, and VMs
Assets: Visibility into OCI compartments, a comprehensive list of assets (as derived from billing data), and deeper, API-driven reporting on Oracle Virtual Machines
Budget: Flexibility to enter and track your budget with insights into the deltas between planned and actual spend using the Budget vs Actual Report

Learn more about the CloudHealth Oracle Cloud solution in this Help Center article.

Support for Application Load Balancers

We have recently added API-based collection and reporting for Application Load Balancers. This asset type is now available across the platform including Activity Feed, Perspectives and policies. Until now, Application Load Balancers and associated tags were derived from your account’s Cost and Usage Report. This upgrade enables CloudHealth to report additional data which is not available in Cost and Usage Reports.

We have not updated the cost distribution for this asset type. The costs associated with Application Load Balancers will remain distributed into the following direct service items:

EC2 - Application Load Balancer Transfer
EC2 - Application Load Balancer Usage

Support for Additional Amazon EC2 Instances

AWS recently announced the latest updates to the EC2 Instance family tree: m6gd, c6gd, and r6gd in various sizes. These new sizes and instances are now supported across the platform including cost and usage reports, amortization, Savings Plans and Reserved Instance recommendations, Perspectives, rightsizing, and policies.

Update to Amazon S3 Reporting

We have updated costs for Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive. Previously, these costs were included in the indirect cost item called ‘AWS S3’. Going forward, costs associated with S3 Glacier Deep Archive will be distributed into the following direct charges:

S3 - Glacier Deep Archive Overhead
S3 - Glacier Deep Archive

This change will be applicable to cost allocation for the past 13 months and will help you analyze your spend towards S3 Glacier Deep Archive. We recommend that you update your reallocation rules for ‘AWS S3’ indirect charge. We have also added support for S3 Glacier Deep Archive in the S3 Cost Report. Learn more about supported AWS services in this Help Center article.

Update to Amazon EC2 Credit Reporting

We have updated the reporting of costs for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) burstable instance credits. Previously, these costs were included in the indirect cost item called ‘EC2 Usage’. Going forward, costs associated with EC2 burstable instance credits will be distributed into the following direct charge:

EC2 - CPU Credits

This change will be applicable to cost allocation for the past 13 months and will help you analyze the trends of expenses related to additional burstable CPU credits. We recommend that you update your reallocation rules for the ‘EC2 Usage’ indirect charge. Learn more about supported AWS services in this Help Center article.

Azure Tag Support for Azure Subscriptions

We have added tag support for Azure Subscriptions, you can see this reflected in the CloudHealth platform under Assets > By Service > Azure > General > Subscriptions. These tags can be used to allocate related assets and charges into Perspective groups, and run configuration policies based on tagging.

Azure Support for Non-VM Reservations

For direct customers: We have updated a categorization option in the Cost History Report to break out VM and Non-VM reservation charges. When viewing this report by Service Category, you will now see these broken out.

For channel partners and customers: We have added support for including Non-VM reservation charges in the Cost History Report. When going to the Cost History Report, you’ll now see “Non-VM Reservation Orders” as a new category. Keep in mind, these charges will not yet show up in the PDF or CSV invoices, support for this is being added in the coming days.