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Data Center Migration Assessment Enhancements

We now support Microsoft Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances and Google Cloud Platform Committed Use Discounts in the CloudHealth Data Center Migration Assessment. You can confidently plan your migration for Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform while optimizing costs.

October 11, 2018 and September 27, 2018

Update to Costs of Amazon CloudWatch Alarms

We have updated the costs for Amazon CloudWatch Alarms. Earlier, Amazon CloudWatch Alarms were included in the Amazon CloudWatch indirect cost. Going forward, costs associated with Amazon CloudWatch Alarms will be distributed into the following indirect charges:

  • CloudWatch - Alarms

  • CloudWatch - Other

We recommend that you update your reallocation rules for any Amazon CloudWatch indirect charges.

Support for Additional AWS Services

Amazon Cloud Directory, Amazon Cognito, AWS Direct Connect, and Amazon Glacier costs were recently updated to be distributed into the following direct charges:

  • Cloud Directory

  • Cognito

  • Direct Connect - Port Hours

  • Direct Connect - Data Transfer

  • Glacier - Request

  • Glacier - Storage

  • Glacier - Transfer

And the following indirect charges:

  • Cloud Directory - Other

  • Cognito - Other

  • Direct Connect - Other

  • Glacier - Retrieval

  • Glacier - Transfer

  • Glacier - Other

Also, for the AWS services mentioned above, we now use the tags and resource ID from your Detailed Billing Report (DBR) to automatically allocate costs and assets to the appropriate Perspective groups. This allocation is applicable to the past 13 months as well.

Cost Allocation by DBR Tags for Additional AWS Services — Coming Soon

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 soon be using the tags and resource ID from your Detailed Billing Report (DBR) to automatically allocate following costs and assets to the appropriate Perspective groups:

  • AWS CloudHSM 

  • Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator

  • Amazon Kinesis Video Streams

  • Amazon CloudSearch

  • Amazon Route 53 Health Check. 

This allocation will be applicable to the past 13 months as well. We recommend that you save your cost and usage reports for reference. If you haven’t already, please enable all the tags in your DBR that you use for Perspectives.

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