Custom Currency Conversion Support in Partner Generated Billing Statements

We’ve added the capability for partners to define a custom currency conversion rate for AWS bills in our Partner Generated Billing statements. Partners can now set a custom rate to help facilitate end-of-month billing operations. In addition, partners can now choose to set a global currency conversion rate from a central location to be used across multiple customers.

Learn more about custom currency rates in this Help Center article.

Cost Allocation by Bill 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 bill to automatically allocate AWS CodeBuild, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Directory Service, Amazon Machine Learning, and ELB v2 costs and assets to the appropriate Perspective groups. 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 bill that you use for Perspectives.

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

Support for Additional AWS Services

AWS CloudHSM, Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator, Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, Amazon CloudSearch, and Amazon Route 53 Health Check costs were recently updated to be distributed into the following direct charges:

• CloudHSM

• DynamoDB Accelerator - Node Hour

• Kinesis Video Stream

• CloudSearch - Instance

• CloudSearch - Document Batch Upload

• CloudSearch - Index Document

• CloudSearch - Data Transfer

• Route 53 - Health Check

And the following indirect charges:

• CloudHSM - Other

• DynamoDB Accelerator - Other

• Kinesis Video Stream - Other

• CloudSearch - Other

• Route 53 - Traffic Flow

• Route 53 - Other

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

Learn more about supported AWS services in this Help Center article.

Support for Size Flexible Azure Reserved VM Instances

We’re pleased to announce that we now support size flexible Azure Reserved Virtual Machine (VM) Instances in the following CloudHealth reports and tools:

• VM RI Optimizer

• VM RI Amortization Report

• VM Usage Report

• VM RI Utilization Report

• VM Underutilized RIs Report

• VM Hours Report

• Health Check Pulse Report

If you have size flexible reservations, they are now accurately accounted for in all of the above reports and tools. 

To better equip you to leverage size flexibility, we have added a configuration checkbox which is always enabled for all shared scope reservations. For single scope reservations, this checkbox is enabled by default, but it can be disabled based on your preferences.

New Azure Regions Supported

The CloudHealth platform can now report on Azure assets deployed in the following regions: 

• US Sec East

• US Sec West

• UAE Central

• UAE North

• Switzerland North

• Switzerland West

• Norway East

• Norway West

Updates to Data Center Migration Assessment 

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.

Subscription Delivery Status Column 

A “Delivery Status” column will be added to subscriptions over the next 24 hours. This will allow you to see the current status of the subscription. In case of an ‘Error’ or ‘Warning’, a detailed message will be displayed for diagnosis.