Partner Generated Billing Support for Google Cloud Platform - General Availability

We're very excited to announce the general availability of support for Partner Generated Billing (PGB) for Google Cloud Platform. With this expanded support, partners will be able to configure their master billing account in their partner tenant and assign corresponding billing accounts to their customer tenants.

With this feature, partners will have a single pane to view all their AWS, Azure, and GCP customers along with their costs for corresponding cloud usage. Partner generated billing further enables partners to generate monthly invoices for each of their customers with the inclusion of billing rules to markup or markdown costs for services which their customers are consuming. This functionality is driven and powered by CloudHealth’s GraphQL APIs.

More information about Partner Generated Billing for Google Cloud Platform can be found in this Help Center article.

VMware Cloud on AWS - Public Beta

We’re pleased to announce the public beta of VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS support. CloudHealth provides visibility into VMC on AWS cost and usage so you can view all your public and hybrid cloud costs in a single platform.

Features available in the public beta include:

Dashboard: Cost, usage, and inventory overview with historical cost segregated by service categories
Cost History Report: Ability to slice-and-dice costs across VMC on AWS services, CSP organizations, and regions.
Current & Previous Billing Period Reports: To provide visibility into spend during billing periods, which might differ from calendar month periods
Usage Reports: Compute, Elastic IP, and Data Transfer Usage History Reports with the ability to slice-and-dice service usage across CSP organizations, regions, services, and offer type
Multi-cloud Cost Report: VMC on AWS is now included in this report so you have a single point of reference across clouds
Assets: Visibility into VMC on AWS stack and comprehensive list of assets (from SDDC to virtual machines)

Important Notes:

This is supported for customers who have purchased VMC on AWS directly from VMware.
This support is provided by a bi-directional integration between vRealize Operations and CloudHealth.
Perspective support is not available as part of the public beta.

Learn more about CloudHealth’s support for VMC on AWS in this Help Center article.

FlexReports Visualization - Public Beta

We’re announcing the public beta of FlexReports visualization. FlexReports visualization adds the ability to create a chart table view or a table-only view in addition to the existing FlexReports capability, now allowing users to create meaningful visualization charts without the need to export a CSV file.

With visualization, users can change the chart types, x/y category fields, filters, sorting, and drill down to granular data. We have also updated all the templates in our library with visualization. FlexReports visualization enhances the user’s ability to interpret data, introduces the ability to perform trend analysis to see how cost and usage varies over a period, and the ability to view data in near-real-time.

Learn more about CloudHealth FlexReports Visualization in this Help Center article.

FlexOrgs Management GraphQL APIs - Public Beta

We’re introducing a new set of GraphQL APIs to enable management of FlexOrgs and organization account assignment. This will eventually replace the current organizations V2 REST API, which will make for a more consistent experience with the rest of the organization, user, and role management GraphQL APIs.

Today, we have two new queries available in beta:

The ‘organizations’ query allows you to get organization details, including assigned accounts (AWS, Azure, GCP, and DataCenter).
The ‘availableAccountsForSubOrg’ query allows you to get the list of accounts available to assign to an organization.

We’ve also updated the ‘userOrganizations’ query to include accounts assigned to those organizations.

Stay tuned for additional enhancements over the next several weeks.