Partner Custom Price Books API -- Public Beta

CloudHealth now allows partners to define custom contract rates for AWS billing through our Partner Generated Billing engine. This new feature allows you to modify the billing rates for AWS pricing by increasing the AWS price by a percentage value, decreasing the price by a percentage value, or overwriting the AWS rate. Price Books can serve as a running view of all custom pricing applied to a single customer over time, or you can apply a single price book across multiple customers.

Custom Price Books will help you streamline your AWS billing operations and accurately reflect the cost of your services back to your customers. For more information, please see the CloudHealth API Guide. 

Partner Billing Families -- Coming Early December

CloudHealth’s Partner Billing Engine now supports more flexible definitions of AWS account groupings. The Partner Billing Families functionality now allows multiple combinations of standalone and consolidated accounts to be combined into a single customer tenant. In addition, the Partner Billing Engine can now pass through an entire consolidated bill that is owned by the customer.

This update was built to help our partners handle the more complex billing situations they are entering into with customers today. The goal is to make sure that billing reporting requirements don’t get in the way of you being able to sell services. This feature will be released in early December, after the completion of the November AWS billing cycle. 

Partner CloudFormation Templates

Our team created a new set of CloudFormation Templates on our Help Center to help our partners configure an end-customer's AWS accounts. These templates are designed to help onboard your customers more easily, and decrease the amount of effort required to maintain and update AWS account credentials.

These CloudFormation Templates will create the necessary IAM permissions to give CloudHealth the appropriate access to a user's environment. These templates can be used for the following AWS account types: 

• Payer Accounts (Read Only)

• Linked Accounts (Read Only)

• Linked Accounts (Includes Automation Permissions)

As CloudHealth adds support for new services and requires updates to the IAM access policy, you can update your CloudFormation Template accordingly to stay up-to-date.

Wavefront Integration -- Public Beta

CloudHealth now supports customers using Wavefront for metrics collection. With this new integration, the CloudHealth platform will continue to collect the following performance metrics: CPU, memory, disk usage, and network I/O. When configuring the integration use your Wavefront Account ID and API access key.

CloudHealth collects your Wavefront sources across AWS Instances and Azure 

Virtual Machines and allows you to view those metrics in our asset and metrics reports. More importantly, these metrics will be used to power CloudHealth’s rightsizing engine to determine optimal placement of your workloads onto the correct type of instance or virtual machine. 

If you have any questions, please contact wavefront-integration@cloudhealthtech.com. 

Multicloud Cost History Report -- Private Beta

Multicloud environments are becoming the new normal for many customers, which is why CloudHealth has created the ability to see across clouds in a unifying report. This report takes into account the metadata associated with different services offered by the cloud providers and provides many dimensions to slice the information by: Accounts, Clouds, Time Interval, Geographies and Regions, Services and Service Items, and your business context view using Perspectives. Using this report, you will be able to take into account your business and technical views across your multicloud environment. 

If you would like to participate in this private beta, please contact multicloud-report@cloudhealthtech.com. 

Multidimensional Reporting UI -- Private Beta

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve taken our datasets for AWS around usage, cost, tags, and Perspectives and have created a Multi-Dimensional Report Builder that allows you to create your own analysis against these dimensions for aggregation of usage and cost information at daily, weekly, and monthly granularities. 

If you want to see arbitrary aggregations of your usage, you can now do so by selecting the columns you want to see grouped together, looking at a preview of the information for its correctness, and then exporting all your dimensions into a CSV for analysis. Moreover, the backend is a SQL-like language called CloudHealth Query Language (CHQL) which is powered by our new GraphQL-based API that allows for easy creation of complex reports. 

In the future, we will be adding additional clouds, assets, budgets, and many other datasets for comparison to further enhance customer-driven reporting analytics. 

If you would like to participate in this private beta, please contact multidimensional-report@cloudhealthtech.com 

Action Required — Update Your IAM Policy Permissions

We are in the process of adding new security policy blocks for AWS CloudTrail to our ‘CIS AWS Foundations’ policy. 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:

• cloudtrail:GetEventSelectors

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

Support for Amazon EC2 M5a & R5a Instances

AWS recently announced the latest additions to the EC2 Instance family tree: M5a & R5a instance types. These instance types are supported across the platform including cost and usage reports, RI recommendations, amortization, Perspectives, rightsizing, and policies.

Support for Azure Government Cloud

We recently added support for Azure Government Cloud as part of an Enterprise Agreement (EA). This means that we now support “Azure Global” and “Azure Government Cloud”. Both of these can be configured together in a single CloudHealth tenant and will have the same functionality across cost, rightsizing, reservations, and governance. 

Learn more about Azure Government in this Azure Documentation article.