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Dec201905

Support for AWS Savings Plan Reallocation in Partner Generated Billing

CloudHealth now supports the reallocation of AWS Savings Plan discounts in the Partner Generated Billing engine. Similar to how Reservation Allocation works today, we now represent Savings Plan discount rates for customers who make a Savings Plan commitment within their accounts. CloudHealth also removes Savings Plan discounts from other customers under the consolidated bill who did not make a Savings Plan purchase.

This update does not require any configuration changes in your customer environments. Please reach out to your technical account manager or the support team for more details.

Support for Azure CSP in VM RI Optimizer

We’re pleased to announce support for Azure Reserved Virtual Machine (VM) Instances for Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs) in the CloudHealth VM RI Optimizer. Only partner customer tenants can run the VM RI Optimizer for CSP subscriptions because CSP subscription reservations cannot be shared among a partner’s customers.

Learn more about the CloudHealth VM RI Optimizer in this Help Center article.

Update to AWS Savings Plans Support — Now Available

AWS Savings Plans Support for the EC2 Instance Cost & Usage Report

The EC2 Instance Cost & Usage Reports now fully support AWS Savings Plans and include a new measure called “Coverage Type” that breaks down your EC2 cost or usage by:

  • EC2 Savings Plan

  • Compute Savings Plan

  • Standard RI

  • Convertible RI

  • On-Demand

  • Spot

The existing “Reservation Type” measure now also includes AWS Savings Plans coverage in addition to Reserved Instance coverage (e.g. All Upfront will show All Upfront RIs and Savings Plans coverage). This unlocks new views such as Coverage Type by Instance Family, filtering existing reports by coverage type, and more.

AWS Savings Plans Asset Report

CloudHealth now supports categorization, tagging, and inventory support for AWS Savings Plans. CloudHealth will collect asset inventory data for Savings Plans every 15 minutes. Type, state and other details will be available in the Savings Plans Asset Report.

Reminder — Action Required: We require you to update your IAM policy for this service. Please add the following lines to your IAM policy:

  • savingsplans:DescribeSavingsPlans

For more details on how to do this, please visit our Help Center.

Updates to Budget Configuration and All-New User Experience — Now Available

Budgets define your expected cloud spend on a month-by-month basis. They also allow you to visualize your expected costs for the year in advance and compare with actual spend as the year progresses. We are pleased to announce an upcoming all-new user experience for budget configuration across clouds, with several highly requested enhancements including:

  • Multiple budgets: Create as many overall and categorized budgets you need to run your business

  • Simple import/export of budget data: Import your budget data via .CSV for configuring budgets at scale

  • Non-calendar fiscal year support: Align your budgets with your fiscal year

  • Option to include Amortized Cost in Actual Cost: Substitute your RI Prepays with amortized cost

Learn more about the updates to budgets in this Help Center article.

Update to Benchmark Pricing — Overrides at vSphere Data Center Level

You now have the flexibility to override default cost driver values at a ‘data center’ level. For example, if your facility cost for all the SDDC data centers is similar except for data center ‘Boston’, then you can edit values for this data center distinctively, without impacting values for other data centers.

The following cost drivers are now capable of consuming data center specific overrides: Storage, License, Maintenance, Labor, Network, and Facilities. The default reference value for all data centers will be mentioned as ‘Organization Default’, to edit a specific data center value, select the data center (e.g. ‘Boston’) from dropdown and override the cost drivers values as needed.