CMx UPDATES

Custom cost dashboards are now available

We now support and allow you to create custom Cost dashboards on the Home page—enabling you to highlight trends in cost data by creating new charts, drill in on spend within selected service categories, and more.

Set a custom landing page for all users

On the Customization page, admins can now define what page or report users will see when they first log in to the application.

API UPDATES

New AWS and Azure API call: billing/add_tag_mapping

Created this new API call, so that you can add custom tag mappings to your cost reporting.

New Azure API call: inventory/get_resources_azure_load_balancer_details

Created this new API call to enable customers to retrieve results from the Azure List of Load Balancers report.

New Azure API call: billing/get_cost_saving_azure

Created this new API call to enable customers to retrieve results from the Azure Cost Savings report.

AWS UPDATES

Improved CloudTrail alert ignore workflow

We have made several usability improvements to the ignoring results from the AWS CloudTrail security alerts. Our Help text now includes an explanation on how to ignore multiple users, leverage wildcards, and add alerts that use the Contain element versus All. You can also add multiple ignore rows for both request parameters and response elements. These improvements should make it easier for you to ensure that you’re the only one getting alerts on the events which are more important to you.

AZURE UPDATES

Added support for new region

We now support Azure deployments in the Brazil Southeast region.

VM Right-Sizing Added to MAVs

You can now view the Right-Sizing recommendations for your Azure virtual machines (VMs) in the Azure Multi-Account Views (MAVs) account types. You can find this report in the Utilization module of any selected Azure MAV.

Subscription-Level Historic and Current Costs for Azure Plan Transitions

When a subscription account transitions to Azure Plan within a cloud solution provider (CSP), you can now view its historic and current costs. Previously, you needed to add the subscription account twice. This change also ensures that you have consistent costs throughout the lifetime of the subscription.

GENERAL UPDATES

Improved messaging for large Advanced Grouping exports

We have improved the text that displays after you execute an export in the Advanced Grouping report to better clarify why we must deliver your data via export.

AWS UPDATES

Updates to AWS GovCloud Account Configuration

We have made the following changes to the configuration process for AWS GovCloud accounts so that you can more easily onboard and manage these accounts:

• You no longer need to add a commercial paying account ID to create a GovCloud account. However, without the paying commercial account, the software won’t display any cost data.
• You can change the linked commercial paying account after you create the account. This update allows you to correct mistakes during onboarding without having to delete and recreate the account.
• The software can now validate that you are not assigning the same commercial account to multiple GovCloud accounts.

Update to VPC Security Group IP Range Collection

We updated the way we collect IP ranges from VPC security groups, which corrected an issue where—under certain conditions—our software displayed None instead of 0.0.0.0 on inbound or outbound rules. As a result, these rule changes may impact the Security Group Rules Added and/or Deleted rows in the Change Monitoring report for the data collected on February 2, 2021. While this change is expected for that date, it should not impact any other dates. If you have any questions, please contact our Support team.

AZURE UPDATES

Added Cost Savings report to Multi-Account Views

We have added the Cost Savings report to the Azure Multi-Account Views (MAVs).

Better multi-currency support for invoicing

If you are an Azure customer who use multiple currencies in your Payer account, you can now convert each currency separately during invoicing. Under the Advanced Options in the Invoice Generator, we will show a row for each currency we detected in the cost data that you can convert.

Added support for Gateway Load Balancers

We updated the EC2 Load Balancer Inventory reports and Best Practice Checks to support Gateway Load Balancers.

AWS UPDATES

Added support for more projects within the Jira integration

We have updated our Jira integration to support all the available projects within a Jira account. Previously, this list was limited to 50 projects. You can manage your Jira integration by navigating to Account Settings > Integrations > Configurations.

New AWS Well-Architected Tool Inventory report

To support AWS’s Well-Architected Tool, we have launched the AWS List of Well-Architected Workloads report, which can help you gain visibility and track your workloads and milestones from the Well-Architected Tool over time. This report provides a summary of your workloads—showing accounts, owners, risks, and more—as well as a detailed breakdown of each milestone set against your workload. The report breaks down each milestone by lenses and pillars, allowing you to see how your workloads have evolved over time.

To access this report, navigate to Inventory (or Resources) > Well-Architected. By default, this report is disabled; to enable it, click the link within the report. Once enabled, the software will begin to retrieve data from the Well-Architected Tool and build the report.

Please note that new IAM permissions are required for us to report on this data: "wellarchitected:List*" and "wellarchitected:Get*".

AZURE UPDATES

Government Subscription VM Memory Metrics Improvements

We’ve made updates to the ways we can get VM memory metrics for Azure Government subscriptions. Those metrics are visible within our reporting and are leveraged for recommendations such as Right-Sizing.