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Subscribe to UpdatesImprovements to Billing Update Cadance for L2 Child Accounts
NOTE: This only impacts customers using the L1/L2 configuration.
When a billing update completes at the L1 parent level, it will now force an update to start at the L2 account. This will help ensure data freshness within the child L2 account.
New AWS API call: billing/delete_tag_mapping
This new API call deletes existing tag mappings.
Added Pie charts to Custom dashboards
You can now select Pie charts as your format when you build a custom dashboard.
Reservation Purchase Support for Indirect EA Accounts
We have augmented our product support for Indirect Enterprise Agreement (EA) accounts. Now, when you purchase a reservation within any Indirect EAs account, we will collect those costs and show them in the appropriate Cost report.
Manage existing API access keys with CloudCheckr CMx technology
You can now use CloudCheckr CMx access tokens when running API calls in our legacy product. You can still use your existing API access keys in the legacy product, but access tokens will provide better security, more consistent authorization management, and the ability to access multiple projects and accounts.
Set Azure currency in a Cost dashboard
If you have an Azure account that uses a currency other than the default option of US dollars (USD), you can now select from a list of available currencies on the Home page of your Azure account.
Updated the Account Export function
We made the following changes to our export function:
Access legacy and CloudCheckr CMx dashboards through the Overview list
When you open the Overview drop-down list on the Home page, you can now choose from dashboards created in our legacy product in addition to the new dashboards you create in CloudCheckr CMx.
Added two new panes to Custom dashboards
You can now choose from two additional pane options when building a dashboard:
Added a new column to the Users page
Added the User Level Access? column to the Users page under Settings > Access Management. This column will display Yes or No to indicate if a user has direct access to CloudCheckr CMx regardless if you have assigned a role to the user.
Updated the Historical Billing Summary report to display 18 months of data
Changed the Historical Billing Summary report to show 18 months' worth of data by default rather than 36 months of historic costs.
Updated the EC2 List of Reserved Instances report for CUR payers
We have updated the EC2 List of Reserved Instances report for Payer accounts based on the AWS Cost & Usage Report (CUR)—allowing our software to populate data directly from the CUR instead of applying our analysis to fields such as Instances Using Reserved Instances and Percent Consumed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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*".
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.