Improvements

• There is a new API call that allows customers to perform Create, Read, Update, and Delete of Custom Usage Rates

  • Get Custom Usage Rates - Admin API Reference Guide 
  • Add Custom Usage Rate - Admin API Reference Guide 
  • Edit Custom Usage Rate - Admin API Reference Guide 
  • Delete Custom Usage Rate - Admin API Reference Guide  

Bug Fixes

• Addressed an issue that was preventing email notifications from being sent when the cost of an Azure Reservation does not auto-assign to the desired purchased or scoped Subscription. 
• Resolved an issue preventing new accounts from being properly configured in the platform.  
• Solved an issue where a custom billing charge Transaction Type for a previously saved custom charge could not be changed. 

Improvements

• Budget Alerts may now be applied using both Account Family and Project Code in addition to Account: 

• The User Email of the user ID that is currently logged in to CloudCheckr is now displayed at the menu top.
• Azure BPC now supports 'Microsoft Defender for Cloud' BPCs.
• Extended current AWS Cost Alert API Call support to also support creating, modifying, and deleting Azure Cost Alerts.  

Bug Fixes

• Addressed an issue where AWS Change Monitoring did not match CloudTrail Events. 
• Solved an issue where the CSV Export for AWS | MAV List of EC2-VPC Security Groups Report was ignoring the report configuration / export options. 
• Resolved an issue where new Payee Accounts were not being placed in the same group as parent group despite being configured to do so. 
• Addressed a case where the Azure Reserved Instance Billing Configuration page did not load. 

Improvements

• To clarify the List Cost display on the Billing and Cost Management Dashboard, we are now summarizing all charges between -.01 and .01 (currently displayed as 0) into “Others” and then we display the aggregate cost of these very small costs in “Others”. Previously some very small value services would be displayed as “0 when in fact they represented cost that had been rounded down to 0. 

• Program Credit Management has been enhanced to more flexibly hide or show credits. There are now two scenarios:

  • “Hide Credits from Payees” is selected, which then allows the user to select which credit types should be SHOWN to the owner in the Assign credits screen. 
  • “Hide Credits from Payees” is not selected, which then allows the user to select which credit types should be HIDDEN from the owner in the Assign Credits screen.

CASE 1: “Hide Credits from Payees” is selected:

• For cases when Azure is reporting duplicate / ambiguous VM Reservation data, CloudCheckr is correctly capturing the cost, even though the Service Category is set to Unknown for these ambiguous reservations.
  Customers who wish to capture all Service Category data for VM reservations may now do so by providing CloudCheckr with the Reservation Order Reader role, which is accomplished by following steps through Permissions to view and manage Azure reservations - Microsoft Cost Management 

Bug Fixes

• Azure MCA Marketplace charges are now being fully collected and reported. 

Improvements

• AWS Billing Collector performance has been improved; specific customer impact will depend upon the cost features used (Unsharring, Assign Credits, etc.).
• For Azure Reservations, it is now possible to configure an email notification when the reservations cannot be set according to the desired priorities in the RI Reservation Billing Configuration page.
  Email will be with a csv indicating a list by Billing Month of those reservations that are in NOT SET status. Below is a sample of email and the attachment.

Bug Fixes

• Solved an issue preventing AWS cost ingestion in certain cases when Assign Credits was in use.  
• Addressed an issue in Reservation Billing Configuration where a Reservation that had been cancelled was still displaying, even when choosing Show only active Purchase Orders.  
• Savings Plan Analytics now correctly reports on Savings Plans for SageMaker and other non-compute Savings Plans. 
• Solved an issue to allow new payee accounts to be placed automatically in the same Parent Group as of Payer.
• Solved an issue where AWS BC creates duplicate entries for unassigned credits, which causes errors when unassigned credits are later assigned.

Improvements

• Added support for Azure EA agreements migrating to MCA within CloudCheckr Multi-Account Views (MAVs). 

Bug Fixes

• Addressed an issue with Licenses Charges for Azure PayGo subscriptions not being ingested.
• Solved an issue with the Azure Rightsizing Recommendation Report related to standard E-Series VMs.
• Fixed an issue with Best Practice Check “Ensure routing tables for VPC” which was providing duplicate data, and the link for “List of” was broken. 
• Fixed an issue where Charts in the RI Recommendations PDF Export were not matching (or were blank) the graphs in each result of the UI report. 
• Addressed a scenario where a negative custom charge value was created in its own service category, and was not reporting correctly in the single month summary report. 
• Resolved an issue with the Service Now integration not working properly in our High Security environment. 

Report Deprecation

• Cloud HSM reports have been deprecated. 

Release Notes 34.6

34.6 Improvements

• Added the option to provide a fallback fee assignment option within the Azure Reservation Configuration page (CMx UI: choose Billing/Configure/Reservation Billing Configuration)

  

• Clarified within the UI the specific ways that Uncompress Pricing Tier works 

34.6 Bug Fixes

• Addressed a Cost Saving Report issue (in Core UI only) would not display all results in a MAV  
• Fixed an issue preventing Azure Monthly Saved Filter emails for MAVs from being sent

Release Notes 34.5 - April 29th, 2024

34.5 Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue preventing certain Trusted Advisor Checks from appearing 
• Resolved an issue where the Best Practice Check “Ensure routing tables for VPC peering are "least access"” check was incorrectly reporting with duplicates.
• Addressed an issue preventing programmatic invoice scheduling in AWS when using the API call “schedule_invoice” 

Improvements

• Support for Azure Israel Central region has been added
• It is now possible to edit each condition in Cost Allocator to update conditions as needed

Bug Fixes

• Resolved an issue where Last Login data was omitted from AWS List of Workspaces in the CSV export
• Addressed a scenario where Cost BI would fail to return data when filtering for “contains” using tag values if the volume of tags was very large 
• Fixed an issue where advanced grouping for Azure MCA did not reflect the Instance ID
• Addressed an issue where Cost BI $0 costs were included when “Include Zero Costs” was left unchecked
• The Manage Emails page in CMx now loads consistently 

Improvements

• Cost Allocator now supports the ability to match the exact ResourceID property. New options include “Match Key Exactly” and “Match Value Exactly.”

Bug Fixes

• Resolved an issue with the Azure edit_account_email_settings_v2 API call, which was returning an error code even when successful.
• Resolved an issue with the Azure create_subscription_family api was failing, incorrectly indicating the subscription is already assigned a subscription family – even though the subscription was not already in a subscription family. 
• Addressed a scenario where the Retail Cost for Azure Maps was not taking the free tier into consideration; feature request created with Microsoft to provide this information as part of their API response. 
• Resolved an issue where duplicate projects with the same AWS Account ID or Azure Subscription ID were incorrectly allowed to be created.
• Addressed an inconsistency between the EC2 RI Inventory vs EC2 Cost Summary when reporting the Total Instances Unused.