New Azure Plan Purchase Cost Assignment

Use Case: By default, Azure Plan CSPs group all licenses into a “Not Set” subscription which does not allow users to apply custom charges to push license costs to subscriptions

Using the new Azure One Time Charge Configuration screen, customers can now assign Azure Plan one-time purchase costs (i.e. license purchases) to individual subscriptions. Create, Remove, and Edit mappings using a view of filterable rows per one-time charge type, allowing the user to assign purchase costs to the desired subscription. 

Following is the information that surfaced for filtering and assignment: 

• Billing Customer (Azure Customer Name from the billing file)
• Subscription (Alias/friendly name of the subscription, and GUID)
• Consumed Service
• Meter Category
• Meter Name 

New Program Credit Automated Assignment  

Use Case: MSPs who use List Cost calculations may wish to standardize and automate the way Program Credits are treated each month when costs are passed from L1 to L2.    

Using a new menu in the Assign Credits Screen, MSP customers can now automate the assignment of Program Credits as part of List Cost calculations.  

• Program Credit Management enables the automated assignment of Program Credits as part of List Cost calculations, for the following types:

  • CloudFront Security Bundle
  • Solution Provider Program (SPP)
  • Enterprise Discount Program (EDP)
  • Private Pricing Agreement (PPA)
  • Tax refund line item
  • NOTE: if an automated assignment is selected, it will override manual credit assignment and any rules configured in “Assign Credits Rules”
  • Program Credit Management: Setting up auto assignment of program credits to its owner from this menu will override manual assignment and the rules configured in "Assign Credits Rules" during the billing process.

Other Improvements

• Remove Active Credentials in an AWS Project  

  • Active credentials may now be deleted for a given AWS Project by selecting the Delete button on the Billing and Usage Configuration page
  • Typically used by MSPs who no longer are responsible for a given customer’s cloud estate, however, that historic data must be retained

Bug Fixes

• When configuring Alerts, the "Send only once" checkbox now properly saves the setting

July 31, 2023 - Release Notes 31.4.1

Bug Fixes

• Addressed an issue where the AWS billing collector was not able to process data as a result of SQS data column inconsistencies between the consolidated CUR / Payer and Payee levels 
• Improved performance of certain database queries that were resulting in an unexpected inability to connect