Improvements

• User Experience updates to the RI Recommendations and Cost Savings reports.

  • Updated default columns to include “Instances to Purchase,” which describes the total number of recommendations to purchase per instance type. This column remains available on the CSV export (which also contains additional columns not in the UI).
  • Improved readability of certain data points.
  • Enhanced in-app help text to clarify differences between real-time RI Recommendations (pulled directly from AWS Cost Explorer) and snapshot-based Cost Savings reports, including details on data freshness and assessment criteria.

  • Added proactive in-app notification banners on the CMx Dashboard and Core BPC pages to alert users when their IAM policy is missing the required ce:GetReservationPurchaseRecommendation permission needed for the new RI Recommendation page and BPCs, guiding users to update their IAM policy to access the latest recommendations.

    • Updated logic ensures that only accounts with the correct permissions and feature enablement will display BPCs and recommendations.
  • RI Recommendation BPCs are now hidden (not shown as green/passing) when required permissions are missing or the feature is not enabled, preventing misleading results.

Bugs

• Resolved an issue where the RI recommendations report would export results to a JSON file rather than a CSV as expected.
• Resolved an issue for monthly emails configured from a saved filter that prevented the email from being sent if the month was not yet finalized.
• Resolved an issue where, when a default account family is enabled, the auto-assign feature was failing to successfully assign new accounts to that default account family.