October 14, 2021 - Release Notes - Tags, Friendly names, and more! - CloudCheckr

Create custom cost dashboards using Tag Key-Value pair

CMx Dashboards now include the ability to group by or filter to one or many Tag Key-Value pairs. This allows you to generate unique cost-over-time reports by business unit, environment, project, and more using Tag Key combinations.

Grouping by a Tag Key generates a comparison of all associated values. From here, you can further refine the results by filtering down to particular Tag Key-Value pairs.

Check out the docs

See your AWS Account Friendly Names in your Dashboards

Identifying your AWS accounts in Dashboards just got easier! In any Dashboard pane with data displayed by AWS Account ID, the Account "Friendly" Names will be automatically added (assuming the name is available). For example, if a friendly name is available for an Account, the Account ID will show in Dashboards as "Account Friendly Name - Account ID".

If there is no friendly name, the Account ID will be shown instead.

Pair tag and property conditions using Tag Mapping CSV uploads

Using our Tag Mapping feature, you can direct the costs from specific tags or properties to a custom tagging structure, allowing you to more efficiently organize your costs, whether you have five for 5,000 tags in your cloud account. With this update, we've improved that bulk creation process, giving you the ability to pair tag conditions with property conditions using the CSV file upload.

Example upload:

We have also made improvements to errors when processing the CSV files. The row number and reason for any failures will be displayed at the end of the upload process, allowing you to identify what failed and why.

Check out the docs

Updates to Advanced Grouping Monthly & Weekly Emails

We have improved the user experience when configuring emails within the Advanced Grouping report to ensure the proper settings are chosen. When aggregating your saved filter by week or month, you will no longer be able to save an incompatible daily email. If you do need a daily email, be sure to update your save filter to aggregate the data daily.

Please note that if you load an existing saved filter that has an incompatible email/aggregate filter, you will see a message to update and re-save your email settings.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

AWS Account Friendly Names were not showing in some reports. fix
Some payers were inadvertently classified as a payee. fix
Some consolidated billing emails from MAVs were not being sent fix
Improved resource inventory collection for the AWS China Region. improvement