Spring '23 Release
NEW FEATURES
Azure MCA Billing
Microsoft introduced a new licensing agreement requiring customers to migrate from Enterprise Agreement to Microsoft Customer Agreement. Cloudaware supports the MCA billing type to enable customers to continue using Azure Cost Management in full. Learn more
Check the Cloudaware’s Microsoft Azure Billing Guide for updates.
NEW SERVICES
AWS Connect
Azure Databricks
Azure Synapse AnalyticsAzure DDoS Protection Plan
UPDATED SERVICES
Compliance Engine
Cloudaware supports CIS AWS Benchmarks v1.5.0:
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Fields covering Read/Write IOPS metrics are added to the objects AWS RDS Cluster.
NEW INTEGRATIONS
Winter '23 Release
NEW FEATURES
Custom Fisсal Periods
Cloudaware consumes billing data files from cloud vendors as is. Some reports, such as AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR), provide more detailed cost and usage aggregations by hour or day. However, these metrics are still based on a calendar. For every line item, metrics such as 'Usage Start Date' and 'Usage End Date' don't give ground for calculating a resource cost for a specific unit of time.
Cloudaware offers a new approach to cost management under custom fiscal periods. First, a customer describes their fiscal period structure. Next, using advanced logic in Google BigQuery, Cloudaware maps the calendar and custom fiscal dates to generate a unified dataset containing both the 'Report Year-Month' metric and a metric indicating customer-defined fiscal periods. Then, Cloudaware uses this dataset to visualize cloud costs based on customer-defined fiscal periods in the Cloudaware BI Analytics portal:
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UPDATED FEATURES
AWS Amortized Costs
Cloudaware supports amortized cost calculations. Customers using AWS Reservations such as Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances can better understand how AWS spending is distributed across billing periods. Leverage Cloudaware advanced analytics:
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Learn more about cost datasets types in AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cloud-financial-management/understanding-your-aws-cost-datasets-a-cheat-sheet/
UPDATED SERVICES
TunHub for VMware vCenter
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