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2024

2024

Owned by Daria Lebedeva
Last updated: Jan 06, 2025
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Autumn '24 Release

 

GPU metrics in CMDB

Cloudaware Breeze now supports the discovery of GPU data for AWS EC2 Instances and physical servers. Customers can track metrics such as GPU count, GPU model, and vendor in Cloudaware CMDB.

 

NEW SERVICES

Azure Management Groups

Customers can view the Azure organization structure and group subscriptions in Cloudaware CMDB. Cloudaware supports the discovery of Azure Management Groups, displaying up to 6 levels in the hierarchy. Note that the Hierarchy Settings Administrator role, which includes write permission, is required for Cloudaware to access Azure Management Groups. Learn more about permissions here.

 

AWS Firewall Manager

Customers using custom AWS Firewall Manager Service policies for centralized WAF Management can now report on AWS FMS policies and see relationships between FMS policies and resulting WAF policies and groups.

AWS Inspector

Customers use AWS Inspector for vulnerability scanning, providing SecOps teams with comprehensive vulnerability data and reports. Cloudaware now supports AWS EC2 Inspector vulnerabilities.

In addition, fields showing data from AWS Inspector are available on EC2 instance records in Cloudaware CMDB.

AWS QuickSight

Customers can report on AWS QuickSight users, assigned roles and associated costs.

AWS VPC IPAM

Cloudaware supports AWS VPC IPAM, a new VPC feature for managing IP addresses. Customers now access enhanced reporting on IP addresses, organizing IP space, and monitoring IP spaces that are in use.

 

UPDATED SERVICES

Azure PostgreSQL/My SQL

Cloudaware added support for Azure PostgreSQL and MySQL flexible servers. Customers can report on them by using a filter ‘Deployment Mode = Flexible’ in CMDB.

 

AWS Cost Management

Cloudaware supports cost metrics for AWS CloudWatch and CloudWatch Logs services (such as CloudWatch Logs Log Groups). The metrics are available on the resource level in Cloudaware CMDB.

Tags with aws prefix, e.g. aws:autoscaling:groupName, are supported as billing tags in Cloudaware to improve cost allocation.

 

New Relic

The new object Relic Synthetic Monitor has been added to extend New Relic visibility.

 

Summer '24 Release

 

NEW SERVICES

Azure Stack HCI

Cloudaware now supports Azure Stack HCI, discovering the following objects: Arc Setting, Cluster, Gallery Image, Network Interface, Network Machine Link, Virtual Hard Disk, and Virtual Machine.

Azure Arc

The following objects are supported: Azure Hybrid Compute Machine, Azure Hybrid Private Endpoint Connection, Azure Hybrid Private Link Scope.

 

UPDATED SERVICES

Compliance Engine

Support for Azure CIS Benchmarks v 2.0.0 is added.

Conflux (Log Management)

OneLogin logs are supported by Cloudaware Conflux.

 

AWS S3

Cloudaware adds support for S3 Multi-Region Access Points. Learn more about this S3 feature here.

AWS Lambda

Cloudaware now supports AWS Lambda Layers and Layer Versions. Customers can view Lambda layer inventories and their associations with Lambda Functions using Cloudaware reports, such as 'AWS Lambda Functions by Version'. Lambda Functions can have multiple layers/versions, and a layer version can be attached to multiple functions, creating a many-to-many relationship through the AWS Lambda Function Layer Version Link object.

AWS Service Catalogue

Customers relying on the AWS Service Catalog service can now track and report on the following AWS Service Catalog objects: Action Artifact Links, Portfolio Budget Links, Portfolio Shares, Product Budget Links, Provisioning Artifacts, Provisioned Products, and Service Actions.

 

Spring '24 Release

 

Requester Pays data for AWS S3 Buckets is available in CMDB

Cloudaware extends visibility into Amazon S3 service, supporting Requester Pays feature for S3 buckets. In AWS S3, bucket owners typically incur storage and data transfer costs. Alternatively, owners can enable 'Requester Pays', shifting request and download expenses to the requesters. FinOps can determine the bucket's payer by comparing its resource ID with the AWS account IDs that access it.
Cloudaware fetches payer data from billing files to enrich S3 details in CMDB. Customers can utilize Cloudaware CMDB to review the payer information at the bucket level. More about Requester Pays for S3 buckets here.

 

NEW SERVICES

CloudWatch Agent

The Amazon CloudWatch Agent is a lightweight and flexible monitoring agent provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows you to collect and publish system-level metrics, logs, and custom metrics from your EC2 instances to Amazon CloudWatch.

Cloudaware adds support for Amazon CloudWatch Agent to collect memory utilization data for EC2 instances. The data is available on an instance level and can be used for reports and dashboards.

 

UPDATED SERVICES

AWS CloudWatch Logs

 

NEW INTEGRATIONS

Alibaba Cloud

Oracle Cloud

Snyk

 

Winter '24 Release

 

NEW SERVICES

Amazon Cognito

Amazon Cognito helps developers add user management and sync features to mobile and web apps. Using Amazon Cognito, developers easily integrate sign-up, sign-in, and secure user access to app resources.

Cloudaware supports Amazon Cognito, allowing customers to track and report information related to identity & user pools. Customers can enable investigations in case of a security incident relating to Cognito.

 

AWS Verified Access

Customers leveraging AWS Verified Access can determine the usage and location of this service by examining associated trust providers, groups, instances, and endpoints

 

Azure Cognitive Services

Customers who use Azure Speech to Text service can now leverage the visibility of the Azure AI Account and Azure AI Deployment objects in CMDB.

 

Azure Policy

Cloudaware supports Azure Policy service and adds the following objects:

  • Azure Policy Definitions

  • Azure Policy Set Definitions

  • Azure Policy Assignment

  • Azure Policy Exemption

  • Azure Policy Remediation

  • Azure Policy Attestation

 

Azure SAML Certificates

Cloudaware adds the object Azure AD Service Principal Certificate to gather information about certificates. Customers using SAML certificates for SSO can track the expiration date of certificates and rotate them before expiry.

 

UPDATED SERVICES

AWS CloudWatch Logs

Objects Delivery, Delivery Destination, Delivery Source and Destination are added. Customers can tags these objects in Cloudaware Tag Analyzer.

 

NEW INTEGRATIONS

Tenable Security Center

Cloudaware maps vulnerabilities from Tenable Security Center to such CMDB CIs as AWS Network Interface, Azure Network Interface, and Physical Server. This enhanced visibility empowers SecOps teams to perform more focused incident response actions, improving the organization’s security. Customers can prioritize remediation efforts by leveraging relevant vulnerability context for IT assets.

AppDynamics

Customers can view AppDynamics applications, accounts, backends, nodes, and tiers in Cloudaware CMDB. By correlating AppDynamics data to Cloudaware CMDB CIs, SecOps and SRE teams get a more in-depth understanding of the impact of technical issues. Check the setup guide here.