AWS Billing Transfer for MSPs (Beta)

AWS Billing Transfer Beta Umbrella now supports onboarding AWS Billing Transfer accounts. Partners can onboard their Bill Transfer Account (PMA) directly, keeping cost visibility, recommendations, and billing workflows working exactly as before the transfer - no disruption for MSPs or their customers. The onboarding wizard handles the full setup including dual role configuration, correct CUR billing view selection, and automatic validation across both accounts.

If you'd like to enable this feature in your platform, please contact our support team at [email protected].

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AWS Cloud-K8s Unified View

AWS Cloud-K8s Unified View The Unified Cloud and K8s View enables you to visualize and analyze your AWS Cloud and Kubernetes (K8s) costs together in one seamless experience. With this unified view, you can see all your cost and usage data simultaneously, providing a holistic understanding of your total infrastructure spend. This integration allows you to perform deeper, cross-platform analysis, correlate Cloud and K8s resource usage, and gain a complete picture of how workloads contribute to overall costs - all from a single place.

If you'd like to enable this feature for your AWS accounts, please contact our support team at [email protected]. If you are MSP customer please contact your MSP.

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AWS K8s Budgets

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Available once the Unified Cloud-K8s is enabled

Gain better control over your Kubernetes spend on AWS with our new K8s Budgets capability.

You can now define and track budgets specifically for your Kubernetes workloads, alongside your broader AWS cloud costs - all within a single, unified experience. This allows you to monitor spending in real time, identify deviations early, and take action before costs exceed expectations.

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Recommendations Assignment

Waste Detector now allows you to assign recommendations to specific users in your organization. Assignees receive an email notification with the recommendation details and a direct link to review and act on it.

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Business Mapping - Mapping Rules Groups

Business Mapping now lets you organize your cost allocation rules into custom groups with color coding, making it easy to segment mappings by customer tier, department, or region. You can see which mappings split costs to shared resources directly in the table, with detailed breakdowns showing split amounts, percentages, and allocation methods. An always-visible simulation panel shows real-time cost distribution across all your mappings, helping you preview and validate your allocation rules before applying them.

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Business Mapping - Split Over Split

For smarter shared cost allocation, you can now chain split cost mappings together in Business Mapping. Instead of manually maintaining fixed ratios for every shared cost, point a new split cost at an existing one and Umbrella Cost will automatically follow the same proportional distribution, and keep it in sync as costs shift month over month.

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New GCP Recommendations

• GCP Cloud SQL Right Sizing. Learn More▸
• GCP Outdated Image. Learn More▸
• GCP Outdated Snapshot. Learn More▸

Azure Recommendations

• Umbrella new native IP unattached recommendation along with new include preference. Learn More▸
• VM Reserved Instance now present alternatives and offer preferences configuration. Learn More▸

Product Documentation & Support

Introducing the new Product Documentation & Support hub, your one-stop destination to access platform documentation, explore API references, stay up to date with release notes, and manage your support tickets.

Umbrella MCP

The Umbrella MCP Server enables cloud cost management within Claude using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This integration provides real-time cost & usage insights, recommendations, and budgets across AWS, Azure, and GCP from within your Claude chatbot experience.

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My Commitments-Savings Plans (AWS)

The My Commitments-AWS Savings Plans page gives a consolidated view of Savings Plan performance across AWS-linked accounts and services. It includes utilization and coverage metrics, on-demand equivalent cost comparisons, and visibility into net savings and unused commitments. The dashboard supports filtering by date range, region, linked account, services, and ARN, and allows drilling down into individual plan details and chargeback breakdowns. Database Savings Plans are supported as part of the new experience.

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My Commitments-Reservations (AWS)

The My Commitments-AWS Reservationsprovides a consolidated view of Reserved Instance performance across AWS-linked accounts and services. It includes utilization and coverage metrics, on-demand equivalent cost comparisons, and visibility into net savings and unused reservations. The dashboard supports filtering by date range, region, services, linked account, instance type, and ARN, and allows drilling down into individual reservation details and chargeback breakdowns.

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Business Mapping Filter in Waste Detector

The Business Mapping filter in the Waste Detector allows teams to filter recommendations based on business mapping relationships derived from the underlying resources. This helps align optimization insights with business context, making it easier to focus on recommendations that are relevant to specific teams, services, or cost centers.

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Azure GreenOps

The GreenOps capability for Azure provides visibility into the carbon footprint of your cloud usage, helping teams understand and manage the environmental impact of their workloads. It surfaces emissions data alongside cloud consumption, enabling more informed decisions that balance cost, performance, and sustainability goals. Contact our support team for more details.

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Jira Ticket Mapping Rules

The Ticket Mapping Rules feature allows users to customize ticket details when creating Jira tickets from Umbrella. It supports field mapping for recommendations, including custom Jira fields, to ensure full workflow visibility and alignment with existing Jira processes.

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New AWS Extended Support Recommendations

Extended Support recommendations highlight resources that are approaching or running on extended support, helping teams identify potential risk and cost impact early. ElastiCache extended support 📖 Learn more → DocumentDB extended support 📖 Learn more →### Virtual Tags Import/Export APIs

The Virtual Tags Import API enables programmatic management of virtual tags at scale. It supports uploading large CSV files up to 5GB, with options to add new tag assignments or fully replace existing ones. The API provides visibility into import progress across processing stages and supports compressed files to improve upload performance, making large-scale tag management more efficient and predictable.

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New Service Anomaly is now GA

The new service anomaly is now open to all. Dont forget to set your alerts. 📖 Learn more →

For MSPs: Billing Rules-AWS 'Support +'

We’ve added the newly released AWS Support+ to our AWS Support billing rules, ensuring accurate cost allocation and visibility within your cost model.

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New Service Anomaly (Beta)

Stay informed with automatic alerts for new services incurring costs for the first time in the past three months - helping you quickly spot unexpected spending or new usage patterns.

Note: This feature is currently available to selected customers in beta and will be rolled out to all users soon.

Waste Detector Jira integration (Beta)

Link Jira tickets directly to recommendations in the Waste Detector. Add ticket details like summary, description, and priority to track progress seamlessly within your workflow.

Note: This feature is currently available to selected customers in beta and will be rolled out to all users soon.

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Budget Summary

The new Budget Summary provides a simple, month-by-month table of all your budgets. View your allocated budgets, actual costs, and remaining balances in one place to easily track spend, spot variances, and stay aligned with your financial goals.

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Compare Multiple Cost Measurements on the Assets Page

You can now select and display multiple cost measurements side by side in the same report on the Assets page. This makes it easier to understand the difference between the various costs, for example, see your savings by comparing Public Cost and Amortized Cost.

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View Partner and Customer Costs Together on the Assets page

See both Partner Cost and Customer Cost for each line item directly on the Assets page. This helps you clearly identify your margins and better understand the cost structure between you and your customers.

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Views on the Cost & Usage Explorer page

Save your preferred filters and groupings as custom views for quicker navigation. You can even set a default view for the Cost & Usage page.

Tip: This feature is also available on the Waste Detector page under the Recommendations section.

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API Enhancements

You can now manage Channels and Alerts directly through our public APIs - no need to navigate the UI.

Easily integrate Umbrella’s alerts and notifications into your existing automation workflows

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New Filters in Waste Detector

We’ve added three new filters to help you pinpoint the most relevant recommendations faster:

• Virtual Tags
• Tag Groups
• Labels

Public List of Values

For service, region, availability zone, and usage type filters, you’ll now see a new Public Values tab. This shows all values available from the cloud provider- not just those currently in your billing export.

This feature is available across the platform (Budgets, Alerts, Dashboards, Cost & Usage, Billing Rules, etc.- except Waste Detector) and lets you configure in advance for services you plan to use in the future. For example, you can now set a budget for a service you’ll start consuming mid-quarter.

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New Bedrock Recommendations

1. Bedrock Provisioned Throughput Commitment.
2. Bedrock RightSizing.

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Edit Onboarded Account details

Need to update your Azure Client Secret, change the bucket for your AWS CUR, or adjust another setting? You can now **edit onboarded account details directly from the UI **across all cloud providers- no need to reach out to support. Plus, you can see when the value was last updated, who made the change, and what the previous value was.

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AWS Spot on the Pricing Page

Easily track spot costs over time by instance type or availability zone. This helps you make smarter decisions when selecting spot instances and optimize your savings.

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Cost & Usage and Assets pages Improvements

1. For AWS, Amortized Cost is now the default cost metric.
2. GCP Marketplace charges are now classified under the “Family Type” field.
3. A new AWS usage type, NFU (Normalized Factor Units), has been added. It represents the calculation: NormalizedUsageAmount = UsageAmount × NormalizationFactor.

Marketplace classification in Billing rules (For Resellers)

Following AWS’s recent change to how Bedrock Marketplace charges are billed with a support fee, we’ve enhanced our Marketplace classification in Billing Rules. Instead of a simple “include/exclude” option for all Marketplace costs, you can now precisely select which Marketplace services to include or exclude from your calculations.

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Tag Governance is officially released

In cloud environments, proper tagging is essential for tracking costs, managing budgets, and ensuring accountability. Our new Virtual Tags (Tag Governance) feature helps you overcome common tagging challenges by giving you a centralized way to view, manage, and apply tags.

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Additional Improvements

1. Waste Detector You can now filter recommendations using the 'Label' filter.
2. Azure Subscription Names Subscription names are now pulled from the Billing Export instead of API permissions.
3. Cost Alerts Alerts can now be defined using 'Business Mapping' in the filters.
4. System Notifications Easily exclude all notifications at once.

Tag Governance - Beta

In cloud environments, proper tagging is essential for tracking costs, managing budgets, and ensuring accountability. Our new Virtual Tags (Tag Governance) feature helps you overcome common tagging challenges by giving you a centralized way to view, manage, and apply tags.

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Webhook channel

Webhook integration is now available, allowing you to get your Alerts or Recommendation Reports via webhook.

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Overlaying costs by Groupby on the Business Mapping page

You can now use the new GroupBy option in Business Mapping to simplify cost allocation rules. Instead of defining a long list of individual accounts or services, group and split costs automatically based on actual usage by fields like Linked Account, Region, Service, Cloud Provider, Payer Account, Family Type, or Operation.

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New fields for AWS and Azure on the Cost & Usage and Assets pages:

AWS:

• 'Commitment ARN' was added as a new filter field, allowing you to explore allocation and perform analysis for a specific Saving Plan or Reservation commitment.
• 'NFU' Usage measure: The usage is taken from 'lineItem/NormalizedUsageAmount' field in the CUR, which represents the following calculation: NormalizedUsageAmount=UsageAmount×NormalizationFactor
  

Azure: For FOCUS accounts, added the following 3 filter fields:

• Invoice ID
• Invoice Section ID
• Invoice Section Name

New Filter Mode on the Waste Detector

Choose between Recommendations or Invoice & Metadata filter modes for more control over your data view.

New Data in the Partner Billing Report (PDF)

Added Purchase Option classification (SP, RI, Spot, On-Demand) to the Partner billing PDF export. The report is available under the Partner section: Billing Status, Billing History, and Reports.

New Savings Tracker on the Waste Detector Page

Track realized savings over time with the new Savings Tracker, helping your team measure performance, enforce accountability, and meet FinOps goals.

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Monday.com Integration

You can now send reports, alerts, notifications, and more directly to your Monday.com boards and channels to keep all stakeholders informed in real-time.

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Custom Drill-Down on the Cost and Usage Page

On the Cost and Usage page, define your own drill-down path, choose which field to explore next for more flexible and tailored data analysis.

MSP Enhancements

New preferences are now available for MSPs in the Preferences section:

1. Decide whether to include or exclude tax in rebilling to customers.
2. Choose whether to include or exclude the SPP Discount in rebilling to customers.

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Recommendations Enhancements

Azure

1. New Compute Savings Plan Recommendation to help optimize long-term Azure compute costs.
2. Azure Disk Type Change:
   • Added charts: Disk IOPS Utilization and Throughput Utilization.
   • New data fields in recommendation details: IOPS and throughput utilization values.

AWS

1. RDS Recommendations:
   • Added a new field for the Cluster Access Level (Read / Write / Read + Write).
   • Added a new preference based on the Cluster Access Level type.
2. EC2 Right-Sizing:
   • New preferences:
     • Is the same Family Type
     • Define max CPU utilization
3. RDS Generation Upgrade:
   • New preferences:
     • Option to exclude graviton instances
     • Is the same physical processor only

User Management 2.0 (Beta)

We are excited to introduce User Management 2.0, a comprehensive overhaul of our access control system, now available in beta. This update offers greater flexibility, scalability, and precision in managing user roles, permissions, and data access across your organization.

🔑 Key Features:

• Custom Roles & Permissions
• Cost Centers for Hierarchical Access
• Dynamic Data Access
• Simplified Role Assignment
  And many more

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Currency Exchange (Beta)

You can now define a custom currency per onboarded account for more flexible financial reporting (including Multicloud). This beta feature enables both account-wide (Processing) and session-based (User) currency settings, helping you view cost data in your preferred currency across supported pages.

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Sankey chart panel at the Main Dashboard

Visualize account flows across multiple dimensions with our new Sankey chart panel.

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Amortized Cost View Enabled for Reseller Customers

Reseller customers using dedicated accounts now see Amortized Cost as the default cost measurement across the platform, offering improved visibility into cost allocation.

Advanced Setting for MSP Billing Rules

Now you can select the cost measurement (e.g., Amortized Cost) on which the billing rule will be calculated - the resulting discount will be applied equally to all other cost measurements.

Set Preferred Account View

Users can now select a default account from the top header dropdown. Once set, the platform will automatically open with the selected account on login.

Option to Exclude Microsoft 365 Charges (For MSP CSP only)

From the Cloud Accounts page or during onboarding, MSPs can choose to hide Microsoft 365-related charges from both their own and their customers' views.
Filtered items include "serviceFamily" = [Office 365 Global, CRM, Windows Commercial, Windows Intune].

Recommendation Enhancements

1. Azure Disk Type Change: New preferences settings let you exclude specific disk types from generating recommendations.
2. Azure Stopped VMs: Now includes recommendations for stopped-deallocated virtual machines.
3. Waste Detector Tags & Enrichment Tags Filters: Add include/exclude options.

New Cost Measurement for Azure

For Azure FOCUS accounts, we've added a new cost type - List Cost.

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RDS Extended Support Recommendation Enhancement

We now detach RDS minor versions as well to generate even more recommendations.

Commitment Expiration Alerts

You’ll now receive email alerts for upcoming expirations of Azure Reservations, Azure Savings Plans, and GCP CUDs.

Note: For Azure accounts, please ensure the required permissions are granted before setting up alerts.

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