Azure FOCUS export

Simplified management of your Azure account thanks to Azure FOCUS formatted file processing. The Azure FOCUS files provide unblended and amortized costs in the same account, allowing you to streamline your financial operations and get deeper insights into your account.

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Waste Detector Savings Costs Selection

Take control of how recommendation savings are calculated for your AWS accounts. Choose between Net-Amortized costs for accurate visibility or On-Demand costs for comparison.

Anomalies and Alerts

• Set up CUD (committed use discount) Expiration Alert Rules to proactively monitor your CUD and ensure continuous coverage.
• Define anomaly alert rules using Enrichment Tag filters, enabling you to customize rules based on your organization's unique business structure and logic.
• Define daily cost criteria to your anomaly alert rules alongside total cost impact monitoring. This allows cater for spikes as well as longer changes in your cost patterns.

AWS automatic onboarding

• Added validations to the automatic onboarding script.
• Users can now define the bucket name during automatic onboarding.
• Added option to connect Linked Accounts as part of automatic onboarding.

Cost & Usage / Assets

• Added a dedicated "Linked Account ID" column on the Assets page.
• Re-ordered filter values for improved usability.
• Pie panels in dashboards now display both % and #.

Commitments

Save AWS SP Simulator charts as panels in your dashboards for ongoing analysis.

Savings Plans Simulator (Replaces SP Analyzer)

The new Savings Plans Simulator delivers enhanced insights and smarter recommendations for Compute Savings Plans.

▫️Key Enhancements:

• More accurate recommendations with improved algorithms.
• Covers all compute services: EC2, Lambda, and Fargate.
• Evaluates all six purchasing options for each coverage selection.
• Interactive visualizations to explore cost and coverage simulations.
• Option to exclude expiring SPs for a more precise forecast.
• Now available for MSP customers using rebilling data.f

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Integration

• ServiceNow: Receive Umbrella cost alerts and reports in ServiceNow’s Incident table.
• Slack: Support for private channels.
• Jira: Added support for On-Prem (AKA: Data Center) Jira.

MSP Enrichments

• Choose whether to transfer EDP discount to customers from the Preferences page.
• New Trigger Rebilling page to monitor and initiate rebilling processes for multiple months and track each month's status.

Billing Rules 2.0

Introducing a revamped Billing Rules page with powerful new features for AWS and Azure:

• Advanced Filters: Build complex and customizable setups.
• New Exclusion Rule: Define rules to exclude specific data from rebilling costs.
• Improved Design: Easier navigation with enhanced filtering options

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New Recommendations

AWS

• Idle VPC Endpoint: Identify and address idle endpoints.
• AWS Backup Outdated Snapshot: Spot and delete old snapshots.
• RDS Storage Type Change: Optimize RDS storage costs with tailored suggestions.

Azure

• Azure SQL Database Right-Sizing: Identify unutilized DTU/ vCore.

Waste Detector

• AWS recommendations are been calculated using Net Amortized Cost for more accurate calculation.
• Added creation/start date columns to relevant recommendations.
• Enhanced completion status and view categories- automatically detects closed recommendations or alternative implementations.

• Views Categories: Define views tailored for specific categories- visible to your user, across all accounts under the same cloud provider, or limited to a specific account.

  

Waste Detector

• EBS Type Change-GovCloud Compatibility.
• EBS Outdated Snapshot was split into 3 recommendations:
  • EBS Outdated Snapshot
  • AMI Orphaned snapshot
  • AWS Backup Snapshot

MSP:

• Support Multicloud Accounts for MSP customers
• Define accounts as dedicated or shared directly on the Preferences page.

Alerts:

• New Filters: Operation, Purchase Option
• Cost Type additions: Unblended/Amortize/Net Amortize

Multicloud Tags:

Centralized view of all clouds tags in one place.

MSP rebilling

• AWS rebilling now includes ECS Fargate and Lambda Savings Plans for more accurate cost management.
• AWS RI rebilling has been enhanced for OpenSearch, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, and Redshift, and blocking the discount from being transferred to the customer.

Waste Detector views:

Save your customized filters on the Waste Detector page as reusable views, and set your saved view as the default.

New GCP onboarding Experience

Experience smoother transitions and enhanced capabilities as part of our new Onboarding experience. Some of the latest enhancements:

• A robust validated onboarding journey.
• Integration of Kubernetes (K8s) data
• An updated, user-friendly design.

Click here for onboarding instructions.

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New AWS Recommendation

AWS RDS Aurora I/O Optimized- Identify Amazon Aurora clusters where switching to the I/O-Optimized configuration can reduce costs for I/O-heavy workloads

Microsoft Teams Integration

Send reports, alerts, and other notifications directly to your Microsoft Teams channels, ensuring seamless communication with your team.

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Alerts:

• You can now set threshold alerts on account/linked account/service levels along with all our new filters.
• We’ve revamped the Commitment Expiration alerts, adding more details to help manage your commitments effectively.

GCP K8s Labels

Add metadata and labels to your account configuration from multiple sources, enriching your GCP Kubernetes dataset.

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CostGPT

You can now ask CostGPT for guidance on best practices and documentation, making it easier to get quick answers to your questions.