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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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New recommendation for CloudWatch Logs: Optimize by moving to the Infrequent Access class.
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Savings Plans Simulator:
replaces the SP Analyzer, delivering enhanced insights and recommendations for Compute Savings Plans.
Key Features:
- More accurate Savings Plan recommendations with improved algorithms.
- Simulation data is based on all compute services: EC2, Lambda, and Fargate.
- Evaluation of all six purchasing options per coverage selection.
- Visualizations to explore simulation results for cost and coverage.
- Option to exclude SPs expiring soon for a more precise forecast.
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Integration:
- ServiceNow: Receive Anodot cost alerts and reports in ServiceNow’s Incident table.
- Slack: Support for private channels.
- Jira: Added support for On-Prem (AKA: Data Center) Jira.
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MSP Enrichments:
- Define if to transfer EDP discounts to customers from the Preferences page.
- New Trigger Rebilling page to allow monitor and trigger rebilling processes for multiple months along and track each month status.
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Billing Rules 2.0:
Learn More.
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 AWS Recommendations:
- Idle VPC Endpoint: Identify and address idle endpoints.
- AWS Backup Outdated Snapshot: Spot and delete old snapshots.
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Azure SQL Database Right-Sizing Recommendation: Identify unutilized DTU/ vCore.
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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.
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Waste Detector
- EBS Type Change-GovCloud Compatibility.
- EBS Outdated Snapshot was split into 3 recommendations:
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MSP:
- Support Multicloud Accounts for MSP customers
- Define accounts as dedicated or shared directly on the Preferences page.
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Alerts:
- New Filters: Operation, Purchase Option
- Cost Type additions: Unblended/Amortize/Net Amortize
- Multicloud Tags: Centralized view of all cloud tags in one place.
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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. - New AWS RDS Aurora I/O Optimized Recommendation
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Waste Detector views: Save your customized filters on the Waste Detector page as reusable views, and set your saved view as the default.
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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.
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An updated, user-friendly design.
Click here for onboarding instructions.
- Microsoft Teams Integration: send reports, alerts, and other notifications directly to your Microsoft Teams channels, ensuring seamless communication with your team.
Learn more about the Teams integration - 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. Learn more.
- CostGPT: You can now ask CostGPT for guidance on best practices and documentation, making it easier to get quick answers to your questions.
- Hourly Granularity for AWS Data: Monitor your AWS costs and usage with greater precision, providing a clearer and more accurate view of your cloud expenses.
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Jira Integration: Automatically create JIRA issues in your preferred projects directly from your reports and alerts.
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Recommendations:
- New K8s Workload Rightsizing Recommendation– Fine-tune CPU and memory for Kubernetes workloads based on usage.
- New EKS Extended Support and RDS Extended Support Recommendations- Identify Extended Support charges avoid unexpected costs and plan upgrades effectively.
- AWS EC2 Generation Upgrade Recommendation - It is now available to exclude Graviton type from the Recommendations Preferences page.
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MSP:
- Azure MSPs can automate customer creation during CSP account onboarding.
- Define an existing customer during the onboarding of a dedicated account.
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ChatGPT: It now supports questions related to Resource Cost and Usage and commitment coverage.
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Cost & Usage / Assets:
- AWS new fields: such as Tax Type, Bill Type, Instance Type Family, Normalization Factor, DB Engine, and Legal Entity.
- Azure new field: Benefit.
- Usage/Usage rate was added. - All Accounts / MultiCloud will be automatically created & new accounts will be associated with it.
- Improved the Budget Slack Alert Template.
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Cost & Usage / Assets:
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It is now available to onboard an AWS account using API. For guidance and API documentation click here.
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Enrichment Tags: You can upload enrichment tags CSV using drag-drop or from an S3 bucket. For more details click here.
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SCIM User Provisioning is now supported for OneLogin or OKTA.
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MSP:
- Allow MSPs to decide whether to transfer Private-Pricing to customers.
- Allow MSPs to decide whether to transfer their Distributor Discount to customers.
- Auto-assign linked accounts to customers in a dedicated account. - Alert on Azure Savings plans about to expire, allowing improved planning and execution of your plan coverage.
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New Waste Detector page: The new and improved Waste Detector gives you enhanced visibility of your cloud waste, with slice-and-dice capabilities to explore the waste, you can determine the best ways to convert potential savings to actual savings.
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Budget Improvements:
- Edit existing budgets.
- Define Slack channels as recipients of budget alerts.
- Define budget alerts in Multicloud budgets.
- Define rolling budgets for monthly budgets.
Check out our Budget capabilities here. - MSP Rebilling Preferences Customization: Allow MSPs to decide whether to transfer private pricing to customers.
- MSP Manual Rebilling triggering: Trigger rebilling per customer per month, in addition rebilling status and last rebilling indication were added.
- Expanded Slack Integration: Define alerting for anomalies, budgets, and more to specific Slack channels.
- Business Mapping Rules: Create rules based on item description along with existing options.
- New Alert UI: Enhanced alert configuration visualization along with new alert filtering configuration options.
- New Total Cost Change Alert.
- Redshift Reserved Instance recommendation.
- Enhanced Kubernetes (K8s) Data Visibility: in addition to the 'deployment' workload type, we now support a wider range of workload types, including DaemonSets, ReplicaSets, Jobs, and more that are being supported automatically.
- Hourly Granularity for GCP Data: Monitor your GCP costs and usage with greater precision, providing a clearer and more accurate view of your cloud expenses.
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Cost And Usage Improvements:
- Search filters have been added.
- Case-sensitive filtering capability has been added to the ‘Contain’ function.
- Added ‘Is’/ ‘Like’ operator for the Assets filters.
- Contain (former-’like’ function) function along with an ‘Exclude’ option.
- add an 'And'/'Or' condition for 'Tags' and 'Enrichment tags'.
- MSP Rebilling Process: Now supports calculating RIs based on all RDS options (Aurora, IOOptimized, multi-readers, multi-standby).
- Amortized Cost Type: Now available in Assets Multicloud.
- RDS Rightsizing & Generation Upgrade Recommendations: New MultiAZ indication added to the alternatives view.
- Time-Range Options: Added multiple time-range options in the Cost and Usage dashboards.
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Updated Azure onboarding: We've enhanced the Azure onboarding process with new improvements and capabilities:
- Data Fetch Simulation: Visualize the fetching of your container data.
- Increased Validations: Ensure a smoother onboarding experience.
- Customer Creation for MSPs: Easily create customers.
- Updated Design: Enjoy a refreshed and intuitive design.
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Multicloud Amortized Costs: View amortized costs in our MultiCloud account on both the Assets and Cost & Usage pages.
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MultiCloud Budget Capability: Define complex budgets, view forecasts, and manage budgets across all cloud types in one place.
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Role Assignment: Assign accounts to multiple roles on the Users & Roles page.
- Azure Virtual Machine Right Sizing Recommendation: Potential Savings calculation now considers existing RI discounts as part of the calculation, while Azure presents PAYG cost only. Learn more about Azure VM right Sizing recommendation
- PingFederate SSO: Now supported alongside all existing SSO options.
- Budget Enhancements:
- The new Budget Page is now available in the MultiCloud account.
- In the budget filter settings, you can now use the 'is'/'like' operator. - Multi-Currency in GCP recommendations: The potential saving is now taking into account the currency rate.
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K8s Cost breakdown view: available under the Cost and Usage page for K8s GCP.
- Exclude System Notifications: Exclude messages from system notification.
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Updated AWS onboarding: We've enhanced the Azure onboarding process with new improvements and capabilities:- Automatic onboarding by using a script.
- Connecting linked accounts during the onboarding to see recommendations.
- More validations to guarantee smooth onboarding.
- Creating customers (for MSP).
- Updated design.
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Forecast in CostGPT: We've added the Forecasting feature to our innovative CostGPT. This functionality leverages the extensive historical data accumulated within Anodot to generate ad-hoc forecasts for any cost-related questions you pose, providing insights in both text and graphs.
For more information click here.
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New System Notification: Introducing a new system notification to alert you about important functionality misalignments.
For more information and notification types click here.
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Upgraded and new AWS recommendations:
- AWS SP Analyzer Algorithm: Enhanced to provide more robust recommendations.
- AWS EC2 Generation Upgrade: Option to define recommendations using the same Physical Processor Only on the Preferences page.
- AWS ECS Fargate Right-Sizing: New recommendation available. For more details, dive into our comprehensive AWS recommendations documentation.
- Anomaly detection- display root cause analysis, option to add a comment, mark it as resolved/ acknowledged, and provide feedback for each anomaly.
You can read more about our anomalies here. - Azure RI Utilization page for CSP + MCA accounts. For more information and needed permissions click here.
- Updated algorithm for the AWS Savings Plan Analyzer to provide more accurate potential savings.
- Allow editing Subscriptions, Linked accounts, and Project names for Azure / AWS / GCP.
- Filter and group by purchase option in Azure accounts (to see the classification of SP, RI, onDemand, and Spot).
- Calculate and display the number of records found on the Assets page.
- New AWS recommendation- Migration from IPv4 to IPv6.
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Updated Budget page- creating tailored and complex budgets with 6 months forecast presentation.
You can read more about our new budget here.
- Pod level info - it is now possible to filter / group by pods on the Cost and Usage / Assets pages (available for all cloud types).
- New date picker on CUE.
- Supporting Google SSO. You can read about the integration here.
- New design and functionality for the Users & Roles, Manage Customer, and Cost Center pages.
- Global filters in the MultiCloud dashboards.
- Yearly aggregation on the Cost & Usage / Assets pages.
- Anomaly detection chart for each anomaly.
- Filter the "Not Allocated" cost per viewpoint in a Business Mapping.
- Marketplace classification for Azure - add the Marketplace service under the service filter and group on the CUE/Assets page
- ‘Not tagged’ value to the tag filter.
