Release Notes for week of August 5, 2019
New Policies AWS Unencrypted S3 Buckets checks all S3 buckets in the AWS account and reports on any that do not have default encryption set, allowing the user to set encryption settings for the bucket...
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Release Notes for week of July 29, 2019
Changes to Existing Policies AWS Instance CloudWatch Utilization now supports Windows instances as well if Cloudwatch is configured appropriately (see the readme for configuration details).AWS Reserve...
Release Notes for week of July 22, 2019
New Policies Azure VMs Not Using Managed Disks checks all Azure VMs and reports on any that are not using Managed Disks, which are the latest offering from Azure and are much easier to manage.AWS S3 B...
Release Notes for week of July 8, 2019
New Features Cloud workflow now supports JWT tokens when making http calls so that any API that uses JWT can be leveraged when remediating policy incidents or automating cloud resource actions.
Release Notes for week of July 1, 2019
New Policies AWS Instance Scheduled Events checks for any scheduled events on EC2 instances that could cause operational issues.
Release Notes for week of June 24, 2019
New Policies Superseded Instances checks for instances running on instance types that have been superseded by newer, usually improved, instance types. Changes to Existing Policies AWS Instance CloudW...
Release Notes for week of June 17, 2019
New Policies Azure Instance Utilization using Log Analytics uses performance metrics from Azure Log Analytics from the last 30 days to identify underutilized instances. Unapproved instance types rep...
Release Notes for week of June 10, 2019
New Policies AWS Reserved Instance Recommendations checks the AWS Cost Explorer API and reports on any RI recommendations with potential savings above a specified threshold. Azure Reserved Instance ...
Release Notes for week of May 27, 2019
New Policies Stranded Servers reports on any servers that are stranded in booting so that they can be repaired or terminated to reduce waste. Changes to Existing Policies Cheaper Regions policy now re...
Release Notes for week of May 20, 2019
New Policies AWS Unencrypted RDS Instances checks all RDS instances and reports on any that are unencrypted.AWS Public Accessible RDS Instances checks all RDS instances and reports on any that are pub...
May 10, 2019 - Release Notes
New Policies AWS Unused ECS Clusters checks all ECS clusters to determine if any are unused (no registered instances, no running tasks, no pending tasks, no active services) and offers the option to d...
April 26, 2019 - Release Notes
Changes to Existing Policies Scheduled Report - added more dimensions to slice the graph by, added ability to report on child billing centers, added currency symbol support. Learn about updating polic...
April 19, 2019 - Release Notes
New Policies AWS Delete Unused Classic Load Balancers identifies any unused CLBs and allows them to be deleted after user approval. Cheaper Regions reports on usage in regions where there is a less ...
April 3, 2019 - Release Notes
Changes in Behavior Policy incidents are now archived after 30 days if there is nothing actionable and the incident is terminated or resolved. Archived incidents can still be found in the API if addit...
Managing multiple clouds with Cloud Management Platform
So, you’re migrating to the cloud. Your company is now among the 94 percent of organizations that are operating with in some kind of cloud, according to the RightScale 2019 State of the Cloud Report f...
Schedule your instances with a policy
Using the Policy Engine, you can schedule server resources to start and stop at specific times. Maybe a workload only needs to be running during business hours (M-F, 8-4). With the Scheduled Instance ...
