Feb 03, 2023
01:22 PM
Users are now able to see the adjusted and unadjusted costs (raw costs) in Cloud Cost Optimization reports. This new feature is enabled for users who need the cost-transparency to see adjusted and unadjusted costs into their cloud costs using the new role: View bill adjustments.
We have added the View bill adjustments role to allow Cloud Cost Optimization administrators to grant users in their organization the permission to view the Adjustment Program page and the Bill Adjustments dimensions in the dashboards and tabular views.
NOTE: The ability to view adjusted and unadjusted costs is also available to users with the Manage organization and Manage bill adjustments roles.
For more information about viewing bill data adjustments, see Bill Data Adjustments in the Flexera One Help.
For more information about Flexera One roles, see Flexera One Roles in the Flexera One Help.
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Feb 03, 2023
01:10 PM
Flexera continues to improve support for advanced cost allocation use cases with Rule-based Dimensions. In the latest update, Rule-based dimensions now support billing center assignments to recommendations to allow cost center owners to see total potential savings on their billing centers. These recommendations can match based on the vendor_account or resource_group field.
For details about using rule-based dimensions, see Rule-based Dimensions in the Flexera One Help.
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Feb 03, 2023
12:59 PM
Microsoft recently announced Azure Savings Plans meant to allow easier purchasing and commitment to discount pricing for users with consistent Azure compute resource usage.
To help Flexera users take advantage of the new Azure Savings Plan model, we have added relevant recommendations in Cloud Cost Optimization. These recommendations allow our Cloud Cost Optimization users to see the savings they can achieve on their Azure spend, in one aggregated view, along with the other savings opportunities such as Azure RI, Unused Volumes, Idle Instances, and many more.
You can find the policy for Azure Savings Plan Recommendations in our Automation Catalog or in our GitHub repository:
To find this policy in our Automation Catalog in Flexera One, click Automation Catalog and, on the Automation Catalog page, search for Azure Savings Plan Recommendations.
To find this policy in our GitHub repository, use your web browser to navigate to https://github.com/flexera-public/policy_templates/tree/master/cost/azure/savings_plan/recommendations.
For more information about viewing your organization’s Total Potential Savings from recommendations, see Viewing Potential Savings in Flexera One Help.
For more information about the Azure Savings Plan, see Microsoft’s learning page on that topic:What is Azure savings plans for compute?
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Sep 30, 2022
11:40 AM
1 Kudo
We've released two additional API routes for configuring rule-based dimensions: allowing edits to a single rule-based dimension (RBD), or even a single rules list.
Previously, with only one API route to read/write the entire configuration covering all RBDs, any change involved uploading the entire configuration of every RBD in the org.
With these new API routes, it will be easier to write a policy that can update a single RBD, or even just one month's rule list for an RBD. It no longer has to touch the config of any other RBD.
For instance, a policy might want to populate an RBD to simulate an account tag. The policy would scrape a tag's value on all the accounts across multiple vendors, and use that mapping to generate a list of rules to populate one RBD. The policy could use the new API to write this rules list for the current month, without having to touch any other month or be concerned with any other RBD.
The API docs are updated here:
https://reference.rightscale.com/bill_analysis/
Here's a snippet from the "Rule-Based Dimensions API" section:
API The main API route, /orgs/{org}/settings/rule_based_dimensions , lets you read/write the entire rule-based dimensions JSON configuration for the org. There are also two other API routes that let you work with a subset of the config – a single rule-based dimension, or a single rules list: /orgs/{org}/settings/rule_based_dimensions/{id} /orgs/{org}/settings/rule_based_dimensions/{id}/rules/{effective_at}
And the two new routes have documentation for all their actions.
Actions on a single RBD:
Actions on a single rules list:
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Sep 29, 2022
10:59 AM
David
We do plan to bring the Potential Savings back into the Billing Centers in the future. In the meantime, you can filter your Total Potential Savings by Billing Center in the Optimization Page.
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Sep 13, 2022
04:44 PM
@yesthatallen The Stranded Servers policy will terminate any of the servers that were found stranded. This only applies to servers created within the Flexera Cloud Management module.
Here is the description from the README file
## What it does
This policy checks all Servers in Cloud Management and reports on any that have been stranded during the boot process. It provides the option to terminate any stranded servers after approval.
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Sep 13, 2022
04:37 PM
Flexera would like to announce an update to the Flexera One Automation pages. The following pages have been updated with a new look and experience.
Automation Catalog
Automation Applied Polices
Automation Incidents
Automation Templates
As well as a new look and feel following Flexera One modern UX patterns, the page has moved under a modern UI framework (React) to ensure security compliance is adhered to. With the move to React, we are leveraging modern UI framework benefits:
Ensuring security compliance with Web standards and the latest browsers
Improved UX consistency
Quality coverage increased
Improved validation and user success/error messaging to support customer interactions
Big step forward in further integrating it as part of Flexera One alongside other capabilities
Moving the codebase into the modern integration of Flexera
There are also plans to update the Automation Credentials in the Fall of 2022. We expect to be complete with the Automation Update by Dec 31st 2022.
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Sep 01, 2022
07:17 PM
1 Kudo
Flexera has released an update to the Automation and Cloud Cost Optimization solution areas to allow customers to create custom recommendations that populate with Total Potential Savings and recommendation details.
For example, a user may want to customize an existing Flexera policy or create a new policy from scratch to meet their business needs. The user can use the new policy template attributes to inform the recommendation engine to ingest their new policy incident detail. The recommendation engine will show the new policy's total potential savings and recommendation details.
Read more about this update in the Flexera Automation Documentation
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Sep 01, 2022
12:54 PM
In an effort to improve the integration with Flexera One and cloud providers, the below Policies have been enhanced with a new authentication method. The listed Policies now require a new Flexera oAuth2 Credential for connecting with Flexera Cloud Cost Optimization.
When Applying the Policies you will see a prompt to select the Flexera Automation Credential (see example below). Select the Credential created as defined in the Provider Specific Credentials for Flexera.
Example of Flexera One Credential Selection
This change only impacts the Policies of the Flexera One NAM instance (app.flexera.com). Policies of Flexera One EU instance (app.flexera.eu) already include this enhancement and are not impacted.
AWS Delete Unused Classic Load Balancers
AWS Expiring Reserved Instances
AWS GP3 Upgradeable Volumes
AWS Idle Compute Instances
AWS Old Snapshots
AWS Reserved Instances Utilization
AWS Unused IP Addresses
AWS Unused RDS Instance
AWS Unused Volumes
Azure Expiring Reserved Instances
Azure Idle Compute Instances
Azure Old Snapshots
Azure Sync Tags with Optima
Azure Unused IP Addresses
Azure Unused SQL Databases
Azure Unused Volumes
Billing Center Access Report
Billing Center Cost Anomalies
Budget Alerts
Budget Alerts by Cloud Account
Cheaper Regions
Cloud Spend Forecast - Moving Average
Flexera IAM Explicit User Roles
Low Account Usage
Low Service Usage
Monthly Actual v. Budgeted Spend Report
New Service Usage
Reserved Instance Report by Billing Center
Scheduled Report
Superseded Instances
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Aug 04, 2022
04:27 PM
1 Kudo
As we continue to improve our recent Spend Recommendations feature, we have added support for Azure Resource Groups. In this update, Recommendations are assigned to Billing Centers that are allocated to Azure Resource Groups. This allows the Cost Center owner to view Recommendations specific to the business needs to take the necessary action for savings optimization.
For additional information refer to the following topics in the Flexera One Help:
Analyzing Cloud Costs in Billing Centers
Viewing Potential Savings
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Aug 04, 2022
03:33 PM
1 Kudo
We are pleased to announce that the Cloud Cost Optimization Reserved Instances page now supports all AWS Services which support Reserved Instances. The update allows users to see the AWS Service, as well as other important details such as Utilization, Expiration date, Instance Type, Platform, and more.
List of Services included:
EC2 Compute
RDS
ElasticCache
ElasticSearch
Redshift
For related documentation, refer to Amazon Web Services Reserved Instances in the Flexera One Help.
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Jun 16, 2022
12:16 PM
1 Kudo
Flexera One administrators can now designate non-administrators to manage the Cloud Billing Centers. There are two new roles now available to allow individuals to manage the Billing Centers. These roles provide management capabilities at the Flexera One Organization level of Billing Centers and individual Billing Centers.
Key features
Manage Billing Center Allocation Rules
Create sub Billing Centers
Manage Billing Center permissions
Manage Billing Centers
Full access to configure Billing Centers and management of user access to Billing Centers. Full read access except to Bill Adjustments and registration of billing data.
Billing Center Admin
Full access to configure and management of individual Billing Centers.
Refernces:
Flexera One User Roles
Analyzing Cloud Costs in Billing Centers Analyzing Cloud Costs in Billing Centers
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Jun 09, 2022
04:26 PM
1 Kudo
Following our release of the Total Potential Savings in March we are excited to include Google Cloud Platform recommendations. The Total Potential Savings now includes AWS, Azure and Google clouds.
The release includes 5 new recommendations that calculated the total potential savings for Rate and Usage Recommendations and are allocated to your Flexera One Billing Centers.
The new recommendations are published in the Flexera One Automation Catalog and are ready for use now.
Rate Reduction Recommendation
Google Committed Use Discount Recommender
Usage Reduction Recommendations
Google Idle Persistent Disk Recommender
Google Cloud SQL Idle Instance Recommender
Google Idle IP Address Recommender
Google Idle VM Recommender
Documentation: https://docs.flexera.com/flexera/EN/Optima/ViewPotentialSavings.htm
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Jun 07, 2022
06:20 AM
1 Kudo
@durgeshsingh - These policies are for the Flexera Cloud Cost Optimization solution which is a module of Flexera One and is only available as a SaaS offering.
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Jun 06, 2022
04:21 PM
We are excited to announce we have released a new feature to identify significant changes in cloud spend. Use the Cost Anomaly Detection feature to track down the anomalous spend and take the necessary action to keep your costs in control.
Key Feature
Multi-Cloud - supports all the cloud data ingested by Flexera
Identify spikes in the upper and lower bounds of spend
Uses machine learning to understand your cloud spend patterns
Documentation: https://docs.flexera.com/flexera/EN/Optima/CostAnomaly.htm
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- Posted New Cloud Cost Optimization Role: View Bill Adjustments on Flexera One Blog. Feb 03, 2023 01:22 PM
- Posted Recommendations Can Be Assigned to Billing Centers Using Rule-based Dimensions on Flexera One Blog. Feb 03, 2023 01:10 PM
- Posted New Azure Savings Plan in Recommendations on Flexera One Blog. Feb 03, 2023 12:59 PM
- Got a Kudo for Rule-Based Dimensions: two new API routes for smaller edits. Oct 10, 2022 09:50 AM
- Posted Rule-Based Dimensions: two new API routes for smaller edits on Flexera One Blog. Sep 30, 2022 11:40 AM
- Posted Re: Aggregation of Rate and Usage Reduction Recommendations on Flexera One Blog. Sep 29, 2022 10:59 AM
- Posted Aggregation of Rate and Usage Reduction Recommendations on Flexera One Blog. Sep 28, 2022 03:20 PM
- Posted Re: Deprecation of Cloud Management Policies on Cloud Management Platform Release Blog. Sep 13, 2022 04:44 PM
- Posted A new look and experience for Flexera One Automation on Flexera One Blog. Sep 13, 2022 04:37 PM
- Got a Kudo for Creating custom spend recommendations for additional saving opportunities. Sep 07, 2022 12:30 PM
- Posted Creating custom spend recommendations for additional saving opportunities on Flexera One Blog. Sep 01, 2022 07:17 PM
- Posted Deprecation of Cloud Management Policies on Cloud Management Platform Release Blog. Sep 01, 2022 04:21 PM
- Posted Flexera Automation Policies enhanced with new authentication method - Breaking Change on Flexera One Blog. Sep 01, 2022 12:54 PM
- Got a Kudo for Reserved Instances Now Include all AWS Services. Aug 08, 2022 11:59 PM
- Got a Kudo for Total Potential Savings Support for Azure Resource Groups. Aug 08, 2022 11:58 PM
- Posted Total Potential Savings Support for Azure Resource Groups on Flexera One Blog. Aug 04, 2022 04:27 PM
- Posted Reserved Instances Now Include all AWS Services on Flexera One Blog. Aug 04, 2022 03:33 PM
- Tagged Deprecation of Cloud Management Policies on Cloud Management Platform Release Blog. Jul 25, 2022 12:55 PM
- Got a Kudo for New User Role to Manage Cloud Billing Centers. Jun 28, 2022 04:11 AM
- Posted New User Role to Manage Cloud Billing Centers on Flexera One Blog. Jun 16, 2022 12:16 PM