Cloud Cost Optimization now allows cloud spend to be allocated using Azure Resource Group(s).  With this change Billing Center Owners can create allocation rules on one or more Azure Resource Groups to view and optimize their Azure spend by Azure subscriptions, tags, and resource groups.   Reference: Cost Allocation Rules for Azure Resource Groups ... View more

In Flexera One, the Cloud Cost Optimization users are now able to share a configured tabular view with other Cloud Cost Optimization users.  The update includes adding a share button to the tabular page.  When clicking the icon the current URL is copied to the clipboard.  Once you copied the URL you are able to paste the URL into other tools such as email or chat clients to send to other users.   How to use: Create a tabular view with the dimensions, date, usage, and filter parameters Click the share icon to place the generated URL into the clipboard Paste the generated URL into your email or chat clients to send to another user. Example of tabular view with the share icon         ... View more

Flexera is pleased to announce recently added roles for managing the cloud spend.  These new roles allow Flexera One Cloud Cost Optimization stakeholders access to manage custom dimensions, rule-based dimensions, and bill adjustments. Role Name Role Description Manage custom dimensions Full access to manage custom tags in Cloud Cost Optimization. Manage rule-based dimensions Full access to manage rule-based dimensions in Cloud Cost Optimization. Manage bill adjustments Full access to manage bill adjustments in Cloud Cost Optimization.   References: Flexera One User Roles Access Management ... View more

Flexera One Automation allows you to create an AWS STS role across multiple AWS accounts with the same role name and permissions. How to create an AWS STS credential for two or more AWS accounts using the aws_account_number field is further explained in the following product documentation topics: Authorization   AWS STS Multi-Account Credential Usage   AWS STS Multi-Account Credential Usage Troubleshooting   This update improves the configuration and maintenance of  AWS STS Cross Account Roles to run Policies on many AWS accounts.   ... View more

New Policy Templates Google Recommendations - Exposes a number of recommendations to identify potential saving opportunities for Google Cloud Changes to Existing Policy Templates AWS Reserved Instance Recommendations - Include support for all Reserved Instance Types and Linked Account Scope.  A single policy can be applied to see all Reserved Instance Recommendations for each AWS account. AWS Savings Plan Recommendations - Includes support for Linked Account Scope to understand which AWS accounts to apply the savings plans Azure Reserved Instance Recommendations - Include support for all Reservation types to understand the full potential savings using reservations  Azure Unused Volumes - Improved scale for a large number of volumes found in the Azure tenant ... View more

We are pleased to announce that the Flexera CMP Self Service module now supports the use of Governance Credentials for provisioning cloud resources using the Self Service Plugins.    This update allows the developer to create a Cloud Application Template (CAT) to use the Self Service Plugins with native credentials and connect cloud applications to any public-facing API.   This feature is available today to all Flexera CMP customers. Example for launching an AWS EC2 Instance using the Governance Credential     References: Cloud Application Templates Self Service Authentication https://github.com/flexera/flexera-plugins ... View more

We are pleased to announce the Cloud Cost Billing Configuration and Custom Tags pages have each been given their own individual pages under the Administration > Cloud Settings. Administration > Cloud Settings > Billing Configuration Administration > Cloud Settings > Custom Tags This added benefit now means that you can favorite each page individually for ease of use. The Flexera One Cloud Settings navigation update will be available to all customers in early October. ... View more

Platform Changes The FROM email address in the Policy Incident emails changed to noreply@flexera.com from noreply-governance@rightscale.com New Policy Templates Azure Hybrid Use Benefit for Linux - The policy identifies all Linux server instances (SLES and RHEL) that are not currently using Azure Hybrid Use Benefit. It raises an incident for all applicable VMs not currently using AHUB, which once approved, will enable AHUB on all identified instances. Azure MCA Reserved Instances Recommendations - This new policy provides recommendations for Azure Reservations billed under Azure CSP MCA. Changes to Existing Policy Templates Schedule Reports - Fixed issue with top 10 cost categories when there is no data yet for the current month. Superseded Instances - Corrected duplicate column name AWS Unused Volumes - 1) Fixed issue that may prevent an AWS snapshot to be created before terminating a volume. 2) Improved action error handling and debug logging. 3) Add a parameter to override the Flexera One org ID to use when querying Optima for cases when the project is not in the same org where the AWS bill is registered in Optima AWS Unused IP Addresses - 1) Improved action error handling and debug logging. 2) corrected cost for total estimated savings AWS Old Snapshots - 1) Improved action error handling and debug logging. 2) Add a parameter to override the Flexera One org ID to use when querying Optima for cases when the project is not in the same org where the AWS bill is registered in Optima Budget Alerts by Cloud Account - 1) Fixed AWS account name lookup bug that leads to an error, 2) Refactored Billing Center index call to return Billing Centers the user has access to, 3) Fixed the budget column heading ... View more

New Policy Templates Policy Updates Be informed of updated policy templates in the Policy Catalog. This policy template identifies the version of all the policies that are applied in an account and compares them to the version of the respective policy template in the catalog. It further creates an incident providing details on when the policy was last updated in the catalog and the link to README and CHANGELOG files. Changes to Existing Policy Templates Azure Unused IP Addresses - Includes Estimated Monthly Savings for each resource in the policy incident and Total Estimated Monthly Savings. AWS Unused RDS Instance - Includes Estimated Monthly Savings for each resource in the policy incident and Total Estimated Monthly Savings. AWS Old Snapshots - Changed Deregister Image parameter default to No to prevent accidental deletion of AMI Snapshots. AWS Cost Policy Templates - Identity the AWS Account by adding the AWS Account ID to the Policy Incident summary. AWS Policy Templates - Update all AWS policy templates to evaluate the allowed regions to support AWS Service Control Policy (SCP). AWS Unused IP Address - Remove IP Addresses from the incident report that have an association with an instance. Azure Reserved Instances Utilization - Resolve false positive reports for RI Utilization. Low Service Usage - Resolve ability to apply the policy template. SaaS Manager Policy Templates - Added support for EU Zone instance of the Policy Manager. Google Committed Discount - Fixed issue to support multiple zones. ... View more

Changes to Existing Policies AWS Old Snapshots included Estimated Monthly Savings for each resource in the policy incident and Total Estimated Monthly Savings. AWS Delete Unused Classic Load Balancers included Estimated Monthly Savings for each resource in the policy incident and Total Estimated Monthly Savings. Azure Idle Compute Instances included Estimated Monthly Savings for each resource in the policy incident and Total Estimated Monthly Savings. AWS Unused IP Addresses included Total Estimated Monthly Savings in the policy incident. No Recent Snapshots include running and operational states when searching for instances with no recent snapshots Billing Center Cost Anomaly fixed empty table cells in incident Google Rightsize CloudSQL Instances fix error related to getting CPU metrics Azure Hybrid Use Benefit for Windows Server - removed Windows Client/Windows 10 VM's from the incident. AWS Inefficient Instance Utilization using CloudWatch - Fix issue with duplicate records displayed in the incident ... View more

New Policies Azure - Schedule Instance allows you to schedule start and stop times for your Azure virtual machine. Google - Schedule Instance allows you to schedule start and stop times for your Google instances. Changes to Existing Policies AWS Unused Volumes included Estimated Monthly Savings for each resource in the policy incident and Total Estimated Monthly Savings. Azure Unused Volumes included Estimated Monthly Savings for each resource in the policy incident and Total Estimated Monthly Savings. Azure Rightsize SQL Databases All AWS Policies - fix issue where the policy failed because of AWS Service Control Policy region restrictions. ... View more

New Features The Policy Manager has a new feature to allow users to run actions on selected resources within a Policy Incident. The user also can select an action to run automatically when the incident is created. Read more. Review the Readme file of the policy templates that interest you for additional details as it pertains this new feature. New Policies AWS - Unused IP Addresses identify unused AWS EC2 IP Addresses (EIP) and allows the user to delete the IP address. AWS - Untagged Resources identifies AWS resources that do not have a tag and allow the user to create a new tag on the resource AWS - Schedule Instance allows the user to stop and start an AWS instance on a schedule. Azure - Untagged Resources identifies Azure resources that do not have a tag and allow the user to create a new tag on the resource. Azure - Unused IP Addresses identify unused Azure IP Addresses and allow the user to delete the IP address. Google - Unlabeled Resources identifies Google Cloud resources that do not have a label and allow the user to create a new label on the resource. ... View more

New Policies SaaS Manager - SaaS App User Report by Category   uses Flexera SaaS Manager to identify users entitled to SaaS apps within a specified department. Budget Alerts by Cloud Account   uses Optima to determine if a Cloud Account has exceeded its monthly cost budget. AWS Service Control Policy Audit   audits whether a named policy is applied across all AWS Accounts in the organization ... View more

New Policies Azure Sync Tags with Optima   identifies all Azure tag keys that are not being used as custom dimensions in Flexera Optima. ServiceNow Inactive Approvers   identifies approver users in ServiceNow that have not approved any requests in the past   n   days. ... View more