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Jul 01, 2020

Custom dashboards have been a great way for customers to centralize data and track costs. However, until now these were only viewable by the user who created them. The ability to share these dashboards has been one of our most requested features and ...

Oct 18, 2019

Detecting cloud cost anomalies early is one of the easiest ways to save to money. However, tracking down these anomalies can be tricky. From combing through millions of lines of data in Excel to manually monitoring your company’s cloud costs in every...

Jun 05, 2019

Compute instance costs often take priority when looking for ways to save money. But optimizing your storage volumes also can significantly decrease your cloud spend. In this article, you will learn how to use Optima to view specific AWS S3 volumes to...

May 14, 2019

Managing your cloud footprint can feel like a full-time job. Luckily, with Optima, you can take advantage of our comprehensive policy platform to set guardrails around your infrastructure. Our most popular policy is called Unattached Volumes. Upon c...

May 03, 2019

Reserved instances (RIs) are coupons you can purchase from AWS for specific services. I’ll be focusing on EC2 compute instances in this post. These coupons are promises to AWS committing you to pay for either 1 or 3 years in return receiving a discou...

Nov 05, 2019

Hey Alex, This is possible via a script utilizing the Optima API, I will contact you privately with more information.

Oct 23, 2019

Hey Alex, This documentation will show you how to pull that information. Let me know if you run into any issues!

Apr 05, 2019

Hey jfaria,In order to apply a policy, your account needs to have the "policy_manager" role. You can find out more about user roles here.

Apr 02, 2019

Optima uses two primary data sources for helping you manage costs:Bill data - Bill information is collected from your public cloud provider to enable an accurate view of all of your costs across your accounts and servicesUsage data - Usage data is co...

Apr 02, 2019

Optima does this through Billing Centers. Billing Centers provides a way for users to logically group costs, using either cloud accounts or tags as the mechanism to drive those costs into the appropriate groups. The purpose of creating these Billing ...

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