New capabilities and enhancements in Cloud Cost Optimization dashboards and billing centers
Note:These features and enhancements are available with Cloud Cost Optimization.
Flexera One has released significant enhancements to Cloud Cost Optimization dashboards and billing centers to improve the usability and functionality for viewing and analyzing cloud spend.
New capabilities
The Cloud Cost Optimization dashboards and billing centers contain the following new capabilities:
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Added the Rate Reduction Savings dashboard to show savings from rate reduction optimization. To see the different values with the spend, you can use the following new metrics: List Price, Savings, and Savings Percent. These metrics show details on the savings and savings percentage for commitment purchases such as Savings Plans and Reserved Instances. |
Note:The new metrics are only available for AWS. This feature will be implemented for other vendors in future releases.
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Added the ability for the Billing Center users to see their potential savings from recommendations in the Billing Center. |
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Added the ability for the dashboard designers to create and maintain a single dashboard at the Organization level that is also available at the Billing Center level. This feature enables the designers to create one dashboard that can be viewed and maintained at the organization level. |
Note:As part of these changes, the Billing Center Tabular View has moved from the root Billing Centers page (Cloud > Cost Optimization > Billing Centers) to the main Cloud menu as a separate submenu item Tabular View (Cloud > Cost Optimization > Tabular View). The Tabular View remains on both the parent and child billing centers. For more information, see Tabular View in the Flexera One Help.
Enhancements to existing functionality
The Cloud Cost Optimization dashboards have the following enhancements:
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Improved user interface to align with rest of Flexera One. |
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Renamed dashboard reports to widgets. |
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Improved dashboard layout editor—You can now place the dashboard widgets anywhere within the dashboard to visualize and analyze your cloud spend. |
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Added the View Anomalies link—You can now identify significant changes in your cloud spend and take necessary actions to keep your costs under control from the Dashboard Table View. |
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Added the copy dashboard link—You can now share a direct link to your dashboard with other users by clicking the copy dashboard link. The dashboard link is copied to your clipboard and you can now paste it into an email, a text message, or anywhere else where you would like to paste the link. |
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Improved usability of the dashboard filter widget—You can now scale down the data to your exact specifications. |
Note:As part of these changes, the option to view the AWS Blended costs has been removed from the dashboards and the Tabular View.
For more information, see the following Flexera One Help topics: