- Kubernetes overview report
Kubernetes costs and usage visibility is critical for organisations while planning for chargeback/show back workflows or identifying cost or usage spikes in the environment. CloudHealth brings together key reports in the platform to a central location with Kubernetes Overview. To access Kubernetes Overview report on the platform, navigate to Reports > Containers > Kubernetes Overview
- Tag Management Reporting
Tags help you associate cost, usage, performance, and other metrics of your assets with specific business groups, and we’ve been hearing from our customers that tag management is a real challenge in their organizations. While many organizations have a tagging governance strategy in place, it can be difficult to understand what tag usage looks like across your multi-cloud environment especially when we are talking 10,000, 50,000, or even 150,000 unique tag keys! To get started with Tag Management today by navigating to Setup>Governance>Tag Management
- AWS Savings Plans Recommendations – Only for Optimise and Ignite customers*
You can explore different Compute Savings Plan commitment level scenarios and see how they might play out in your environment. Now, in addition to conducting this analysis at the billing family level (which is the recommended approach to realize the most savings), you can also conduct this analysis at an individual account level which can empower the teams within your business to make their own Savings Plan purchases. By clicking “Generate Recommendations'' CloudHealth will re-generate the recommendations for the accounts you’ve selected. We’ll also save that data there for you until you want to refresh it again and denote its age in the “days'' column
Please submit a ticket or reach out to us if the above is of interest and we can schedule in a call to run through this.
Cloudhealth Academy Training
By clicking on the top right corner of the Cloudhealth platform, you could access Cloudhealth academy.
- The introductory courses will give you the basic skills for using CloudHealth to analyse and take action on your data.
- View short, self-paced videos covering AWS, Azure, Google, Data Centre and Containers.
If you’re having issues accessing these training videos, please reach out to me.
Support Handout
For any requests or issues you may have around Cost Optimisation or the tool itself, please feel free to raise a ticket with our service desk, our handout document is attached to this article.
CloudHealth IAM Role
Occasionally AWS and/or CloudHealth release new features that require adjustments to the permissions required by CloudHealth to access the target cost optimized AWS account. Updating these permissions allows new features and capabilities to be leveraged by the customer to give greater control and/or visibility of their cloud environments.
The attached guide will help you through the steps required to update the CloudHealth IAM role in each AWS account in order to take advantage of the new features and gain enhanced visibility of your AWS cloud environment.
Summary of the steps
If using CloudFormation:
1. Select the existing CloudHealth CloudFormation stack
2. Update it by pointing to the new provided CloudFormation template version
3. Wait a few moments for the update to complete
If updating manually:
1. Select the existing CloudHealth IAM role
2. Update the policy attached to it by copy/pasting the provided code
3. Save the changes
CloudHealth Agent
We also would like to highlight the importance of installing CloudHealth agents to collect additional performance metrics which can maximise the accuracy of these reports and recommendations, particularly related to EC2 instance rightsizing.
The guide for this can be found: http://documents.aws-bytes.co.uk/cloudhealth/Agent/CloudHealth_Agent_Installation_Guide.html
Tagging AWS Resources
Tags are an essential way to group assets together allowing organisations to analyse, measure and report with meaningful results. For example, finance may want a monthly breakdown of costs by department; operations may need a usage breakdown by project or owner; and engineering may want a performance breakdown by application per environment. Having multiple ways to organise infrastructure is pivotal to enabling users with different needs to manage and make effective use of their cloud infrastructure.
Governance policies can be utilised to identify assets that do not conform with your internal tagging standards. For example, if any asset is missing the tag ‘Environment’, send notification and execute a lambda function to tag the asset. If any asset is untagged, alert its owner and stop the instance.
Renewal Contract
We are required to renew an AWS cost optimization contract for our customers who have been with us for over a year. The renewal of this contract ensures a consistent delivery of our service and is required to meet legal requirements. There will be no added financial fees for this renewal contact.
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