New features

  • In addition to monthly, quarterly, and biannual calendar periods, the Optima date range calendar now has an additional tab for daily granularity, as seen below. When daily is selected, users can choose a custom range of up to 31 days in the calendar. Daily data is available in Tabular View and all Dashboard reports except the resource list, which will support a daily calendar period at a future date.

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New features

  • Custom tag-based dimensions can now be added and updated directly by users in the UI which allow a user to specify tags used for filtering and grouping Billing Center cost data. You can find them under Settings -> Custom Tags in Optima.

New features

New features

  • Optima now supports Azure CSP for the latest cost features including Tabular View and Custom Dashboards. You can get started with CSP in Optima by following our guide.

New Features

  • Custom dashboards can now be created in billing centers, giving you complete control over what costs you see and how they are laid out within your billing centers. You can pick from various visualizations of data and filter the data to show only particular costs. Custom dashboards are scoped to the user, so any changes you make won't affect other users in your organization. Get started today by reading the documentation optima-custom-dashboard-example.png

New Features

  • Billing centers can now be created in a hierarchical structure, allowing you to break down your costs incrementally into their component pieces. Users can be granted access to billing data at any level of the hierarchy and perform their own analysis of the costs relevant to their area of responsibility. Get started with hierarchical billing centers to create more powerful breakdowns of your multi-cloud costs.

New Features

  • In Tabular view, you can now choose to show percent change for each data cell, giving you a quick way to identify large changes in spend month over month. To show/hide the percentages, use the Show button -- the tooltip explains the logic behind the coloring of the percentages.

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Changes in Behavior

  • The Reserved Instance Details page under in Instance Analyzer has been deprecated. The new Reserved Instances top-level page contains a more complete and accurate list of your AWS Reserved Instances

New Features

  • In Tabular view, the dimensions can now be dragged-and-dropped to rearrange them

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Changes in Behavior

  • The Reserved Instance Details page under in Instance Analyzer has been deprecated. The new Reserved Instances top-level page contains a more complete and accurate list of your AWS Reserved Instances

New Features

  • Added region as a new dimension available in Tabular view and in the Billing Center Overview page.

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New Features

  • New and improved Dashboard page has been released -- new features include the ability to slice by different dimensions, improved performance, support for showing amortized costs, consistency with billing center data, and a spend-by-day line chart. One important change is that permissions to the data shown in Dashboard are now determined by billing center permissions, instead of by access to RightScale accounts. Also, the new Dashboard does not show which accounts are linked to which RightScale accounts, and for each cloud account only the ID is shown, not the cloud account name.

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New Features

  • Added the ability to export Excel files from tabular view, providing for exports that work in various localized currencies through Excel.

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Changes in Behavior

  • For customers that are part of an AWS Enterprise Discount Program, those discounts are now automatically calculated and incorporated into cost reporting in Optima throughout the month. To enable these features tailored to your agreement, please contact RightScale support.

New Features

  • Added the year to the tabular view column header to make it easier to tell which month you're seeing when looking at long time periods..

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  • The top-level Tabular View is now available to all users (it was previously only available to users with access to all org data). Now users with access to individual billing centers can also use this feature as a rollup of information across all billing centers they have access to.

Changes in Behavior

  • The default cost type is now amortized, unblended for new users to the system.

New Features

  • Added a new date picker for Tabular view in Billing to provide additional controls over the granularity and timeframe shown in the table.

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  • Recommendations in billing centers can now be ignored, helping to reduce the noise by providing a way for non-applicable recommendations to be hidden for users. Users with the billing_center_admin or enterprise_manager roles are able to ignore and restore recommendations.

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Changes in Behavior

  • When in a billing center, changing the breakdown dimension dropdown no longer resets the page to the current month -- the currently selected month remains selected.