Vantage Changelog

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Product Updates

• AWS FsX active resource: AWS FsX file systems are now synced as active resources.
• EBS throughput: Volume Throughput is added as a field in EBS Active Resource pages.
• Remediation steps for Cost Recommendations: Cost recommendations now include actionable remediation steps, such as CLI commands or links to additional resources.
• Audit logs: Audit logs are now available in Vantage so that account administrators can view user actions taken on Cost Reports and Virtual Tags.
• Additional sortable columns: You can now sort by Resource, Account, and Type in Resource Reports.
• ClickHouse entityName: ClickHouse costs now include entityName, represented as a tag.
• MSP invoicing: Invoicing for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) is in Private Preview. This feature allows MSPs to automate generation and distribution of invoices to their end customers. See the release blog for details.
• Nested tag report drilldown: On Cost Reports, you can drill down into tag values to view nested tags and their associated costs.
• Quarterly date binning: You can now bin Cost Reports by quarter (in addition to other existing binning options, like day and month).
• New recommendation: A new recommendation was added for S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval optimization. This recommendation identifies S3 buckets using Standard Storage without recent access patterns. The recommendation suggests moving qualifying buckets to Glacier Instant Retrieval for cost savings of up to 82%.
• Autopilot date picker: The date dropdown on the Autopilot coverage page is updated so that you can select a full date range, rather than just an individual month.
• Databricks system tables: The Databricks integration is updated to use Databricks system tables for more accurate, granular cost data.

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Kubernetes Agent Updates

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API Updates

• Audit logs endpoint: The new /audit_logs endpoint is available to programmatically return audit logs from your account.
• New Vantage MCP version: A new version of the Vantage MCP is available. This version includes additional parameter support, such as the ability to recognize report settings and groupings on the query-costs tool. Support is also available for SSO login on the remote MCP.
• Terraform updates: With last month’s release of custom columns in Resource Reports, the vantage_resource_report resource is updated to include a columns parameter. The vantage_resource_report_columns data source is available for retrieving available columns for a specific resource type in Resource Reports.

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Product Updates

• Incomplete costs on Financial Commitment Reports: A tooltip was added to Financial Commitment Reports with hourly binning to indicate when costs are incomplete and still processing.
• Budget screen UI updates: Tooltips have been added to the Budget Hierarchy page to indicate what each value means.
• Remote MCP: Vantage now offers a remote MCP server to let AI agents access cloud cost data, with no infrastructure management required.
• Tags confirmation screen: A new confirmation box is added to the Tags screen to prevent loss of unsaved changes when a user attempts to navigate away from the page.
• Filter UI update: An update was made to the where section of a report filter for improved dropdown usability by auto-focusing the search input when selecting from large filterable lists.
• Show/hide previous period: You can now show or hide the previous period on Cost Reports. A new toggle is displayed on the report date picker.
• Active Resources and Resource Report updates: The following updates were made to update Resource Reports and Active Resources.
  • You can now filter by a tag name substring using the contains and does not contain filters on a Resource Report.
  • The dashboard widget for Resource Reports now shows a tooltip indicating the accrued costs are from the past 30 days.
  • AWS Backup Vault Recovery Points and AWS FSx Volumes are now available as Active Resources.
  • Stopped EC2 instances are now available as Active Resources. State now appears as a report column to determine if the instance is running or stopped.
  • Vantage now supports ad-hoc downloads of any Resource Report, allowing users to export filtered views without saving them first.
  • You can now customize which columns are displayed in your Resource Reports, such as resource-specific metadata fields, as well as arrange the columns in any order.
• MSP RBAC enhancements: Two enhancements were released for Managed Service Provider (MSP) access controls:
  • Role Based Access Control (RBAC) is now available for MSP Managed Accounts.
  • Inherited roles are available for Management Users who enter into Managed Accounts via the Management Account.

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Kubernetes Agent Updates

• The agent now collects Node and PVC labels for additional reporting metrics.
• With Persistent Metrics Recovery, resource metrics are retained when the upload endpoint is unreachable.
• Support was added for the following options in the Kubernetes agent configuration:
  • dnsConfig: specifies the pod’s DNS configuration
  • collectPVCLabels: optionally enable the collection of PVC labels

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API Updates

• Billing rules parameter: The sql_query parameter is available on the /billing_rules endpoint and supports creating custom billing rules for MSP customers.
• Terraform updates: The following Terraform updates are available:
  • vantage_billing_rule resource and vantage_billing_rules data source are now available to support the MSP custom billing rules feature.

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Product Updates

• Hourly granularity for Financial Commitment Reports: You can now view Financial Commitment Reports at an hourly granularity.
• SQL Billing Engine: MSP customers now can create billing rules via the SQL Billing Engine, allowing for any custom logic on billing data on both Vantage-schema data and AWS Cost and Usage data.
• EKS extended support recommendations: Vantage now provides recommendations for both EKS clusters currently incurring Extended Support charges and clusters that will incur costs within the next three months.
• Updated AWS rightsizing and idle recommendations: Coverage for rightsizing and idle recommendations has now been extended to EC2, RDS, EBS, ECS, Lambda, and Auto-Scaling Groups. Each new recommendation includes 10+ contextual usage metrics, up to three instance-level optimization suggestions, projections on savings, migration effort, and future utilization metrics.
• Provider Summary widget now links to filtered Cost Report: In the Provider Summary widget in the Overview page, provider names are now clickable and will bring you to a filtered Cost Report for the selected provider.
• Ability to Hide Annotations: You can now hide annotations on a Cost Report.
• Integration tokens added to integration URL: You can now obtain your Integration Token from the URL of any integration you are viewing in the Vantage console.
• Additional metadata added to Cost Alerts: Alerts for a percentage-based Cost Alert will now include metrics about both percentage and dollar increases to provide additional context to the alert.
• Update to small values display: Cost Report Y-Axis will no longer include negative numbers for small values.
• Cost Report bars with incomplete costs: The bars for days with incomplete data from providers will now be displayed as gray in Cost Report bar charts to distinguish from complete costs or forecasts.
• Auto-Scaling Groups added to active resources: AWS AutoScaling Groups (ASGs) are now available as active resources.
• focus.vantage.sh: The new micro-site, focus.vantage.sh, is a free web-based tool that converts cost CSVs or PDF invoices from select Cloud, AI, and SaaS providers into CSVs in the FinOps FOCUS 1.1 format.

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Kubernetes Agent Updates

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API Updates

• Business Metrics API: the /business_metrics endpoint now supports segment tokens to assign business metrics for unit calculation.
• The following updates were made to the Terraform provider. The latest version is version 0.1.61
  • vantage-integration module now includes an optional cur_report_time_unit attribute for adjusting report granularity.

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Product Updates

• Anomaly Detection with resource attribution: Vantage will associate anomalies with individual resource ARNs to enable faster root-cause analysis.
• Flexible match filter operation: The Flexible Match filter operator ignores casing, whitespace, underscores, and hyphenation to match all variants of a string when performing a look-up for a value.
• FOCUS-compatible exports: You can now export your cloud cost and usage data in the FinOps Foundation’s open-source FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) format.
• Filter by human-readable name: If a resource has a human-readable name in Vantage, you can now search for that in addition to the resource ARN when using filters in reports.
• Cost Report legend human-readable names: Human-readable names now replace the ARN of a resource in the legend when viewing a Cost Report.
• EFS in active resources: EFS has been added as an active resource.
• Business Metric sources: The source of your Business Metric—either Datadog, CloudWatch, or CSV—will now be displayed on the main Business Metrics page.
• Google OAuth: Google Workspace is now available for SSO authentication.
• Previous Period Usage Metrics: When you view a Usage-Based Cost Report, the table view will now show previous period usage in addition to previous period cost.
• Azure VM active resources: Azure VMs are now available as active resources.
• Units added to active resource fields: Units have been added to active resource fields, where applicable, such as EBS Size or RDS Allocated Storage.

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Kubernetes Agent Updates

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API Updates

• Data Export API update: New schema parameter is available in the /costs/data_exports endpoint
• Anomaly Alerts: The Anomaly Alerts endpoint now returns the resource that drove the anomaly, if applicable.
• Business Metrics: The /business_metrics endpoint now has new objects for datadog_metric_fields and cloudwatch_fields to programmatically configure Datadog and CloudWatch business metric integrations.
• The following updates were made to the Terraform provider. The latest version is version 0.1.60
  • vantage_business_metric resource now has additional optional attributes for cloudwatch_fields and datadog_metric_fields.
  • The vantage_cost_alert resource is now available.

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Product Updates

• Vantage MCP Server: The Vantage MCP Server is now generally available, which allows you to interact with Vantage through LLM tools.
• Custom Cost Alerts: The Cost Alerts feature automatically detects and notifies you of cost changes—whether by percentage or fixed amount—across customizable time periods, like day-over-day, month-over-month, or quarter-over-quarter.
• Twilio integration: Vantage now integrates with Twilio as its latest cost provider.
• Datadog query syntax: You can now use Datadog queries directly within Vantage to import Business Metrics.
• Unit Cost export: You can now export Unit Costs from Cost Reports from the Vantage console.
• App integrations: The connection workflows for Microsoft Teams and Slack have moved from the Notifications page to the Settings page in the App integrations section.
• Jira budget display fix: A fix was made to the Budget Alerts screen so that if a Jira alert is set for a budget, this now displays for configured alerts.
• EBS volume unattached times: EBS volume attach/detach times are available when querying EBS volume active resources.
• MSP updates: The following updates were released for the Vantage for MSPs feature:
  • Optional start and end dates are added to adjustment billing rules.
  • The Retiering adjustment billing rule now has an option for whether to include Free Tier.
  • You can now use the Apply to All functionality to add a new billing rule to all new and existing Managed Accounts.
  • A new button for deleting a billing rule from a Managed Account is available on the Managed Account’s billing rule settings.
• Azure amortization: You can now switch between viewing your actual costs and your amortized costs in Azure Cost Reports.
• Snowflake query tags: Snowflake query tags that are written in JSON will now be parsed accordingly and turned into tag key/values.
• Savings Plan Covered Spend renamed: Savings Plan Covered Spend has been renamed in reports to Savings Plan Discounted Spend in Financial Commitment Reports.
• ARN names: ARN names have been added to EBS and CloudFront. When viewing a CloudFront distribution in a Cost Report, the domain is displayed instead of the shortened ARN for easier reading. In Cost Reports and Active Resource views, when a human-readable name is available for an EBS volume, the ARN is replaced for a more readable experience.
• CloudWatch metrics for EBS: you can now view VolumeReadBytes, VolumeWriteBytes, and VolumeQueueLength directly within Resources Reports for EBS volumes.
• New report placeholder: The default text in the Save Report modal for Cost Reports has been updated—you no longer need to delete “Untitled Report” before entering a title.
• Autopilot managed service graphs: You can now hover over the charts within Autopilot.
• Updated UI for Business Metrics: Imported business metrics data is now added to the Imported Metrics tab.
• EC2 termination recommendations: More specific language is added to the Recommendations tab regarding Active Resources for EC2 instances that are recommended to be terminated.
• Multiple label grouping values for Datadog Business Metrics: You can now group by multiple label values for Datadog Business Metrics.
• Unit standardization for hours: Vantage will now automatically correct various forms of the “Hours” usage units across providers, such as “Hrs” or “hr” to enhance group-by experiences for usage types that use hours.

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Kubernetes Agent Updates

• Updated Efficiency Calculations: Kubernetes efficiency calculations will now be prorated based on node uptime for a more accurate calculation.

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API Updates

• Dashboards endpoint: On the /dashboards endpoint, you can now pass an empty string to the date_interval parameter. In addition, end_date is now an optional parameter.
• Costs endpoint: The workspace_token and page parameters are now available on the /costs endpoint.
• Anomaly filtering: Filtering (e.g., for category or provider) parameters have been added to the /anomaly_alerts endpoint.
• Cost Alerts endpoints: New cost_alerts endpoints are available to support the newly released Cost Alerts feature.
• Unit Costs: The new /unit_costs endpoint lets you retrieve the Unit Costs for a Cost Report.
• Updates to Billing Rules API: The new parameters start_date, end_date, and apply_to_all are available for additional flexibility when creating billing rules.
• Data Export: New /costs/data_exports endpoint and /data_exports/{data_export_token} endpoint available to initiate a CSV export of a Cost Report, and check on the status of an export to retrieve the URL to download the report.
• Pagination in tags API endpoint: Results in the /tags endpoint are now paginated for a better experience when fetching large list of tag keys or tag values.
• The following updates were made to the Terraform provider. The latest version is version 0.1.56:
  • vantage_cost_alerts resource was added.
  • vantage_billing_rule resource was updated to include start_period, end_period, and apply_to_all.

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Product Updates

• cur.vantage.sh console integration: cur.vantage.sh integrates with the Vantage console. Navigate to descriptions for subcategory costs on Cost Reports and service descriptions on Resource Reports.
• New cost provider integrations: Support is now available for Temporal and ClickHouse Cloud costs in the console. Support has also been updated for the GitHub integration to use the new Enhanced Billing API.
• Virtual Tags updates: The following Virtual Tags updates were released this month:
  • Nested Virtual Tags allow you to use the filter criteria from existing Virtual Tags in the creation of new Virtual Tags.
  • Pagination has been added to the Virtual Tags page to assist with readability.
• Vantage for MSPs updates: The following updates are available for Vantage for MSPs functionality:
  • A new adjustment for Re-Rate to Public Pricing allows Vantage for MSPs users to revert their customers’ pricing back to list price, removing any enterprise discounts or private pricing
  • A new adjustment for Remove SP/RI Discounts lets Vantage for MSPs users decide which Reserved Instance and Savings Plan benefits their end customers receive.
  • A new adjustment for Re-Rate Tiered Discounts lets Management Accounts recalculate tiered pricing models for applicable services for a customer’s Managed Account.
  • A customer Managed Account’s Tracked Spend is now displayed on the Managed Accounts homepage.
• Kubernetes report updates: The following updates are available for Kubernetes Cost Reports and Efficiency Reports:
  • The Kubernetes __idle__ namespace is now enabled by default on Kubernetes Efficiency Reports.
  • Filtering by category to see CPU, RAM, and GPU is available on Kubernetes Cost Reports.
  • The aggregated total metric is now available at the top of Kubernetes Efficiency Reports.

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Kubernetes Agent Updates

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API Updates

• Costs endpoint: The filters parameter is now available on the /costs endpoint. If this parameter is supplied, you do not need to supply the cost_report_token parameter.
• Dashboards endpoint: A fix was made on the /dashboards endpoint so that you can create a dashboard with a null date interval.

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Product Updates

• Business metrics on reports: The business metrics line is now displayed on reports, regardless of binning type (e.g., cumulative, daily).
• Forecasts on segment reports: Forecasts are now displayed on ungrouped segment reports.
• Budget hierarchy chart updates: On the Budgets Hierarchy screen, when you hover over the chart, the difference between the total budget and actual spend is now displayed. The chart is also updated to show costs aggregated by day rather than month.
• Tag updates:
  • On the Group by menu in reports, when you select to group by Tag, an icon indicating the associated cost provider is displayed next to each listed tag key.
  • On the Tags configuration screen, the View in Cost Report button is now available for Virtual Tags.
  • When creating a custom tag value filter on the Virtual Tags screen, hidden tags are now displayed with a hidden eye icon, indicating they are only usable in Virtual Tag configurations.
  • The @ character is now an accepted character for Virtual Tag value names.
• Grafana Cloud integration: Vantage now integrates with Grafana Cloud as its latest cost provider.
• View as VQL: On Financial Commitment and Network Flow Report filters, a new button is available to see the VQL representation of a Financial Commitment or Network Flow Report filter.
• cur.vantage.sh: The new microsite, cur.vantage.sh, helps you decode AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) billing codes for any AWS service.

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Kubernetes Agent Updates

• Version 1.0.28, Helm Chart vantage-kubernetes-agent-1.1.0, includes the following update:
  • Support was added for mounting volumes to the agent.

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API Updates

• Business metric values endpoint: The new /business_metrics/{business_metric_token}/values endpoint lets you return values related to a business metric.
• Forecasted costs endpoint: The new /cost_reports/{cost_report_token}/forecasted_costs endpoint lets you retrieve projected future spend from a Cost Report.
• Tags endpoint: The new /tags/{key}/values endpoint lets you retrieve corresponding tag values for a given tag.
• Date bucket on costs: The date_bin parameter is now available on the /costs endpoint.
• Network Flow Reports endpoint: The /network_flow_reports endpoint lets you create and manage Network Flow Reports with POST, GET, DELETE, and PUT methods.
• Financial Commitment Reports endpoint: The /financial_commitment_reports endpoint lets you create and manage Financial Commitment Reports with POST, GET, DELETE, and PUT methods.
• The following updates were made to the Terraform provider. The latest version is version 0.1.46.
  • The following resources and data source were added:
    • vantage_network_flow_report resource
    • vantage_financial_commitment_report resource
    • vantage_financial_commitment_reports data source
  • The vantage_business_metric resource is updated to support the above-mentioned modification to the corresponding API endpoint, which no longer returns the values field in the API response. Values are now served via the /business_metrics/{business_metric_token}/values endpoint.

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Product Updates

• Tagging updates: Multiple updates were released related to tagging and virtual tags:
  • New Tags Settings page to manage virtual and provider-created tags
  • The ability to hide and unhide tag keys
  • The ability to view an associated Cost Report for a given tag
• Jira integration: Vantage integrates with Jira for tracking issues connected to budget alerts, cost anomalies, and Resource Reports.
• Annotations for Budget Alerts: An annotation is now added to the corresponding Cost Report when a budget alert is triggered.
• Filter by Commitment ARN: You can now filter by Commitment ARN on Financial Commitment Reports to understand the discount impact of a single Savings Plan or Reserved Instance.
• Commitments pagination: Pagination has been added to the Commitments screen for better readability when there are many commitments.
• Acronym searching for resource services: A fix was added so that when searching for a specific resource in report filters, you can now search by common acronyms for AWS services, such as RDS or S3, rather than typing the full service name.
• Budgets UI updates: On the Budgets screen, you can now filter by Budget Type. Additional UI updates have been made to the Performance and Hierarchy screens.
• Kubernetes Efficiency Report export: You can now export Kubernetes Efficiency Reports from the console.

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Kubernetes Agent Updates

• Version 1.0.28, Helm Chart vantage-kubernetes-agent-1.0.40, includes the following updates:
  • Default value for disableKubeTLSverify is corrected from string to boolean.
  • Now includes sidecar init containers resource requests in pod resources.

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API Updates

• Tags API: The tags endpoint was added with PUT and GET methods for retrieving all tags and hiding tags.
• Usage API: The /costs endpoint has been updated to include the ability to aggregate by and retrieve usage values via the settings[aggregate_by] parameter.
• Hierarchical budgets: The /budgets endpoint is updated to return or specify child_budget_tokens for any hierarchical budgets.
• Parameter name update: On the /kubernetes_efficiency_reports endpoint, the date_bin parameter is now date_bucket.

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Product Updates

• OpenAI cost support: Vantage now fully integrates with OpenAI as its latest cost provider.
• Service aliases in Financial Commitment Reports: When searching for services in Financial Commitment Report filters, you can now search by common acronyms for AWS services, such as RDS or S3, rather than typing the full service name.
• Explore menu: The new Explore menu, on the top right of the console, allows you to perform quick actions, like view recent reports, view starred reports, and create new reports—all from one menu.
• Customized Dashboards: Vantage now supports the ability to move around the widget order on Dashboards, change between chart and table widget types, and rename widgets directly from the Dashboard.
• Hierarchical Budgets: Hierarchical Budgets are available to help you match your budgets to your organization’s structure. Create parent-child budgeting relationships and hierarchies.
• AWS Model Training SKU Group: The AWS Model Training SKU Group is added to the supported custom pricing Databricks SKU Groups.
• Choose a currency display preference: If your imported costs are already billed in a currency other than USD, you can enable a display preference. This lets you view your costs with the appropriate currency symbol—without using Vantage’s currency conversion rates.

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Kubernetes Agent Updates

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API Updates

• Dashboards endpoint: The widget_tokens parameter of the /dashboards endpoint now supports CostReport, ResourceReport, KubernetesEfficiencyReport, and FinancialCommitmentReport tokens.
• Dashboards Terraform: widget_tokens is now a supported parameter on the vantage_dashboard resource and vantage_dashboards data source.

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Product Updates

• Update Dashboard order: You now have the option to update the report order on Dashboards.
• AWS human-readable account names: In addition to the account number, the human-readable account name is now visible on the AWS Integrations page for AWS account integrations.
• Virtual Tags processing status: The “Processing…” indicator on Virtual Tags now provides more accurate status updates, specifically for the initial run of new or updated Virtual Tag configurations.
• Virtual Tags in Resource Reports: You can now filter by Virtual Tags within Resource Report filters.
• Linode integration: Vantage now integrates with Linode from Akamai Connected Cloud as its latest cost provider.
• Integration Owner role: The new Integration Owner role has all the privileges of the Editor role, as well as the ability to configure and manage access to provider integrations. The role does not have access to other sensitive configuration settings.
• View as VQL: On Kubernetes Efficiency Report filters, a new button is available to see the VQL representation of a Kubernetes Efficiency Report filter.
• Costs drilldown: New costs drilldown options are available to add additional targeted filters and grouping criteria to a Cost Report.
• Service aliases: When searching for services in report filters, you can now search by common acronyms for AWS services, such as RDS or S3, rather than typing the full service name.

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Kubernetes Agent Updates

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API Updates

• Kubernetes Efficiency Endpoint: The following API methods were added to support the new /kubernetes_efficiency_reports endpoint:
  • POST /kubernetes_efficiency_reports: Creates a new Kubernetes Efficiency Report
  • PUT /kubernetes_efficiency_reports/{kubernetes_efficiency_report_token}: Updates an existing Kubernetes Efficiency Report
  • GET /kubernetes_efficiency_reports: Retrieves all existing Kubernetes Efficiency Reports
  • GET /kubernetes_efficiency_reports/{kubernetes_efficiency_report_token}: Retrieves a specific Kubernetes Efficiency Report by its kubernetes_efficiency_report_token
  • DELETE /kubernetes_efficiency_reports/{kubernetes_efficiency_report_token}: Deletes a specific Kubernetes Efficiency Report by its kubernetes_efficiency_report_token
• Terraform updates: The following resource and data source were added to the Terraform Provider to support the new Kubernetes Efficiency Reports API:
  • vantage_kubernetes_efficiency_report resource
  • vantage_kubernetes_efficiency_reports data source

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Product Updates

• Usage Reporting: Usage-Based Reporting is available to provide infrastructure consumption in non-monetary metrics, such as virtual machine running hours, stored gigabytes of data, and read/write units consumed.
• New Azure recommendations: Additional recommendations, such as for rightsizing, were added for Azure.
• Visual UI updates: Visual updates have been made to the look and feel of the Cost Reporting and Segments screens.
• View as VQL: On Resource Report filters, a new button is available to see the VQL representation of a Resource Report filter.

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Kubernetes Agent Updates

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API Updates

• User token endpoint: The last_seen_at field is added to the response of the /users/{user_token} endpoint.
• Currency on workspaces: The enable_currency_conversion parameter is added to the /workspaces endpoint to enable currency conversion on workspaces.
• Resource Reports API: The following endpoints were added to support the new Resource Reports API:
  • POST option for the /resource_reports endpoint
  • PUT option for the /resource_reports/{resource_report_token} endpoint
  • GET option for /resources endpoint
  • GET option for the /resources/{resource_token} endpoint
  • VQL is now available with its own namespace and schema to support creating and managing Resource Reports
• Resource Reports Terraform updates: The following resource and data source were added to the Terraform Provider to support the new Resource Reports API:
  • vantage_resource_report Terraform resource
  • vantage_resource_reports data source
• vantage-go updates: Version 0.0.40 of the vantage-go library includes the following updates:
  • GET /resources added
  • GET/PUT/POST/DELETE of /resource_reports
  • PUT /workspaces can now configure currency for a workspace
  • /users API response now includes last_seen_at
• You can now use terraform import to manage Terraform resources outside of the current state on the Terraform provider.

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Product Updates

• Currency conversion: You can now set a presentational currency, on a per-workspace basis, to visualize cost reporting data in a currency of your choice.
• Datadog integration update: Vantage provides a visual alert in the integration settings screen when the Datadog integration requires an update.
• Datadog hosts costs: For cloud resources that have the Datadog agent installed, Vantage can associate Datadog per-host fees along with the primary cloud resources from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud that drive those costs.
• Auto-generated Datadog Resource Reports: Vantage automatically generates a Resource Report when it finds the Datadog Agent installed on relevant resources. Auto-generated reports will have a name similar to AWS EC2 Instances with the Datadog Agent Installed.
• Visual UI updates: Visual updates have been made to the look and feel of the Cost Reporting sidebar.
• View as VQL: On Cost Report filters, a new button is available to see the VQL representation of a Cost Report filter.
• GitHub integration: Vantage now integrates with GitHub. See the Connecting GitHub documentation for details on how to get started.
• New Autopilot banner: A banner is now displayed at the top of the Coverage Overview page on Autopilot when a Savings Plan is purchased.
• Drill down on Cost Reports: You can now drill down in the Cost Report table when the report is grouped by more than three options.
• Account search for Cost Recommendations: Organizations with many accounts can now search for an account to filter by on the Cost Recommendations screen.
• Faster Budget loads: Performance improvements were made to the Budgets page for faster page loads.
• Cost Report link in Slack alerts: A link to the corresponding Cost Report is now displayed on Slack budget alerts.
• AWS Organization tags: You can now filter and group by AWS Organization tags on Cost Reports.

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Kubernetes Agent Updates

• Updated cost calculation: Kubernetes Efficiency Reporting and Rightsizing Recommendations now accurately calculate pod costs down to the minute, meaning if a pod runs for only 5 minutes within an hour, Vantage recognizes only 5 minutes of spend, rather than the full hour.
• Version 1.0.26, Helm Chart vantage-kubernetes-agent-1.0.36, includes the following update:
  • Added support for podSecurityContext to define the security options the pod should be run with

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API Updates

• The created_by_token is now available as an option on the vantage_budgets data source.

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Product Updates

• Savings Planner visual updates: Visual updates were made to Savings Planner for navigability.
• Custom Providers integration: Custom Providers are now available as an integration option, so you can connect any of your providers to Vantage using the FinOps FOCUS schema.
• Cost Report and Dashboard header visual updates: Visual updates were made to Cost Report and Dashboard headers for better organization and navigation.
• Provider icons visual improvements: On the main Virtual Tags and Cost Reporting screens, visual updates were made to include provider icons next to each report or virtual tag in the list.
• Autopilot for AWS Savings Plans: Autopilot for AWS Savings Plans is now available, which allows Vantage to purchase Compute Savings Plans commitments on your behalf, with manual and automated options.
• Account filter matching: For cost providers, like AWS, that have human-readable account names, you can now wildcard-match on account names in Cost Report filters (e.g., set a filter, like Account contains dev).
• Total costs by date: On Cost Reports, the Total Costs row is displayed when you change the table display to By Date.
• Set default dashboard: You can set the default dashboard that’s displayed for a team or individual users when they log in to Vantage.
• Additional GCP Active Resources: The following GCP services were added and synced as active resources:
  • Cloud AlloyDB clusters, instances, and backups
  • Cloud Container clusters
  • Cloud Functions functions
  • Memorystore for Redis instances
  • Secrets Manager secrets

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Kubernetes Agent Updates

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API Updates

• The following API endpoints were released along with the Custom Providers feature:
  • /integrations/custom_provider endpoint to create a Custom Provider
  • /integrations/{integration_token}/costs.csv endpoint to upload a Custom Provider CSV file
  • /integrations/{integration_token}/costs/{user_costs_upload_token} endpoint to delete a Custom Provider CSV file
  • /integrations/{integration_token}/costs endpoint to list all uploaded CSV files for a Custom Provider

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Product Updates

• Dynamic Cost Allocation: Dynamic cost allocation, which is the process of allocating costs based on another existing cost or metric, is now available. See the Virtual Tagging documentation for details.
• Workspace access updates: If you are granted access via RBAC to a report in a workspace outside your regularly accessed workspace, when you access the link to the report, you will have temporary access to the new workspace and can view the items that you were granted access to.
• Share reports across workspaces: You can now share report links across different workspaces. For example, if you’re in Workspace A and open a report link from Workspace B, you’ll be automatically switched to Workspace B to view the report. Previously, a 404 error was displayed.
• GCP active resources: GCP active resources are now synced and available to filter within Resource Reports.
• GCP cost recommendations: Recommendations are now available for GCP Compute rightsizing and commitments.
• Grouped report forecasts: You can now view forecasts for bar charts when they are grouped.
• Flow weight on Network Flow Reports: You can now change the Sankey diagram to be weighted by either costs or bytes on Network Flow Reports.
• Save as new on reports: On existing reports, like a Cost Report, you can now click Save as New at the top to create a new report based on the current report’s filters.
• Vantage for MSPs: Vantage for MSPs is a new set of features for managed service providers. Learn more on the Partners website.

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Kubernetes Agent Updates

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API Updates

• Costs endpoint updates: The /costs endpoint has been updated with the ability to specify settings parameters for returned costs, like credits, refunds, etc.
• Cost Report endpoint updates: The /cost_reports endpoint has been updated to include the following parameters for POST and PUT:
  • previous_period_start_date
  • previous_period_end_date
  • start_date
  • end_date
  • date_interval
  • chart_type
  • date_bin
• Two version updates were released of the Terraform provider:
  • v0.1.23 is based on the above API changes, including new parameters for the vantage_cost_report resource and the vantage_cost_reports data source.
  • v0.1.24 adds support for dynamic cost allocation on the virtual_tag_config resource.

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Product Updates

• Visual UI updates: Visual updates have been made to the look and feel of the main navigation and related Active Resources screens.
• New dashboard widgets: Resource Reports are a new widget option on dashboards.
• Data transfer cost visibility: Network Flow Reports are available to provide visibility by source and destination to the flows within your network that are driving costs.
• New active resources: VPC Flow Logs are now synced as active resources.
• VPC Flow Logs active resources tab: The VPC Flow Logs tab is available on the Active Resources screen for resources that generate network traffic. This tab shows network flows for related resources.
• Network costs: A new Network Costs button is displayed on Cost Reports for resources that generate network costs, like NAT Gateways.

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Kubernetes Agent Updates

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API Updates

• GET /integrations: retrieves all existing integrations
• POST /integrations/azure: creates a new Azure integration
• POST /integrations/gcp: creates a new GCP integration
• DELETE /integrations/{integration_token}: deletes a specific integration
• GET /integrations/{integration_token}: gets information about an existing integration
• PUT /integrations/{integration_token}: updates workspace access for an existing integration

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Product Updates

• Visual UI updates: Visual updates have been made to the look and feel of the Budgets, Business Metrics, Cost Recommendations, Active Resources, and Resource Reports screens.
• Segments RBAC: Users with the editor role can now update segments.
• MongoDB tags: Tags are now available as a filtering dimension for MongoDB Cost Reports.
• Forecasted performance of a budget: Future budget periods are now displayed and compared to forecasts on Cost Reports.
• Reserved Instance recommendations: Reserved Instance recommendations now include a link to Autopilot with split-out categories and usage.
• Negative cost axis: The range of the cost axis on Cost Reports is updated to include negative values. This is visible in cases where costs may be negative due to things like credits.
• Vantage University: Vantage University is available on the docs site and includes a set of videos for getting started with Vantage.
• Labeled business metrics: Labeled business metrics are available to identify the source of a metric—like an associated application or cost center.
• Kubernetes GPU idle costs: For each Kubernetes pod, you can now view the idle and total costs for NVIDIA GPU usage within a Kubernetes cluster.

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Kubernetes Agent Updates

• Version 1.0.26, Helm Chart vantage-kubernetes-agent-1.0.34, includes the following updates:
  • Support is now available for NVIDIA GPU exporters.
  • Fargate nodes are now ignored.
• Version 1.0.25, Helm Chart vantage-kubernetes-agent-1.0.33, includes the following update:
  • The report_http_proxy flag is available to supply during configuration. HTTP proxy is used for the HTTP client that calls Vantage and S3 during periodic reports. Overrides HTTP_PROXY in the event both are specified.

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API Updates

• Cost recommendations endpoint: The /recommendations endpoint automates the retrieval of cost recommendations. The endpoint includes filtering options for parameters like category and provider.
• Integrations endpoint: The /integrations endpoint automates the retrieval of information about existing integrations. You can also send a DELETE call to delete existing integrations.
• Segment tokens in budgets: The cost_report_token parameter of the /budgets endpoint now accepts segment tokens (in addition to Cost Report tokens).
• Business metrics endpoint updates: With the release of labeled business metrics, the /business_metrics endpoint is updated to include a label object as part of the values array of objects.

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Product Updates

• Visual navigation improvements: A Create New menu for quick actions is available on the top navigation bar.
• Datadog metrics: Business metrics have been updated with the option to directly ingest Datadog metrics.
• New virtual tagging feature: Virtual tagging is available to consistently tag costs across providers in Vantage. This feature can help to increase tagging coverage across your cloud infrastructure.
• New rightsizing recommendations: Kubernetes rightsizing recommendations are now available for rightsizing managed workloads in Kubernetes.
• New to active resources: Kubernetes managed workloads are synced as active resources in Vantage.
• Expanded forecasts: Forecasts have been expanded to include the upcoming month, the next three months, and six months ahead.
• Kubernetes agent version: The Clusters section of the Kubernetes agent settings screen is updated to show cluster name, version, and indicate if the cluster is out of date.
• Expanded chart options: Expanded chart options are available for Cost Reports, including expanded date bin selections for area and line charts and multi-line charts for grouped data.
• API service tokens: Users with owner-level permissions can now create API service tokens for authenticating with the Vantage API at the account level, rather than being associated with a specific user.

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Kubernetes Agent Updates

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API Updates

• New API endpoints: The following endpoints have been added to the API:
  • The /resource_reports endpoint automates the retrieval of existing resource reports.
  • The /financial_commitment_reports endpoint automates the retrieval of financial commitment reports.
  • The /kubernetes_efficiency_reports endpoint automates the retrieval of Kubernetes efficiency reports.
  • The /anomaly_alerts endpoint allows you to retrieve and update anomaly alerts.
  • The /virtual_tag_configs endpoint automates the creation, retrieval, and update of virtual tags.
  • The /anomaly_notifications endpoint automates the creation, retrieval, and update of anomaly notifications.
  • The /budgets endpoint automates the creation, retrieval, and update of budgets.
  • The /budgets_alerts endpoint automates the creation, retrieval, and update of budgets alerts.
• New Terraform resources: The following resources have been added to the Terraform provider:
  • vantage_virtual_tag_config
  • vantage_anomaly_notification
  • vantage_budget
  • vantage_business_metric
  • vantage_report_notification
• New Terraform data sources: The following data sources have been added to the Vantage provider:
  • vantage_anomaly_notifications
  • vantage_financial_commitment_reports
  • vantage_kubernetes_efficiency_reports
  • vantage_resource_reports
  • vantage_virtual_tag_configs
  • vantage_budgets
  • vantage_business_metrics
  • vantage_report_notifications

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Product Updates

• Saved filters on dashboards: You can now add a saved filter to a dashboard to view all Cost Reports on the dashboard with consistent filters applied.
• Updated Overview page: Associated budget and per unit costs are now displayed on Cost Report widgets on the Overview page.
• Updated UI look and feel: Visual improvements were made to the look and feel of the Overview and Budgets screens.
• Segments sync status: Cost allocation segments are now updated to show segment sync status. The look and feel of this page have been visually updated as well.
• Filterable cost recommendations: Recommendations are now filterable by provider on the Cost Recommendations screen.
• Pie chart option: You can now change the graph view on Cost Reports to a pie chart.
• Custom date filtering: The date picker on Cost Reports is updated to allow for custom period selections.
• Custom Databricks pricing: Custom discounts are now supported for Databricks SKU groups.

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Kubernetes Agent Updates

• Version 1.0.24 includes the following update:
  • Supports monitoring ArgoCD resources in the cluster.
• Version 1.0.23 includes the following updates:
  • app.kubernetes.io labels are now allowed.
  • Agent scrape results are added to agent metadata.
  • Prometheus metrics are added for tracking reporting successes/failures.
  • Dependencies are updated to the latest stable versions.
  • Additional controller metadata is included in agent reports for use in Active Resources.

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API Updates

• New tagged option: On the /cost_reports endpoint in the API, and the vantage_cost_report resource in the Terraform provider, tagged is a valid option for the groupings parameter.
• New dashboard parameter: The saved_filter_tokens parameter is now available on the /dashboards endpoint. It is also available on the vantage_dashboard resource in the Terraform provider.
• New Terraform resources: Additional Terraform resources are now available:
  • The vantage_segment resource automates the creation of cost allocation segments in Vantage. Large segment hierarchies can easily be automated with filters applied as needed.
  • The vantage_team resource automates the creation of Vantage teams. Create a team and assign Vantage users, by email, to the team.
  • The vantage_access_grant resource automates access grants via role-based access controls in Vantage. Create grants to allow or deny teams access to resources, like folders or Cost Reports.
  • The vantage_report_notification resource automates the creation of Report Notifications. Create a notification for a specific Cost Report. Specify the notification’s frequency (e.g., daily) and change (e.g., in dollars).
• Terraform data sources: Data sources are now available to retrieve information outside your Terraform configuration.
• Business metrics endpoint: The /business_metric endpoint is now available to create and update business metrics in the console.

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Product Updates

• Ability to group by multiple tags: You can now group by multiple tags in the console.
• EC2 rightsizing recommendations: New recommendations are added for rightsizing EC2 instances.
• Segment settings: You can now edit the default report settings on a top-level segment report.
• Updated UI look and feel: Visual updates were made to Financial Planning menus and screens.
• Financial Commitment Reports: Financial commitment reports are now available to help you understand how your organization is utilizing financial commitments.
• Bulk actions for folders and Cost Reports: You can now move and star folders and Cost Reports in bulk.
• Additional operators on resource reports: The is greater than and is less than operators are both available for Metadata filters on resource reports. For example: where Metadata CloudWatch Log Groups Retention in Days is greater than 5.

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API Updates

• New notifications endpoint: The /report_notifications endpoint is now available. This endpoint also now has support via the Terraform provider.
• Multi-tag support: The groupings parameter of the /costs endpoint has support for multiple tags.
• Data sources in Terraform: Data sources for multiple Vantage resources are now available in the Terraform provider.
• Segment costs: You can now obtain costs for segment reports from the /costs endpoint.
• Settings options on segments: The report_settings object is now available on the /segments endpoint.
• Settings on Cost Reports: The settings object is now available on the /cost_reports endpoint.

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Product Updates

• PlanetScale support: PlanetScale is now supported as a provider in Vantage.
• Updated UI look and feel: The Settings UI and main navigation bar are visually updated for better navigability.
• Charge Type filter and group: Charge Type is available as a new filter and grouping category on Cost Reports.
• Created by column: The Created by column is added to Business Metrics, Savings Models, as well as Cost Reporting screens, like Dashboards.
• Created On column sort: The Created On column, available on Cost Reporting screens, correctly sorts by date.
• Created by me filter: The Created by me filter screen is available in Cost Reporting. New reports you create will now be visible within this view.
• Tag grouping for advanced exports: The advanced export on Cost Reports now has a Tag grouping option.
• “Other” grouping expanded: The Other grouping is expanded on Cost Reports so you can display additional costs, beyond what’s already displayed, in the table and graph.
• Cost Reports line and area charts: When grouping by specific criteria, you can now adjust the Cost Report graph to be displayed as an area chart or line chart, with a line for each group.
• Searchable Business Metrics Report dropdown: The Report dropdown menu on the Business Metrics screen is now searchable.

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API Updates

• Priority added to PUT request for segments: The priority parameter is available on the /segments/{segment_token} endpoint.
• New groupings parameter: The groupings parameter is available on the /costs endpoint.
• Access grant endpoint update: Update/destroy endpoints for /access_grant now use the access grant token to identify an access grant.

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Product Updates

• Expanded recommendations: Cost recommendations have been expanded for Azure.
• Kubernetes efficiency reports: Kubernetes efficiency reports allow teams to quickly identify which Kubernetes pods are running inefficiently. These reports are a customized view of Kubernetes idle and total costs based on Cluster, Namespace, and Label.
• Official Kubernetes integration: The Vantage Kubernetes agent provides a single in-cluster deployment that handles both metrics collection and upload to Vantage—without any intermediary requirements.

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API Updates

• Cost allocations segment API: Script both the creation and modification of cost allocation segments via new API endpoints.

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Product Updates

• Automatic team assignment for SSO: Automatically assign users to teams in Vantage based on your organization’s existing SSO groups.
• Confluent support: Confluent is now supported as a provider in Vantage.
• Team-based access controls: Enterprise customers can now use role-based access control to create fine-grained permissions for teams across their organizations.

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Product Updates

• Resource report exports: You can now download lists of resources for further exploration via resource reports.

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Product Updates

• Annotations for reports: You can now add annotations to Cost Reports for infrastructure changes or events.
• Oracle support: Oracle is now supported as a provider in Vantage.
• Dashboards: You can now create dashboards with custom collections of Cost Reports and apply date range and period filters to all reports present on them.

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API Updates

• Write API: The new write API automates the management of Cost Reports, saved filters, and dashboards.
• New Terraform resources: New Terraform resources are available for Cost Reports, folders, saved filters, and dashboards.

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Product Updates

• Alert thresholds for anomaly detection: Set custom alert thresholds on cost anomaly alerts, so alerts are tailored to your tolerance for cost spikes.
• Comparative cost reporting: Cost Reports now have a By Date toggle to display costs by day, week, or month in the costs table.
• Budget alerts: You can now create budget alerts to receive automated notifications when costs exceed user-defined alert thresholds.

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Product Updates

• Datadog support: Datadog is now supported as a provider in Vantage.
• Multi-dimensional cost reporting: You can now group Cost Reports by multiple dimensions.

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Product Updates

• GCP resource-level costs: Resource-level costs are available for GCP Cost Reports.
• Resource reports: You can create resource reports to view and access resources generated per provider.

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Product Updates

• Kubernetes cost efficiency metrics: Manage the efficiency of your Kubernetes clusters in addition to enterprise reporting, visibility, and cost allocation.

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Product Updates

• Self-service SAML: Users can now configure SAML-based SSO for their account without contacting Vantage support.
• Saved filters: Saved filters are available to save and reuse filter logic across multiple Cost Reports.
• Azure cost recommendations: Azure cost recommendations are now supported.

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Product Updates

• Cost Report exports: You can now export Cost Reports via custom exports.
• Per-unit cost support: With per-unit costs, you can track costs per customer, endpoint, transaction, etc.

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API Updates

• Terraform provider: Terraform provider is now available to integrate AWS accounts with Vantage.

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Product Updates

• New Relic support: New Relic is now supported as a provider in Vantage.
• Expanded resource filtering: You can now filter by resource in Cost Reports.
• MongoDB Atlas support: MongoDB Atlas is now supported as a provider in Vantage.

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Product Updates

• Updates to Cost Reports: You can now save custom date ranges, date bins, and groupings to share with teammates in Cost Reports.
• Autopilot recommendations expanded: Autopilot is expanded to recommend Reserved Instance purchases on RDS, ElastiCache, Redshift, and OpenSearch.
• Cost allocation segments: Segments are now enabled for teams to allocate costs to business units.