2021 enhancements

Review the BMC Helix Cloud Cost enhancements made available during 2021 for features that will benefit your organization and to understand changes that might impact your users.

September 21, 2021

REST API updates

This release offers the following new APIs:

• Cost APIs—To retrieve the cost of cloud resources at specific intervals, such as monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, or yearly.
• Get license usage details API—To retrieve the count of cloud resources that use the product license.

Cost details of accounts and services for resource pools

You can now view and analyze the cost details of accounts and services associated with a resource pool. The details include the aggregated cost, cost per each account and service, and monthly cost comparisons. For more information, see Navigating the Cloud Cost dashboard.

Aug 23, 2021

Restricted access for users

Access to the BMC Helix Cloud Cost dashboard is now restricted for any new user that you create in BMC Helix Portal. When this user launches BMC Helix Cloud Cost from BMC Helix Portal, a message about forbidden access is displayed. To access the BMC Helix Cloud Cost dashboard and view data, a tenant administrator must assign the required role to the user. For more information, see Managing Users.

July 27, 2021

Cost evaluation for resource pools

The monthly cost for the resource pools is now calculated once in 12 hours to optimize the server utilization. Therefore, the resource pool cost displayed on the dashboard will be eventually consistent.

May 27, 2021

Collect tags defined in the Google Cloud Platform console

You can now use the tags (labels) defined in the Google Cloud Platform console to create resource pools. You can add project-level and resource-level labels in GCP and create resource pools by selecting the tags of the resources. For details, see Using Google Cloud Platform labels to report costs.

Calculate the cost of your individual Google Cloud Platform resources

BMC Helix Cloud Cost now calculates resource-level cost for all the Google Cloud Platform resources. The cost of each resource is displayed in the Explore bill section on the Cloud Cost dashboard. For details, see Using Google Cloud Platform labels to report costs.

Provide access to all AWS child accounts simultaneously 

While collecting AWS utilization data, you can now use the * character instead of the account ID in the Resource ARN to provide access to all AWS child (trustee) accounts simultaneously. For details, see Amazon Web Services connector.

January 15, 2021

Ability to view billing details in the configured currency

You can now define and manage the currency in which the billing details will be displayed in BMC Helix Cloud Cost. If the billing data received from the cloud provider is in a different currency from the existing currency, you can convert the billing data currency to the configured currency. You can also use custom or automatic conversion rates when converting the currency to the configured currency. For details, see Configuring Currency settings.

Cost optimization recommendations for Azure zombie disks 

You can now view and analyze the unused disks in your Azure infrastructure. By using the unattached volume recommendations displayed on the Dashboard or the Recommendations tab, you can manage your resources efficiently and reduce unnecessary expenditure. The recommendations provide specific details about the unattached volumes that need attention and the estimated cost savings (in $) that you can achieve by implementing the recommendations. For details, see Unattached volume recommendations.