One of the standout features of the solution is its groups and views functionality.

We need to do the costs and we need to do the chargeback to different departments. On the Cloud, that is a challenge right now as either way you divide the subscription or you create the resource groups, it's hard. It doesn't matter which model you go with. We need to do the chargeback to different teams. 

If somebody is using, say, a database that might be hosted on to some other team, we should be able to do the chargeback based on that. It covers the different business mappings that we have to do and collects the data. There might be some managed and unmanaged subscriptions also. We need to distinguish between that and do the chargeback accordingly. This solution helps with that process.

The pricing isn't too expensive.

What I really like is the centralized dashboard, and that we can customize it according to the customer's needs. The support from IBM is also fantastic.

The most crucial feature in reducing our cloud costs via engineering efforts was the rightsizing recommendations.  For commitment discount tracking,  the dashboards we created for reserved instance and savings plan coverage and utilization were key to showing ROI. As for Cloudability's integration with AWS, it refreshed the data as often as AWS wrote to the billing files (a couple of times per day), along with pulling usage data from CloudWatch.

The tool helps us to resize on AWS correctly. 

The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to create reports and dashboards. Users can create dashboards in Cloudability by resource groups and accounts, which is very useful, especially considering its tagging features. Using tags in Cloudability, a user could create a report and dashboard if there was one account, and in that, there are multiple teams.

The sizing recommendation will look, and say, "You are only using this at 80%," then recommend a better fit for you.

The ability to generate different types of dashboards and being able to make those dashboards available to customers (our users). So each user can have their own dashboard that they want to consume. Instead of having to share one dashboard for multiple users, you can create individual views for each user to view, and that view will contain only their own accounts, which allows for separation of data.

• The Reserved Instance Planner is quite valuable.
  
• It is a SaaS platform that looks at your whole AWS environment.

It is fast in terms of pulling up data and displaying it.

Cloud Optimization runs through the system, then tells you, "You could've used these resources. This resource was running, but not utilized that much." It gives you metrics of how the whole infrastructure is used. It ties the metrics to building, in some cases saying, "You paid for something that you didn't use that much."

Transparency and visibility are the key features.

Regarding integration and configuration of this product in our AWS environment, it fits in naturally and enhances the overall value as it's "native" to AWS.

We are also able to export data from it and put it in Excel sheets for some of the reporting.