FinOps

Cost Posture

• In Cost > Posture:
  -- Only onboarded cloud providers appear in the summary widget.
  -- Total cost shows cost data for each cloud account.
  -- You can save custom page level view and set as a default view.
  -- The cloud account cost data includes month wise filter, instead of relative text like previous month, last 3 months, etc.

• In Cost > Posture> Visibility:
  -- For multiple month selections, individual month-level cost along with total cost appears.
  -- In line charts, data points will not be marked for data not available for a specific day or month.
  -- Legends appear for line charts.

Cost Recommendations

• In Recommendation > Category > Cost:
  -- Added recommendations with respect to cost governance policies.

Cost Optimizer

• In Cost > Cost Optimizer:
  -- Consolidated CoreStack recommender and cloud native recommendations.

Cost Optimization

• For Azure account, added CoreStack rule based cost saving policies.
  -- AZURE_MARIADB_DATABASE_SERVERS_ORPHANED
  -- AZURE_MYSQL_DATABASE_SERVERS_ORPHANED
  -- AZURE_PGSQL_DATABASE_SERVERS_ORPHANED
  -- AZURE_SQL_SERVER_DATABASE_SERVERS_IDLE
  -- AZURE_SQL_SERVER_DATABASE_SERVERS_ORPHANED
  -- Azure_PGSQL_Database_Servers_Idle
  -- Azure_MySQL_Database_Servers_Idle

• For GCP account, added CoreStack rule based cost saving policies.
  -- GCP_SQL_SERVER_DATABASE_SERVERS_ORPHANED
  -- GCP_MYSQL_DATABASE_SERVERS_ORPHANED
  -- GCP_PGSQL_DATABASE_SERVERS_ORPHANED

SecOps​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Compliance Posture

• In Compliance > Posture:
  -- Grouped standards view against cloud accounts with respect to cloud providers. Resource view grouped under policies for quick remediation.
• In Compliance > Posture > Visibility:
  -- Added insights into control and resource success and violation.
• In Compliance > Posture > Visibility > {Policy Name}:
  -- Quick remediation to improve compliance posture.

OneLogin SSO Integration

• Account administrator can enable/disable OneLogin Single Sign-On (SSO) multi factor authentication (MFA) at account level.

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

• New role as Tenant_admin to create and inherit permissions from Account_admin.
• As an Account/Tenant admin you have an option to create a user group and assign relevant role to the group. Admin can add/remove users from the group.

Compliance Assessment

• Added OCI standard to compliance assessment report.

Enterprise Cloud Compliance (ECC)

• Upgraded AC3 controls to NIST v5

CloudOps​​​​​​​

VMware Onboarding

CoreStack allows you to onboard a VMware account. It supports below resources.

• Network Network Networks
• Network Network IP-Ranges
• Network Network Load-Balancer
• Network Network Domains
• Network Network Network-Profiles
• Network Network Security-Groups
• Storage Storage Storages
• Compute Compute Virtual Machine

OCI Onboarding

• Added OCI Activity Post Onboarding configuration. The resource activities are stored and show in operations posture.

• Added OCI Alerts and Activity Post Onboarding configuration. The resource activities are stored and shown in operations posture.

GCP Metrics

Added GCP Metrics

Redis

• clients/blocked
• clients/connected
• commands/calls
• commands/total_time
• commands/usec_per_call
• keyspace/avg_ttl
• keyspace/keys
• keyspace/keys_with_expiration
• persistence/rdb/bgsave_in_progress
• replication/master/slaves/lag
• stats/memory/maxmemory
• stats/memory/system_memory_usage_ratio
• stats/memory/usage
• stats/memory/usage_ratio

Load_Balancing

• https/backend_latencies
• https/backend_request_bytes_count
• https/backend_request_count
• https/backend_response_bytes_count
• https/frontend_tcp_rtt
• https/internal/backend_latencies
• https/internal/request_bytes_count
• https/internal/request_count
• https/internal/response_bytes_count
• https/internal/total_latencies
• https/request_bytes_count

Cloud_Filestore

• nfs/server/average_read_latency
• nfs/server/average_write_latency
• nfs/server/free_bytes

Reports

• OCI Cost Daily - This report tracks the oracle cloud account daily cost for current month and last month. The dimensions include: cloud account, product category and region.

• OCI Cost Monthly - This report tracks the oracle cloud account monthly cost for last 12 months. The dimensions include: cloud account, product category, region and tags.

• OCI Consolidated Charge Report - A paginated report which provides the consolidated cost for last 3 months at resource level.

• AWS Linked Account Cost Report - The executive level can view this report for the spent pattern over quarters, months and so on. It is consolidated view of all cloud services for AWS linked accounts.

• Workspace Analytics - This report tracks the workspace resources related activities, such as cost growth and usage growth. It also provides a view around workspace mode.

• All the reports now includes white labelled logo.

• Added below fields to EC2 instance page.
  -- Instance growth
  -- Top 10 instance types
  -- Server instance cost growth
  -- Top 10 Instances based on CPU Consumption
  -- Tag & Resource name

• In GCP monthly report, the folder id is stored in the resource wise billing daily and monthly collections and is displayed in the GCP monthly cost reports.

White Labeling

• White-labeled notification emails. Organization name received as input is used in place of Corestack in the email content.

Bug Fixes

• User sessions log out frequently for the Mac users using the Edge browser.
• Access Token is not generated in API production Wrapper.
• Error occurs in policy execution when concurrent compliance standards are executed.
• CoreStack recommended guardrails do not execute post account onboarding.
• CoreStack portal do not load in latest Chrome browser.
• Operational alerts and activity notifications emails are delayed.
• Cost Posture AWS Organization view shows "No Records Found" instead of listing the linked accounts.
• Terraform template execution is completed but the status is not updated in CoreStack.