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IBM Cloudability Enablement

Add your IBM Cloud Account to IBM Cloudability and start tracking your cloud spend.

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  • Date of last update: 02/28/2025
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    Type
    • Terraform
    Provider
    • IBM
    Category
    • Migration
    Last updated
    • 02/28/2025
    Product version
    • 1.1.4
    Variation
    • Standard
    Est. deployment time:
    • 4min
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Details

Type
  • Terraform
Provider
  • IBM
Category
  • Migration
Last updated
  • 02/28/2025
Product version
  • 1.1.4
Variation
  • Standard
Est. deployment time:
  • 4min
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Overview

Simplify your IBM Cloud Account onboarding to IBM Cloudability with this deployable architecture. Only an IBM Cloud IAM Api Key and Cloudability API key are required. This deployable architecture will take care of all of the necessary steps to get your IBM Cloud billing data into IBM Cloudability. This includes the following:

  1. Creating Key Protect Encrypted COS Buckets to store your daily billing snapshots.
  2. Setup writing of billing snapshots to the COS Bucket.
  3. Grant IBM Cloudability access to read from the COS buckets
  4. Add your IBM Cloud account to Cloudability and run access verification from Cloudability.

Your IBM Cloud billing data will begin showing up in IBM Cloudability the next day.
To obtain your IBM Cloudability API key visit https://app.apptio.com/cloudability#/settings/preferences under the section Cloudability API select Enable API which will generate an api key. If you don't have a Cloudability account start your tree trial now: https://www.apptio.com/products/cloudability/#cldy-trial.

Features and capabilities

Daily exports of your cloud billing reports to a COS Bucket

Cloudability reads CSV Billing reports which are added to a COS bucket daily for each account in your enterprise.

Encrypted Bucket with Key Protect

Daily billing reports are stored in a Key Protect encrypted bucket allowing the automated rotatation of encryption keys. See https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-object-storage?topic=cloud-object-storage-tutorial-kp-encrypt-bucket.

Least Privileged Operations to Cloudability

Custom access roles are created so that cloudability only has the minimal required access to your IBM Cloud Account.

Cloudability Onboarding Verification

Verification of the account onboarding to IBM Cloudability is performed so that you have confidence that the configuration is correct.

Add all accounts in an Enterprise to Cloudability

Running this deployable architecture at the root (primary) Enterprise Account will cause all existing and future accounts in the enterprise to be added to IBM Cloudability.

Managed with Code!

Easily re-configure or clean-up the onboarding of your accounts to Cloudability and ensure that everything is centrally connected and configured.

Architecture

    Version last updated: 02/28/2025

    Variation

    Variation

    Standard Cloudability Enablement

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    Standard Cloudability Enablement

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    IBM Cloud Billing writes billing reports to a Key Protect encrypted object storage bucket. IBM Cloudability is granted access to read the billing reports from this bucket which are updated daily. Your IBM Cloud account is added to Cloudability so that it is aware of the object storage bucket to pull the billing data from. Optionally, monitoring and activity events are sent to IBM Cloud Monitoring and IBM Cloud Logs respectively to be able to audit access to the object storage bucket. For more details visit the reference architecture documentation

    The IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center manages compliance profiles that indicate when a product meets defined requirements. Each profile can contain multiple controls. Only controls that are claimed and scanned are displayed in the table. IBM Cloudability Enablement claims the following security and compliance information.

    IBM Cloud Framework for Financial Services profile

    Profile version 1.7.0

    Complete scan
    Category
    Description
    AUAudit and Accountability
    CPContingency Planning
    SCSystem and Communications Protection
    SISystem and Information Integrity

    Getting support

    Working on support enablement

    https://cloud.ibm.com/unifiedsupport/supportcenter

    Summary

    IBM Cloudability Enablement

      6 resources
      • IBM Cloudability Enablement
        6 resources
        *
        • Object Storage Bucket
          *
            Resource Configuration
            Starting costs are based on this resource configuration. You can edit configurations after you add this product to a project, which might impact costs.
            archive_enabled: false
            location: us-south
            locationIdentifier: region_location
            plan: cos-one-rate-plan
            storage_class: onerate_active
            Usage costs
            Storage Capacity *
            $0.0418/GB
            Free Class A requests *
            $0.0000/1k API calls
            Class A requests *
            $0.0052/1k API calls
            Free Class B requests *
            $0.0000/10k API calls
            Class B requests *
            $0.0042/10k API calls
            Free Public Egress *
            $0.0000/GB
            Public Egress *
            $0.0500/GB
        • dff97f5c-bc5e-4455-b470-411c3edbe49c
          provided
            Resource Configuration
            Starting costs are based on this resource configuration. You can edit configurations after you add this product to a project, which might impact costs.
            location: global
            plan: cos-one-rate-plan
            service: cloud-object-storage
        • ee41347f-b18e-4ca6-bf80-b5467c63f9a6
          *
            Resource Configuration
            Starting costs are based on this resource configuration. You can edit configurations after you add this product to a project, which might impact costs.
            location: us-south
            plan: tiered-pricing
            service: kms
            Usage costs
            Key versions free allowance (first 5 Key Versions) *
            $0.0000/Key Versions
            Key versions *
            $1.0763/Key Versions
        • Resources not included in cost (3 / 6 resources)
            Resource List
            The following resources were not included in the cost estimate but might have an associated cost.
            ibm_billing_report_snapshot
            ibm_cos_bucket_lifecycle_configuration
            ibm_iam_custom_role
      • Total estimated cost
        *$0.00/mo
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