Sold by: IBM Software
IBM Cloudability is an industry-leading solution for scaling FinOps. Enhance business agility with cost transparency and control, operational efficiency and collaborative FinOps for your organization.
Sold by: IBM Software
Overview
Image
IBM Cloudability product screenshot
Image
IBM Cloudability product screenshot 2
Video
Allocate and Optimize Cloud Resources
Video
Enable Team Ownership of Cloud Spend
Video
Cloudability Overview
IBM Cloudability is a flexible FinOps tool that provides cloud cost management and optimization capabilities to enable IT, finance, and business teams to optimize their costs and communicate the business value of the cloud.
Built to support the organizational adoption of cloud financial management or FinOps, IBM Cloudability streamlines the process of bringing financial accountability to the scalable, variable, and distributed nature of the cloud.
IBM Cloudability normalizes, and structures cloud billing and usage data from across your public cloud ecosystem so that you can actively manage spend and consumption to continuously improve the unit economics of cloud services, enabling your team to:
-
Adapt cloud cost structures to the business by fully and accurately allocating your cloud spend, including containers and support charges, to ensure a full chargeback of cloud costs.
-
Optimize cloud costs, leveraging rightsizing recommendations across major cloud service providers to reduce operating expenses and fund future innovation investments.
-
Improve business agility and decision making with speed and confidence, enabling team ownership and accountability of cloud spend to better align cloud investments to business objectives.
Highlights
- Cloud cost transparency and control with comprehensive analytics, flexible reporting and forecasting
- Optimize cloud costs with operational efficiency
- Establish collaborative FinOps and enable practitioners across IT, Finance and DevOps
Details
Features and programs
Financing for AWS Marketplace purchases
AWS Marketplace now accepts line of credit payments through the PNC Vendor Finance program. This program is available to select AWS customers in the US, excluding NV, NC, ND, TN, & VT.
Pricing
Pricing is based on the duration and terms of your contract with the vendor, and additional usage. You pay upfront or in installments according to your contract terms with the vendor. This entitles you to a specified quantity of use for the contract duration. Usage-based pricing is in effect for overages or additional usage not covered in the contract. These charges are applied on top of the contract price. If you choose not to renew or replace your contract before the contract end date, access to your entitlements will expire.
Additional AWS infrastructure costs may apply. Use the AWS Pricing Calculator to estimate your infrastructure costs.
Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
|---|---|---|
CLDY1MYEAR | Manage up to $1M of annual cloud spend. Addl fees above $1M/year | $30,000.00 |
CLDY3MYEAR | Manage up to $3M of annual cloud spend. Addl fees above $3M/year | $76,680.00 |
CLDY6MYEAR | Manage up to $6M of annual cloud spend. Addl fees above $7M/year | $132,480.00 |
Dimension | Cost/unit |
|---|---|
Cloud Spend above contracted amount in an Annual Commit Model | $3,300.00 |
Cloud spend above contracted amount in a Total Commit model | $3,300.00 |
Cloud spend above contracted amount in a Financial Planning Annual Commit model | $1,650.00 |
Cloud spend above contracted amount in a Financial PlanningTotal Commit model | $1,650.00 |
Cloud spend above contracted amount in an Essentials Annual commit model | $1,930.00 |
Cloud spend above contracted amount in an Essentials Total commit model | $1,930.00 |
Cloud spend above contracte amount in a Standard Annual commit model | $2,760.00 |
Cloud spend above contracted amount in a Standard Total commit model | $2,760.00 |
Cloud spend above contracted amount in a Premium Annual commit model | $4,410.00 |
Cloud spend above contracted amount in a Premium Total commit model | $4,410.00 |
Vendor refund policy
Refunds, cancellations, and credits are issued on a case-by-case basis.
Legal
Vendor terms and conditions
Upon subscribing to this product, you must acknowledge and agree to the terms and conditions outlined in the vendor's End User License Agreement (EULA) .
Content disclaimer
Vendors are responsible for their product descriptions and other product content. AWS does not warrant that vendors' product descriptions or other product content are accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free.
Delivery details
Software as a Service (SaaS)
SaaS delivers cloud-based software applications directly to customers over the internet. You can access these applications through a subscription model. You will pay recurring monthly usage fees through your AWS bill, while AWS handles deployment and infrastructure management, ensuring scalability, reliability, and seamless integration with other AWS services.
Resources
Vendor resources
Support
Vendor support
Open a new case or review existing cases:
AWS infrastructure support
AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by HAQM Web Services.
Updated weekly
By IBM Software
By CloudForecast
By CloudZero
Top
10
In Planning and Forecasting, Cloud Governance
Top
50
In IT Business Management
Top
10
In Cost Allocation and Accountability, Cloud Financial Management, Container Cost Optimization
AI generated sentiment from actual customer reviews on AWS and G2
Functionality
Ease of use
Customer service
Cost effectiveness
Positive reviews
Mixed reviews
Negative reviews
AI generated from product descriptions
Cloud Cost Analytics
Advanced data normalization and structuring of cloud billing and usage data across multiple public cloud ecosystems
Resource Optimization
Provides rightsizing recommendations across major cloud service providers to reduce operational expenses
Multi-Cloud Cost Allocation
Supports comprehensive cost allocation including containers and support charges for full financial accountability
Financial Management Workflow
Enables cross-functional cloud financial management integration for IT, finance, and business teams
Consumption Tracking
Provides detailed tracking and analysis of cloud service consumption to improve unit economics
Cost Monitoring
Provides daily AWS cost monitoring with detailed cost summaries and anomaly alerts
Resource Tagging
Enables discovery and tracking of untagged AWS resources to ensure tagging compliance
Cost Anomaly Detection
Identifies and analyzes precise reasons for cost increases within 30 seconds
Multi-Channel Reporting
Supports cost report delivery through email, Slack, and Microsoft Teams integrations
Resource Utilization Analysis
Generates ZeroWaste Healthcheck Report to identify idle and underutilized cloud resources
Cost Allocation
"Automatically allocate cloud spend across shared resources, untagged resources, Kubernetes environments, and multiple cloud service providers"
Cost Telemetry
"Apply granular unit cost measurement techniques for tracking expenses per tenant, product feature, customer, and development team"
Multi-Source Cost Aggregation
"Ingest and consolidate billing data from AWS, PaaS, and SaaS platforms including Snowflake, MongoDB, Databricks, Datadog, and New Relic"
Anomaly Detection
"Implement real-time cost trend monitoring and automated anomaly detection mechanisms for identifying unexpected spending patterns"
Resource Cost Tracking
"Enable detailed cost tracking for specific Kubernetes workloads and infrastructure components with precision measurement capabilities"
Validated by AWS Marketplace
FedRAMP
GDPR
HIPAA
ISO/IEC 27001
PCI DSS
SOC 2 Type 2
No security profile
No security profile
-
-
-
-
-
Standard contract
No
No
No
Customer reviews
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
Member of an AWS cloud team & administrator of Apptio Cloudability
Reviewed on Apr 08, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Clear dashboards easy to maintain and to share with the users
Accurate advice for resources optimization
Very good customer support (clear help center documentation, fast & good technical support at case creation)
Ease of building reports
Custom views easy to create for service owners
Good flexibility to play around with different criteria for determining costs based on tags, resources ..
Accurate advice for resources optimization
Very good customer support (clear help center documentation, fast & good technical support at case creation)
Ease of building reports
Custom views easy to create for service owners
Good flexibility to play around with different criteria for determining costs based on tags, resources ..
What do you dislike about the product?
Reporting needs some improvements, especially in the lack of filter criterias
Optimization recommendations only based on one month past usage. Should be good to extend it to 2 or 3 months
Optimization recommendations only based on one month past usage. Should be good to extend it to 2 or 3 months
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cloudability gives accurate reports and dashboards for a daily usage based on a lot of criteria. These dashboards are easy to manage , custom and share
IBM cloudability helped us to do some substantial costs savings on AWS thanks to accurate resources righsizing recommendations
We also appreciate the possibility of email alerts on spending anomalies, it helps us to be more reactive to find the root cause
IBM cloudability helped us to do some substantial costs savings on AWS thanks to accurate resources righsizing recommendations
We also appreciate the possibility of email alerts on spending anomalies, it helps us to be more reactive to find the root cause
Leave a comment0 comments
James C.
Cloudability - Our route to financial understanding in Cloud
Reviewed on Mar 21, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to be able to pull in data from multiple Cloud vendors and review the entire spend in one location simply cannot be underestimated. Using Cloud Financial Planning daily gives us the ability to work more closely with the business to directly recognise, validate and manage our cloud spend. The ability to split this down in a business focussed way that meets our requirement and financial requirement, makes this a go to product. As a cloud based product it was easy to integrate within our existing environment. Having resource alligned to us to help when things have been challenging has also been hugely beneficial.
What do you dislike about the product?
The move for reporting to BI has not been the most straight forward and as the product is constantly being updated and upgraded sometimes you can feel a little overwelmed by new functionality.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is enabling us to view across ourt cloud vendors all within a single pane of glass. It helps us to crosscharge and validate usage and therefore spend with the various business teams. CFP has enabled us to work more closely with the budget owners within teh business to better understand and manage our cloud spend.
Financial Services
Great tool for consolidating, understanding and analysing public cloud costs
Reviewed on Mar 18, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Cloudability is useful for our organisation, specifically for:
• Customisable/Personalised dashboards to monitor and analyze cloud usage and costs
• Chargeback reporting including custom dimensions and metrics related to spend and usage
• Rightsizing recommendations for cost optimisation
• Resource inventory data to identify underutilised resources
• Business mappings and custom views for cost allocation and transparency for individual business units/regions
• Tagging reporting
• Ad-hoc dashboard builds
• Customisable/Personalised dashboards to monitor and analyze cloud usage and costs
• Chargeback reporting including custom dimensions and metrics related to spend and usage
• Rightsizing recommendations for cost optimisation
• Resource inventory data to identify underutilised resources
• Business mappings and custom views for cost allocation and transparency for individual business units/regions
• Tagging reporting
• Ad-hoc dashboard builds
What do you dislike about the product?
There are limitations in a few areas, and specifically we would like to see improvements in:
- Enhanced and automated rightsizing recommendations
- Reports around savings made from actioning recommendations
- Enhanced forecasting models
- Custom calculations available in Apptio BI, currently these are limited
- Enhanced and automated rightsizing recommendations
- Reports around savings made from actioning recommendations
- Enhanced forecasting models
- Custom calculations available in Apptio BI, currently these are limited
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It aggregates together our cloud costs from different providers in a standardised format and allows us to create custom metrics, dimensions and reports to review and analyse our spend. We use the rightsizing recommendations and anomaly detection to drive savings.
Financial Services
Great visibility of Cloud resources
Reviewed on Mar 14, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Being able to see Cloud resources across multiple CSPs from a high and granular level plus recommendations on optimisation.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of integration with Dynatrace and no option to automate optimisation opportunities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It’s giving me visibility of all my companies Cloud spend, optimisations and anomalies. This allows me to manage and maintain our Cloud costs.
Jayna L.
One stop shop
Reviewed on Mar 13, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to connect in multiple cloud services for oversight of spend
What do you dislike about the product?
The reporting can be difficult to navigate
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Providing visibility, much needed for reporting and governance in my role