Fresh From the Labs: CloudHealth Product Updates March 2026
March has been a dynamic month for the world of FinOps, highlighted by significant annual updates from the FinOps Foundation to their core framework. These revisions include critical changes to foundational elements, specifically updating the definitions of both FinOps itself and its associated Scopes. Beyond definitions, the FinOps Foundation rolled out notable updates to its Capabilities. A major streamlining effort saw the merging of "Architecting for Cloud" and "Onboarding Workloads" into a unified, more comprehensive Capability: "Architecting & Workload Placement." Lastly, recognizing the importance of strategic leadership, a brand-new Capability, "Executive Strategy Alignment," has been formally introduced.
For CloudHealth, this wave of industry updates served as an accelerant for our own innovation and alignment efforts. This month, we've focused on enhancing how CloudHealth directly integrates with and supports the entire FinOps Framework. We are excited to announce new features and optimizations designed to empower our users across all three primary phases of the FinOps lifecycle: Inform, Optimize, and Operate.
Inform
Data Connect
CloudHealth is excited to announce the general availability of Data Connect as part of the new CloudHealth experience. The capability is launched with two key offerings: Custom File Upload and an Automated Out-of-the-Box (OOTB) Connector for Databricks. As part of the general availability, we have made the following enhancements to Data Connect capability.
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Ability to “Browse” and upload files from Local: Data Connect now supports a “Browse and Upload” option that allows you to directly upload files from your local system. Previously, data ingestion required configuring and connecting a cloud storage bucket. With this enhancement, you can quickly upload files without any infrastructure setup - making it easier to validate use cases, run ad-hoc analyses, and achieve faster time to value. Please note that existing storage bucket ingestion remains fully supported for automated and large-scale data pipelines.
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On-demand Data Collection: In addition to the scheduled 12-hour data refresh, you can now trigger data collection on demand. This gives you immediate access to the latest data without waiting for the next scheduled run, enabling faster analysis and decision-making.
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Support for Parquet: Alongside CSV, Parquet support allows you to ingest larger datasets more efficiently while maintaining flexibility in how external data is modeled and analyzed within CloudHealth.
Smart Summary: Drilldown
CloudHealth is excited to announce drilldown capability on Smart Summaries. Clicking on a smart summary now opens a statement view that gives you resource level detail on what contributed to each smart summary.
Manage columns can be used to add or remove columns to the statement view. The export button exports the selected columns in the statement view. To go back to smart summaries from the statement view, click the back button.
Optimize
AWS Rightsizing: Support for tags data across all services in Recommendations API and Export
CloudHealth has enhanced Rightsizing Recommendations by extending tag visibility beyond EC2. You can now export rightsizing recommendations across AWS services - including EC2, RDS, OpenSearch, EBS, ElastiCache, Redshift, DynamoDB, and S3 - with an additional ‘Tags’ column. With tag data now available through both the Recommendations API and export, you can easily categorize, filter, and integrate optimization insights into your external workflows, reporting, and governance processes. This enhancement enables consistent analysis across services and helps teams drive more targeted, accountable, and scalable optimization efforts.
Public Beta | Azure Rightsizing for All Available Services
CloudHealth is excited to announce that Azure rightsizing recommendations are now available for a broad range of services, including but not limited to Virtual Machines, Disks, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Kubernetes Service, Databricks Workspaces, Cosmos DB, Data Factory, Data Explorer, Log Analytics Workspaces, Front Door Service, App Services etc. Recommendations will be of type Terminate, Downsize, Autoscale or Optimize Configuration based on the service under consideration. Public beta includes initial integration with Azure Advisor recommendations, and during the transition to General Availability, we will be enriching base recommendations from Azure with platform constructs and capabilities (such as perspective support), to make these recommendations more usable and actionable.
Operate
Realized Savings: Drilldown for Commitments
CloudHealth is excited to announce drilldown capability for commitment savings from Realized Savings Dashboard. You can now drill down into rate optimization elements (Savings Summary, Commitment Savings, Coverage and Utilization) to see the underlying data and calculations behind the reported values in the dashboard. This enhancement provides greater transparency and makes it easier to reconcile savings and validate results.
For Our Partners
Partners | AWS Database Savings Plan Support in Partner Billing
CloudHealth now is able to recalculate Database Savings Plans across all supported services (including Neptune and OpenSearch) for consolidated configurations! We will apply the same logic that AWS does with prioritizing greatest savings advantage first while supporting account affinity. We now recommend purchasing Database Savings Plans across your customer base.
Turning Insight into Action
The FinOps journey can seem daunting, but you don't have to go it alone. CloudHealth is your essential partner, built on a foundation of clarity, actionability, and measurable ROI. Whether you're just starting to define your FinOps strategy or looking to scale existing efforts across a multi-cloud environment, our platform is designed to transform financial management from a reactive exercise into a proactive, strategic capability.
Ready to accelerate your FinOps journey and unlock the next level of cloud efficiency? Explore the new features today with a free trial, and let CloudHealth help you build a culture of financial accountability and continuous optimization.