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: 06/27/2025
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Type
Terraform
Provider
IBM
Category
Migration
Last updated
06/27/2025
Product version
1.2.1
Variation
Standard
Est. deployment time:
5min
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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:

Creating Key Protect Encrypted COS Buckets to store your daily billing snapshots.
Setup writing of billing snapshots to the COS Bucket.
Grant IBM Cloudability access to read from the COS buckets
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 variation

Standard

Variation version

Starts at

$0.00

Monthly

Est. deployment time: 5min

Standard Cloudability Enablement

Starting from

$0.00/month

Standard

Easily add your IBM Cloud account

Use automation to reliably and consistently perform all of steps to add your IBM Cloud account to an existing IBM Cloudability account.

Integration validation

Verifies that the integration to IBM Cloudability is successful so you are confident that the integration is setup correctly.

Observability

Integration with monitoring and audit logging is enabled by default.

*Starting cost is an estimate based on available data as of June 27th, 2025. It does not include all resources, usage, licenses, fees, discounts, or taxes.

Standard Cloudability Enablement

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
	AU	Audit and Accountability

	CP	Contingency Planning

	SC	System and Communications Protection

	SI	System and Information Integrity

Getting support

Working on support enablement

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

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