Combined Cloud Cost Management release notes for upgrades from Xanadu to Australia

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title: Combined Cloud Cost Management release notes for upgrades from Xanadu to Australia
description: Consolidated page of all release notes for Cloud Cost Management from Xanadu to Australia.
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last_updated: "2026-09-15"
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# Combined Cloud Cost Management release notes for upgrades from Xanadu to Australia

Consolidated page of all release notes for Cloud Cost Management from Xanadu to Australia.

## How to use this page

To help you prepare for your upgrade, we have combined the cross-family Cloud Cost Management release notes onto one page. Read this summary of the new features, changes, and updated information for your product from Xanadu to Australia.

**Tip:** If there were no updates for a release notes section in a certain family release, we included a short note for your reference. For example, if a product did not have any updates in Tokyo, the row says "No updates for this release."

## Important information for upgrading Cloud Cost Management to Australia

Before you upgrade to Australia, review these pre- and post-upgrade tasks and complete the tasks as needed.

<table class="custom-rows"><thead><tr><th class="filter">

Release

</th><th>

Release notes

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Xanadu

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Yokohama

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Zurich

</td><td>

-   **Upgrade information**

The Cloud Cost Management platform support is available beginning with the Xanadu release. For instructions on upgrading Cloud Cost Management to Zurich, see [Upgrade Cloud Insights](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=upgrade-cloud-insights-to-version-3-0&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US).


</td></tr><tr><td>

Australia

</td><td>

-   **Upgrade information**

The Cloud Cost Management platform support is available beginning with the Xanadu release. For instructions on upgrading Cloud Cost Management to Australia, see [Upgrade Cloud Cost Management](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=upgrade-cloud-insights-to-version-3-0&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US).


</td></tr></tbody>
</table>## New features

Between your current release family and Australia, new features were introduced for Cloud Cost Management.

<table class="custom-rows"><thead><tr><th class="filter">

Release

</th><th>

Release notes

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Xanadu

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Yokohama

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Zurich

</td><td>

-   **[Achieve better efficiency with faster retrieval of cost and usage data with the Azure Export method](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=schedule-azure-billing-job&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US)**

Manage cost and usage datasets in Azure billing downloads efficiently by using the Azure Export method. With this feature, you can retrieve larger cost datasets faster.

-   **[Manage MCA contracts with the enhanced support for Microsoft Azure MCA](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=create-ms-azure-service-principal&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US)**

Gain access to the spend reporting and recommendations for Azure based MCA contracts. This feature helps you to visualize cost and usage data from Azure MCA accounts and optimize your cloud spend with recommendations for potential savings.


</td></tr><tr><td>

Australia

</td><td>

-   **[Make smarter cloud cost decisions with AI-powered summarization of cloud spend](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=spend-summary-otto-ccm&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US)**

Get an AI-generated summary of your cloud spend trends, top cost drivers, and budget alignment with your selected filters and groupings. The **Summarize** button enables you to view month-over-month changes, commitments coverage, and the top five recommendations to reduce costs. Use these insights to make more informed decisions about your cloud spend.

-   **[Get complete cost visibility with TCO and unit economics](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=business-insights-ccm-ws&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US)**

Enhance total spend analysis with TCO insights for your business applications by combining cloud costs with non-cloud costs such as hardware, software licensing, and labor. Upload business data to track revenue, units, and margins alongside your cloud costs using the Unit Economics view. Use the new Business Insights view to analyze spending trends by application owner, business application, department, business unit, and cost center.

-   **[Get complete cost visibility with TCO and unit economics](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=business-insights-ccm-ws&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US)**

Enhance total spend analysis with TCO insights for your business applications by combining cloud costs with non-cloud costs such as hardware, software licensing, and labor. Upload business data to track revenue, units, and margins alongside your cloud costs using the Unit Economics view. Use the new Business Insights view to analyze spending trends by application owner, business application, department, business unit, and cost center.

-   **[Manage cloud spend attribution with the tag category source selection capability](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=tag-category-source&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US)**

Align cloud spend attribution with your organization's enterprise architecture \(EA\) by selecting a tag category source. Instead of manually tagging resources in each cloud provider, derive business context automatically from existing CMDB relationships. This feature eliminates duplicate tagging effort and ensures that cost reports reflect the same taxonomy already maintained in your ServiceNow instance.

-   **[Streamline spend analysis with saved, shared, and reusable report views](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=spend-anaytics&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US)**

Eliminate repetitive setup using Spend analytics filters, time ranges, groupings, and cost types and apply your saved views instantly without manual reconfiguration. Set a default view to load your preferred configuration automatically every time you open the Spend Analytics page. Mark frequently used views as favorites or set a default view to streamline your daily workflow.

-   **[Experience reorganized Cloud Cost Management Workspace with intuitive navigation and broader visibility](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=ci-workspace&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US)**

Navigate cloud cost data more efficiently with a reorganized structure within the Cloud Cost Management Workspace. Drill down from any home page widget directly into detailed spend analytics.

This enhancement provides the Insights User \(insights\_user\) role read-only access to Optimization and Budget pages so they can review recommendations, unused resources, rightsizing suggestions, and budget data.


</td></tr></tbody>
</table>## Changes

Between your current release family and Australia, some changes were made to existing Cloud Cost Management features.

<table class="custom-rows"><thead><tr><th class="filter">

Release

</th><th>

Release notes

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Xanadu

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Yokohama

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Zurich

</td><td>

-   **Coral theme**

Coral is now the default theme for new portal, web, and mobile experiences with Next Experience or Core UI enabled. This theme provides a fresh look and feel, featuring brand-neutral illustrations to enhance your user experience. A dark theme option is available for web and mobile experiences.

-   **[Use Exports option on the Azure Billing Download Job form](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=schedule-azure-billing-job&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US)**

The **Use Exports** option is selected by default. This option is used for the Azure Export method.

-   **[New fields on the Azure Billing Download Job form when the Use Exports option is selected](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=schedule-azure-billing-job&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US)**

Three new fields, **Billing Account Id Type**, **Actual Cost Export Name**, and **Amortized Cost Export Name**, have been added to the Azure Billing Download Job form. These fields appear when the **Use Exports** option is selected.


</td></tr><tr><td>

Australia

</td><td>

-   **[Optimization view on the Cloud Cost Management Workspace](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=optimization-view-ccm-ws&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US)**

The Recommendations have been moved from the Operations view to the newly added Optimization view in the Cloud Cost Management Workspace. The Optimization view shows savings opportunities and recommendations for you across Unused resources, Rightsizing, Business hours, and Commitments.


</td></tr></tbody>
</table>## Removed

Between your current release family and Australia, some Cloud Cost Management features or functionality were removed.

<table class="custom-rows"><thead><tr><th class="filter">

Release

</th><th>

Release notes

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Xanadu

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Yokohama

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Zurich

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Australia

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>## Deprecations

Between your current release family and Australia, some Cloud Cost Management features or functionality were deprecated.

<table class="custom-rows"><thead><tr><th class="filter">

Release

</th><th>

Release notes

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Xanadu

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Yokohama

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Zurich

</td><td>

The current mechanism for the Azure billing download is planned for deprecation. With this deprecation, the Export option remains the default method for the Azure billing download.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Australia

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>## Activation information

Review information on how to activate Cloud Cost Management.

<table class="custom-rows"><thead><tr><th class="filter">

Release

</th><th>

Release notes

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Xanadu

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Yokohama

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Zurich

</td><td>

-   **Activation information**

Install Cloud Cost Management by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. Visit the [ServiceNow Store](https://store.servicenow.com/sn_appstore_store.do#!/store/home) website to view all the available apps and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the [ServiceNow Store version history release notes](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sn-store-release-notes&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US).


</td></tr><tr><td>

Australia

</td><td>

-   **Activation information**

Install Cloud Cost Management by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. Visit the [ServiceNow Store](https://store.servicenow.com/sn_appstore_store.do#!/store/home) to view all the available apps, and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the [ServiceNow Store version history release notes](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sn-store-release-notes&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US).


</td></tr></tbody>
</table>## Additional requirements

If any additional requirements were introduced or changed for Cloud Cost Management we have noted them here.

<table class="custom-rows"><thead><tr><th class="filter">

Release

</th><th>

Release notes

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Xanadu

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Yokohama

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Zurich

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Australia

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>## Browser requirements

If any specific browser requirements were introduced or changed for Cloud Cost Management we have noted them here.

<table class="custom-rows"><thead><tr><th class="filter">

Release

</th><th>

Release notes

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Xanadu

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Yokohama

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Zurich

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Australia

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>## Accessibility information

Review details on accessibility information for Cloud Cost Management, such as specific requirements or compliance levels.

<table class="custom-rows"><thead><tr><th class="filter">

Release

</th><th>

Release notes

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Xanadu

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Yokohama

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Zurich

</td><td>

-   **Accessibility information**
    -   **Dark theme**

The new Coral theme includes a dark theme option for web and mobile experiences. This option is commonly used to alleviate eye strain and improve readability.


</td></tr><tr><td>

Australia

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>## Localization information

If there are specific localization considerations for Cloud Cost Management we have noted them here.

<table class="custom-rows"><thead><tr><th class="filter">

Release

</th><th>

Release notes

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Xanadu

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Yokohama

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Zurich

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Australia

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>## Highlight information

If there are specific highlight considerations for Cloud Cost Management we have noted them here.

<table class="custom-rows"><thead><tr><th class="filter">

Release

</th><th>

Release notes

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Xanadu

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Yokohama

</td><td>

No updates for this release.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Zurich

</td><td>

-   Retrieve cost and usage data faster from the Azure billing download by using the Azure Export method.
-   Leverage Azure Microsoft Customer Agreement \(MCA\) to optimize spend reporting and recommendations for potential savings.

 See [Cloud Cost Management](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=cloud-insights-landing-page&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US) for more information.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Australia

</td><td>

-   Gain visibility by discovering cloud resources from all service providers across your environment.
-   Achieve resource optimization with analysis of cloud costs by cost center, business service, and custom entity.
-   Optimize cloud costs using recommendations to reduce unnecessary spending.

 See [Cloud Cost Management](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=cloud-insights-landing-page&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) for more information.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>**Parent Topic:**[Products combined by family](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/delta-xanadu-australia/rn-combined-intro.md)