Introducing Arctic: Cloud discounts that move with you

How should commitment management actually work? It’s a question we kept coming back to. Today, we’re excited to introduce Arctic—North.Cloud’s commitment automation engine designed to give teams predictable savings without locking them into long-term plans or burying them in spreadsheets.

When we launched North.Cloud, our goal was simple: help teams get more value from the cloud without asking them to overhaul how they work. We focused on visibility, automation, and real-world impact. But commitment management remained one of the biggest points of friction.

For most teams, it meant one of two things: a long manual process of approvals and guesswork, or signing contracts that made it harder to evolve infrastructure over time.

Arctic changes that. It continuously monitors usage, reallocates savings behind the scenes, and adapts automatically to new infrastructure needs. No request tickets, no dashboards to wrangle, no stress.

We see Arctic as a meaningful shift in how commitment management gets done—and we can’t wait to see how teams use it.

Let go of long-term commitment risk

Most commitment tools force you to trade flexibility for savings. You pick a plan, lock it in, and hope your infrastructure doesn’t change too much along the way.

But that’s rarely how teams operate in real life. Infrastructure shifts. Traffic spikes. Business priorities change. And being stuck in the wrong commitment can cost you more than not having one at all.

“With North.Cloud, we get the savings coverage we want without being locked in for 3 years. It’s so easy scaling up to optimize discounts and we feel safe having the option to also scale down." - Mihai Plesa, VP of DevOps, Brave

Arctic was built to give you the savings without the rigidity. It automatically adjusts coverage based on your real-time usage patterns, so you never have to guess how much to commit—or when. If your needs shift, Arctic shifts with you.

That means, you always get 3 year savings rates, without being in a long-term, rigid contract.

It works across AWS and GCP, continuously reallocating savings behind the scenes while surfacing insights in your dashboard. The result is smarter spend management without slowing your team down.

Automate savings without losing control

Managing cloud costs shouldn't feel like a full-time job. But for many teams, the only way to stay efficient is by reviewing dashboards, evaluating options, and approving savings plans manually—all while trying to keep pace with everything else.

Arctic changes that by automating commitment decisions behind the scenes, while still giving you full visibility and control when you want it.

You can opt in to Autopilot and let Arctic handle everything, or stay hands-on and review savings options on your terms. Every action is traceable, every recommendation is transparent, and every savings decision is easy to understand.

Whether you're ready to fully automate or prefer to approve along the way, Arctic adapts to your workflow.

Stay flexible as infrastructure changes

Whether you’re scaling up during a product launch or spinning down after a campaign, Arctic flexes with you. It tracks changes continuously and reallocates savings to match.

Diagram of how Arctic works
A diagram showing how liquid cloud commitments work within Arctic.

What makes this even more powerful is Arctic’s liquid cloud commitment feature, which gives North.Cloud the ability to dynamically pool and reassign savings across our private network of customers. Think of it like a closed-loop co-op—unused commitments from one team can be automatically matched with demand from another, giving everyone more flexibility without sacrificing control.

Participation means more than just automation. It means you gain access to a smarter network that learns and adapts, helping your infrastructure stay cost-efficient no matter how much it changes.

• Real-time usage detection and rebalancing
• Hourly recalculations based on current infrastructure state
• Shared savings logic that scales with the network
• Zero disruption to your team’s workflows

Built with security, speed, and scale in mind

Arctic was designed to be both powerful and secure. Behind the scenes, it uses a multi-layered approach to decouple visibility from action. Sensitive account access and permissions are tightly scoped, and every step of the optimization process is validated before changes are applied.

It learns from usage patterns in real time and constantly improves its decision-making by factoring in performance, reliability, and historical savings utilization. The result is smarter decisions, fewer gaps in coverage, and better use of your budget.

Start using Arctic today

Arctic is available now to all North.Cloud users. If you're already using the platform, you can enable it directly from your dashboard or reach out to our team for help setting it up.

If you’re new to North, book a demo or get started in 5 minutes to see how Arctic and the rest of the platform can help you save more, without the manual lift.