North App Update: Elevating Your Savings with Enhanced UI and New Financial Insights

The North app is poised for an exciting update, featuring a visual overhaul and the introduction of new features designed to give users a crystal-clear view of their architecture's performance, alongside potential savings opportunities.

Enhancements to the Reservation Manager's UI - Opportunities Section

The Opportunities section of the Reservation Manager has been refined to showcase AI-recommended reservations prominently, empowering users to secure these reservations effortlessly through a streamlined one-click checkout process. This enhancement focuses on improving the checkout experience and ensuring transparent visibility at the instance level for AWS service-specific reservations, making it easier for users to make informed decisions.

New Features in the Reservation Manager - Ledger Section

The Ledger section has been expanded to include several key features aimed at enhancing the understanding and management of reservations. It now presents month-to-date (MTD) data and details on previous reservations linked to an account, alongside insights into the savings and utilization rates of reservations overseen by North. The latest additions to this section include:

• A FinOps Score: This new metric calculates the effective savings rate for each product, offering a straightforward way for users to gauge if their overall architecture is on the path to optimal savings.
• Reservation Health: This feature highlights savings plans and reserved instances that are not being fully utilized, providing a clear view of areas where efficiency can be improved.
• Effective Savings Rates and FinOps Score per Product: This detailed breakdown shines a light on savings opportunities, or the lack thereof, for each product, allowing users to pinpoint where adjustments can be made to maximize efficiency and savings.

These updates are geared towards empowering users with the tools and insights needed to optimize their architecture's cost efficiency and performance.