🚀 North.Cloud 2.0 Release Notes

Real-time commitment automation. Smarter rightsizing. AI-powered cost insights. Full GCP support.

North.Cloud 2.0 is here. Our biggest release yet, bringing a new level of intelligence and automation to how engineering and FinOps teams manage cloud spend at scale.

💡 Why North 2.0?

Over the last year, we’ve worked closely with some of the most advanced cloud teams on the planet >>> deep in AWS and GCP bills, juggling commitments, usage spikes, and spreadsheets. One thing became clear: cloud cost management still demands too much manual work.

North 2.0 is our answer.
This release introduces major improvements in:

• Real-time commitment automation
• Tagless cost allocation
• AI-powered cloud insights
• Expanded support for GCP
• A completely redesigned user experience

Let’s dive into what’s new.

❄️ Introducing Arctic

Adaptive Commitment Management for AWS & GCP

Activate Autopilot → Arctic takes over.

Traditional cloud commitments ask you to predict the future. Arctic doesn’t.

Arctic is our real-time commitment automation engine that dynamically reallocates your reservations based on actual usage across regions, accounts, and services — no more spreadsheets, guesswork, or overcommitment.

With Arctic, you can:

• Automatically avoid overcommitment and under-coverage
• Reuse idle commitments across clouds and regions
• Scale your commitment footprint in real time

📊 Early customers report up to 55% savings on compute.
🔗 Read more about Arctic →

📊 Smarter Cost Allocation with CostStreams

No Tags. No Problem.

Tags are inconsistent and hard to enforce. CostStreams lets you understand and allocate spend without relying on them.

• View spend by team, service, environment, or account
• Filter by resource state and tag completeness
• Generate clean exports for finance and reporting
• Map cloud costs directly to business units for showback and chargeback

💰 Built-in Budgets for Every Stream

Set thresholds, track usage, and catch overages before they happen — right inside CostStreams.

• Create budgets by team, account, or environment
• Get real-time Slack alerts when limits are close
• Drill into spikes and assign budget owners

🤖 Meet Agent North

Your AI Assistant for Cloud Cost Management

You don’t need more dashboards — you need faster answers.
Agent North lives inside the North app and Slack to help you move at speed.

Ask questions like:

• “What did we spend on GKE last week?”
• “Why did EC2 costs spike yesterday?”

Agent North can:

• Generate reports and summarize savings
• Detect anomalies and suggest optimizations
• Share insights directly to Slack or email

☁️ Full GCP Support

GCP users, rejoice. North.Cloud now delivers the same automation and insight we’ve built for AWS — across Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, and more.

With GCP support, you can:

• Automate savings with no tagging or contract lock-in
• Monitor anomalies and reshaping opportunities
• Manage AWS + GCP spend from a single dashboard
• Unlock average savings of 47% on Compute Engine and 28% on Cloud SQL

🔄 Reshaping, Rebuilt

Smarter Rightsizing with Context That Matters

Rightsizing shouldn’t be a guessing game. The new Reshaping experience makes it easier to:

• Identify idle and over-provisioned resources
• Compare current vs. recommended states
• View savings potential across prod, dev, and staging
• Push tasks to Jira or Slack for resolution and tracking

⚠️ Anomaly Detection, Overhauled

Stop guessing what caused the spike.

• Pinpoint anomalies by resource, service, and account
• Filter by severity and track resolution status
• See real dollar impacts with historical context
• Take immediate action — no spreadsheets required

🎛️ A New Interface, Built for Speed

We’ve redesigned North.Cloud to make cost management faster, clearer, and more actionable.

• A new homepage with usage KPIs and insights at a glance
• Improved filters and resource-level drilldowns in key tools
• Updated health dashboards with reservation scores and trends
• One-click actions to share, assign, or act directly from anywhere

✅ Try North.Cloud 2.0 Today

Whether you’re just getting started or scaling FinOps across clouds, North 2.0 is built to help your team:

• Cut waste
• Increase visibility
• Automate the busywork
• Align engineering and finance

👉 Create a free account or book a demo to see it in action.

North.Cloud 2.0 — Built for real FinOps. Ready for scale.

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