North 2.0
🚀 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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