Savings Opportunities

Find actionable ways to reduce cloud spending. Noros analyzes your cost and usage data to identify areas where you may be overspending and surfaces opportunities to optimize.

What Noros Can Identify

Commitment Coverage Gaps

Noros analyzes your on-demand vs. reserved vs. savings plan spend to identify where additional commitments could reduce costs:

• "What percentage of my compute is on-demand vs. reserved?"
• "Where do I have commitment coverage gaps?"
• "How much could I save with better savings plan coverage?"

High-Cost Services and Resources

Noros can pinpoint the services and resources driving your costs, helping you identify candidates for optimization:

• "What are my most expensive resources?"
• "Which services have the highest cost growth?"
• "Show me resources that cost more than $100/day"

Rightsizing Recommendations

Noros can report North's rightsizing recommendations for your resources, including the projected saving on each one:

• "What are my rightsizing recommendations?"
• "Which instances are oversized?"
• "How much would rightsizing save us this month?"

Spending Patterns and Waste

By analyzing your spending trends, Noros can surface patterns that suggest waste or inefficiency:

• "Are there any services I'm paying for but not actively using?"
• "What are my top savings opportunities?"
• "How can I reduce my EC2 costs?"

Purchase Type Optimization

Noros breaks down your spend by purchase type to show where on-demand pricing is costing you more than it needs to:

• "Break down my costs by on-demand vs. reserved vs. savings plans"
• "What's my spot instance usage?"
• "Which services would benefit most from reserved pricing?"

Example Conversations

Quick savings overview:

"What are my top savings opportunities?"

Noros analyzes your spending patterns and commitment coverage, then highlights the areas with the most potential for savings.

Coverage analysis:

"What percentage of my compute is on-demand?"

Noros breaks down your compute spend by purchase type and identifies how much of your eligible spend isn't covered by commitments.

Cost investigation:

"Which resources cost the most and are they right-sized?"

Noros identifies your highest-cost resources and provides context about their spending trends.

Go Further with North

Noros reports rightsizing recommendations in chat, so you can see what to change and what it would save. North is where you act on them. The full platform adds the workflow around each recommendation: instance-level detail for EC2, ECS, EBS, Lambda, and Auto Scaling Groups based on actual utilization metrics, migration complexity scoring, configurable look back periods and headroom, and sharing through Slack, Jira, or email with applied results tracked back into the models. Learn more about upgrading →