Powered by North
Noros is powered by North, an AI-driven cloud FinOps platform trusted by hundreds of companies to optimize over $600M in cloud spend. Everything Noros does — cost analysis, anomaly detection, optimization recommendations, commitment health monitoring is built on top of North's enterprise-grade data processing and machine learning infrastructure.
What You Get with Noros
Noros gives you a powerful conversational interface to your cloud data. You can analyze costs, detect anomalies, find savings opportunities, monitor commitments, generate reports, and more — all through natural language.
What You Unlock with North
North is the full platform behind Noros. When you're ready for more, upgrading to North gives you everything in Noros plus:
Managed Commitment Savings (Arctic)
North doesn't just analyze your commitments, it actively manages them. With Arctic, North's AI-driven commitment engine:
Buys, sells, and exchanges savings plans and reserved instances on your behalf
Liquid Cloud Commitments let you scale up or down without being locked into rigid terms — retrieve commitments in as little as same-day, average 7 days
Autopilot mode provides fully autonomous commitment management with logged, auditable actions
Risk management — North assumes the commitment risk so you don't have to
Achieves 99% utilization for top 1% global cloud efficiency
Covers AWS Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and GCP Committed Use Discounts
Visual Dashboards & Pages
Full visual interfaces for every feature — not just conversational access:
Home Dashboard — KPI overview with projected spend, savings, anomalies, budgets, and FinOps score at a glance
Visibility — Interactive cost explorer with drag-and-drop filters, side-by-side comparisons, and ML-driven forecasting with up to 90-day projections
Commitment Health Ledger — Reservation-level detail with utilization rates, ESR, and historical tracking
Anomaly Management — Visual anomaly timeline with masking, feedback, and resolution tracking
Coststreams — Cost Allocation & Intelligence
Build and manage cost allocation structures through a visual flow-based interface. Coststreams let you slice your cloud spend by team, business unit, environment, project, or any attribute — creating dynamic, real-time groupings that go far beyond basic tagging:
Create Views — Build multiple perspectives on your cost data, like browser tabs for different stakeholders
Split and Filter — Slice costs at any depth using accounts, tags, services, or custom attributes with no limit on nesting
Business Units — Create organizational groupings with budgets, AI-powered budget recommendations, and budget health tracking (green/yellow/red status)
Cost Labels — Lightweight visual grouping of streams for categorization (customer-facing, internal tools, compliance, etc.)
Showback Reports — Generate pre-populated PDF reports for stakeholders at the business unit level
Cost Units — Connect cloud spend to business metrics (cost per customer, per transaction, per API call) with CSV/XLSX upload and a public API for automated integrations
ML-Driven Infrastructure Optimization (Reshaping)
North's Reshaping engine goes far beyond cost-based savings analysis. It uses real-time CloudWatch metrics and machine learning to deliver precise, instance-level optimization recommendations:
Resource-level right-sizing — Specific recommendations for EC2, ECS, EBS, Lambda, and Auto Scaling Groups based on actual CPU and memory utilization (P95 analysis)
Migration complexity scoring — Each recommendation includes a difficulty assessment so you can prioritize quick wins
Collaboration tools — Share recommendations via Slack, Jira, or email directly from the dashboard
Configuration — Customize look back periods (14/32/93 days), CPU/memory headroom, and analysis percentiles
Continuous learning — When recommendations are applied, results are measured and fed back into the models
GreenOps Dashboard
A dedicated sustainability dashboard with:
Carbon emissions tracking — Detailed breakdowns by resource, region, and service
Water and power usage — Estimates for your cloud infrastructure's environmental impact
Go Carbon Neutral — One-click initiation of carbon offset programs with documentation from North
Team Collaboration & Permissions
Advanced team features beyond what's available in Noros:
IAM Permissions — Granular, per-user access control over which cloud accounts and features each team member can see and use
Cohorts — Create groups of people and assign them ownership of specific business units, anomaly alerts, or reshaping recommendations
Anomaly sharing — Route individual anomalies to specific team members via Slack, email, or Jira with context attached
Budget accountability — Assign cohorts to own and monitor specific budget areas
How to Upgrade
Interested in upgrading to the full North platform? Visit north.cloud or contact [email protected] to learn more. Your existing cloud account connections and data carry over — no re-onboarding required.
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