# Powered by North Noros is powered by [North](https://north.cloud), 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](https://north.cloud) or contact to learn more. Your existing cloud account connections and data carry over — no re-onboarding required. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.noros.ai/other/powered-by-north.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.