> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.noros.ai/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.noros.ai/other/powered-by-north.md). # 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. You can also keep the charts, tables, and numbers you check often on your own [dashboard](/features/dashboards.md). ### 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 North's Coverage is the commitment engine. It does not only report on your commitments. It buys them and manages them for you, through two mechanisms. You can run either one on its own, or set what share of your coverage runs on each. * **Autobot** buys commitments into your own account, and you own them. You set a coverage target once. You then choose a coverage profile, which sets the share committed in the first month, the share added month over month after that, and the mix of one-year and three-year terms. North issues new recommendations every month and buys against your policy. * **Flexbot** is coverage North holds for you, in its own accounts. You are never on the hook for a long-term cloud commitment. North takes the full term and the risk that comes with it, so your usage can scale up or down without an inflexible contract. North retrieves commitments in as little as the same day, and in seven days on average. * **The Auto / Flex control** divides your target between the two. It does not change how much coverage you end up with. It changes how fast you get there, because Autobot builds up gradually while Flexbot can fill its share at once. * **A recommended maximum** marks the point where more coverage stops paying for itself. North calculates it from your own usage and recalculates it every month, so your target moves with your spend. * **99% utilization.** North holds commitment utilization at 99%. That is the level of the top 1% for global cloud efficiency. * North covers AWS Savings Plans and Reserved Instances, Google Cloud Committed Use Discounts, and Azure reservations and savings plans. Flexbot is available on AWS Compute, Database, and SageMaker Savings Plans. #### Purpose-Built Pages Noros builds its own dashboard from the widgets you ask for. North adds a page designed around each feature area, with controls a chat request cannot reach: * **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 Noros can read your Coststreams data and answer questions about it. North is where you build and configure it. Coststreams let you slice your cloud spend by team, business unit, environment, project, or any attribute, through a visual flow-based interface that creates dynamic, real-time groupings well 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) Noros reports North's rightsizing recommendations in chat. North is where you act on them. The Reshaping engine uses real-time CloudWatch metrics and machine learning to deliver precise, instance-level recommendations, and wraps them in a workflow: * **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? 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