One of the most requested features since launching the ability to show the differences between columns in our analytics tools, has been the ability to sort.  We are pleased to announce that in any tabular view, you can now sort by an individual column by clicking on that column header.  

This feature enhancement will allow you to quickly see the largest % or absolute change, or even the largest cost or savings within a given time period.  We hope this flexibility allows customers to more quickly identify and act on the most important numbers in any given view.

Are you paying flat-rate for BigQuery? Wondering if you should be? In either case, you're going to love this BigQuery Lens update!

What's new with the BigQuery Lens?

• Segment insights between projects using on-demand vs. flat-rate pricing models
• Two new recommendations for 1) optimizing slots usage and 2) reducing spend on on-demand projects by purchasing slots
• Track average and peak slots usage with the new Slots Consumption widget
• Zoom in/out on your BigQuery usage with a time range dropdown

Check out the updates in the video below, or explore them in the BigQuery Lens yourself.

We are pleased to announce the ability to better understand your budget cost drivers by Investigating your budget. This feature opens a Cloud Analytics report grouped by service that allows you to see and understand what costs contribute to your configured budgets. By using the full power of our analytics tools, you can understand quickly what changes in your usage impacted your budget most over its term.

In an effort to provide more consistent analytics across multiple clouds and platforms we are renaming one of the dimensions in our Analytics feature.  Until now the dimension `Project` contained both GCP Projects and AWS Accounts.  This dimension will now be listed as `Scope`. This language is consistent with other areas of our platform that you use today, like Cost Anomalies

In addition, to provide more clarity for AWS customers, we are renaming the dimension `Accounts` to `Billing Accounts`.

Starting today, users you invite are assigned default notifications tailored to their Cloud Management Platform IAM role. These notifications are designed to ensure users are informed about important events related to their job function. For example, users with 'Finance User' permission will have 'Cloud Cost Anomalies,' 'Payment Due/Overdue,' and  'New Invoices' notifications enabled by default. 

Similarly, users with the 'Power User' role get the 'Cloud Known Issues,' 'Cloud Quota Utilization,' 'Cloud Cost Anomalies', and 'Daily Digest notifications. 

Note that these default notifications would only be assigned to the new users you invite and won't affect existing users.

Check our updated help center article at https://help.doit-intl.com/notifications/default-notifications

We are excited to share with you several updates for the DoiT Cloud Management Platform (CMP). Specifically, a completely overhauled navigation system and a bunch of other quality-of-life improvements.

What are the highlights?

• Better navigation structure that improves CMP feature discoverability
• We have replaced the growing list of title-less navigation icons with text labels
• Improved experience for mobile and tablet users

Watch a one-minute explainer of the updates below:

GKE Lens provides a way for you to consistently measure your Google Kubernetes Engine clusters against best practices and identify areas for improvement. The GKE Lens dashboard is automatically created when GKE workloads are detected in your accounts and include the following information:

• GKE nodes cost, including forecast
• Master nodes cost
• Top k8s namespaces
• Top k8s clusters
• k8s resources breakdown (CPU, memory, disks)
• Interactive GKE Cost Explorer helping you to drill down from regions to pods interactively.

The information on the GKE Lens is updated every hour to bring the most up-to-date data to your fingertips. 

Using GKE but still didn't enable GKE Analytics in Cloud Management Platform? Learn how to onboard yourself to GKE Analytics at https://help.doit-intl.com/cloud-analytics/gke-cost-analytics

Today, we are streamlining the user invitation process by making it possible to specify user roles directly from the "Invite User" dialog. 

If your organization is using the "Default role" feature, this role will be preselected automatically when you invite users to the Cloud Management Platform.

We here at DoiT International always prioritize the security and trust of our customers. So we work hard to ensure and protect their privacy and data.

This is why we are pleased as punch to announce DoiT International is now SOC 2 Type II compliant!

With this compliance, our Cloud Management Platform, including FlexSave, SpotScaling, and Cloud Analytics continues to demonstrate how we cover privacy, security, and confidentiality.

SOC 2 is a framework applicable to all SaaS companies that store customer data to ensure that organizational controls and practices effectively safeguard customer and client data privacy and security.

Adjusting the time-range filter in your FlexSave dashboard will now generate a corresponding change in your FlexSave savings chart.

Watch the 57-second video below to see the update in action!