We are excited to announce the ability to quickly create Attributions within our Budgets feature.  Frequently you want to create budgets for something simple - a single project/account, a single tag, or a few services.  We created the ability to generate simple attributions in-line to the Budget management page to ease this process for customers.

Attributions are a powerful and essential tool within the CMP.  They allow you to provide context to parts of your cloud cost and usage.  Being able to report with business context provides clarity, insights, and eases the burden of collaboration across groups.  Understanding your spend across development teams, understanding cost drivers within a product or product line, or how it splits across your development environments allows your teams to make quick and consistent decisions.  

We continue to support attributions and this new pattern across more and more features - Cloud Analytics, Metrics, Organizations, Budgets, Daily Digests too!  

The FlexSave AWS widget displays a summary of your Compute savings as a result of using FlexSave.

Available in your AWS Lens Dashboard and addable to any custom dashboard, this widget gives an at-a-glance view of your monthly, year-to-date, and all-time FlexSave savings.

FlexSave helps you maximize Compute discounts with zero commitments, loss risk, or management on your part.

Starting today, you can view your FlexSave savings and other metrics in your local currency!

To set your currency, navigate to Settings -> General. For more information, read this Help Center article.

To improve the human readability of our cloud reporting we have added the week start date to the dimension itself. Previously we show weeks using the universal ISO Format W01 W02 W03 ... W21 W52. Now the format will be

w51 (Dec 20), W52 (Dec 27), W01 (Jan 03) ...

The data is reflective of the Monday that starts the week, consistent with the ISO standard week.

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: