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What Does Ava Offer?

• Suggest technical solutions related to AWS, GCP, and Azure  - all powered by DoiT massive internal knowledge base.
• Generate Cloud Analytics reports using natural language. Ask questions about your spend, waste or available optimizations.
• Answer questions related to DoiT Cloud Navigator, such as how to add users, create attribution groups, or anything else!

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Ava is included in all DoiT Cloud Navigator and Solve plans.

Starting today, you can access your cost anomaly notifications directly within the DoiT Cloud Navigator user interface. This allows you to stay informed and take immediate action when anomalies occur without leaving the platform. In-app notifications also include a history, ensuring you never miss a critical alert. To access in-app notifications and view your history, press the notification bell button located in the upper right corner of DoiT Cloud Navigator:

This is just the beginning! We’re starting with cost anomaly notifications and will add more notifications in the upcoming weeks. 

DoiT Cloud Navigator now supports private Slack channels to increase customization, reduce noise, and enhance the privacy of sensitive notifications.

Notifications in private Slack channels allow targeting of critical information to the right people and enable secure communication of sensitive information. Create the perfect notification strategy with a mix of private and public Slack channels and emails.

To send notifications to both private and public Slack channels, you need the latest version of the DoiT Slack app. Once your app is up to date, you can start sending notifications to private channels.

Learn more about setting up private Slack channels in our Notification Center documentation.

– Doit Product Team

We know the importance of timely invoice access, which is why we've launched proforma invoices to facilitate early review. Building on this foundation, we're now eager to explore additional ways to enhance your invoicing experience!

Introducing real-time notifications for proforma invoices:

Starting today, subscribe to receive immediate notifications when your Proforma Invoices are generated. This feature is designed to keep you ahead in your financial planning by providing timely updates and empowering you to promptly take necessary actions.

Benefits of this new feature:

• Instant Alerts: The moment your proforma invoice is ready, you’ll receive an alert. No delays, no waiting.
• Direct Access: Each notification provides a convenient link to view your proforma invoice in the Cloud Navigator Console, ensuring seamless access for your review.
• Customizable Notifications: Choose to receive notifications based on specific billing profiles that matter most to you, ensuring relevant updates at your fingertips.

To subscribe to proforma invoice notifications, you can visit our Help Center where you will find a step-by-step guide on setting it up. Alternatively, you can open a ticket with our support team to receive personal assistance.

At DoiT, we are committed to continually improving our users' experience and simplifying every aspect of their interaction in DoiT Cloud Navigator. 

--DoiT Product Team

As a business it is imperative that you view and reconcile your invoices as quickly as possible at the start of each month.  Now, with our Proforma Invoices, you can see your invoices prior to official issuance.  

They allow you to:

• Preview your invoice settings and billing information.
• Review your estimated bill before receiving the actual invoice.
• Contact us if you want to update any of the billing information you see before we issue your final invoice.
• Enjoy greater transparency and control over your billing process.

You can access proforma invoices up until we issue your final invoice. Once we issue your final invoice, you can’t see proforma invoices any longer.

To access proforma invoices:

1. Log in to the DoiT Console.
2. Navigate to Billing and then, select Invoices.
3. In the Status dropdown, select Proforma to view all your proforma invoices.

To learn more about proforma invoices check out our Help Center documentation, or raise a support ticket to speak with one of our experts.

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We've rolled out a significant update to the filtering and grouping features within our reporting tools that should simplify and expedite your cloud cost and usage reporting journey.

Direct Search Input

You can now enter any service name, SKU, or label value directly into the filter or group-by fields. The system automatically identifies and applies the appropriate category for your input to your report settings. This eliminates the need to manually search through categories or remember specific taxonomy distinctions like "EC2" for Services versus "ComputeSP" for SKUs.

Label Matching

For label values, the need to specify the corresponding label key is removed. Inputting a value such as "production" or "matt_k" is enough; our system will match it to the correct key. This reduces the overhead of knowing exact label structures and speeds up the configuration process.

In the example above, we are grouping the cost directly by selecting label values starting with "alloydb-proxy"

Selection Count Display

Both filter and group-by widgets now show the number of items you've selected. This feature provides immediate feedback on the scope of your reports and assists in managing complex data sets.

Availability:

Available to customers on all DoiT Cloud Navigator tiers, including Standard, Enhanced, Premium and Enterprise.

Given the nature of upfront payments for AWS Reserved Instances (RIs) and Savings Plans (SPs) – as well as the application of these discounts via DoiT Flexsave – calculating the amortization of these fees alongside the rest your cloud resource usage can lead to confusion when analyzing your cloud billing data. 

To overcome this, DoiT is happy to announce the availability of Amortized Costs and Amortized Savings as new metrics when analyzing your AWS data. You can select either of these metrics when creating reports in the Cloud Navigator console, which will spread out the upfront and recurring charges over the relevant time period to give you a more accurate picture of the effective daily costs of the workloads running in your AWS environment. This allows you to better predict future expenses, make budgeting decisions, and analyze the effectiveness of your savings strategies.

To learn more about DoiT’s Amortized Cost and Amortized Savings metrics, including a breakdown of how each applies to the different types of commitments and other discount mechanisms like Flexsave and Spot usage, check out our Help Center documentation, or raise a support ticket to speak with one of our experts.

Now, in the Notification Center, users with access to Invoices now have the ability to configure alerts based on specific billing profiles.

This tool expands our reach, allowing anyone with the appropriate permissions to subscribe to invoice alerts, and empowering you to make it easier to separate the noise from what's relevant.

Today, with our latest update, you can customize your experience to meet your specific needs, gaining granular control over the invoice notifications you receive. This enhancement enables you to selectively reduce noise and focus on the most relevant invoices by choosing the billing profile you wish to follow up on.

To learn more about configuring notifications for invoices by billing profile in DoiT's Navigator Notification Center, check out our Help Center.

Sincerely,
Product Team

We're thrilled to announce that DoiT now fully supports the Parquet format for ingesting Cost and Usage Report (CUR) data, alongside CSV. Parquet's efficiency in storage and data import can sometimes make it a preferred choice for our customers, reducing cloud storage fees due to its compact size and streamlining the import process.

Moving forward, customers have the flexibility to seamlessly send their CUR data in either Parquet or CSV format, empowering them to choose the option that best suits their needs.

We're happy to introduce the DoiT Invoice Explainer, an innovative tool to revolutionize how you view and understand your AWS Cloud spend invoices. This advancement underscores our dedication to providing unmatched services to you, our DoiT Cloud Advantage customers, making us the first in the industry to offer such a cutting-edge resource. 

Navigating the complexities of cloud billing can often be challenging, especially when dealing with two invoices: one from AWS to DoiT and another from DoiT to you. Each has its unique layout and pricing strategy, potentially leading to confusion.

That's where the Invoice Explainer steps in. Designed as a straightforward, guided journey, it simplifies these invoices by breaking down key components such as usage, savings plans, support costs, and discounts. This will drastically cut down the time you spend trying to understand your billing, transforming it into a seamless and transparent process. This initiative is part of our ongoing effort to enrich your experience with us, ensuring that every aspect of our service, including billing, is straightforward and hassle-free. Welcome to a new era of billing clarity with DoiT. To get started with this tool, please follow the instructions on our documentation.