Introducing DoiT CloudFlow, a no-code FinOps workflow solution that streamlines cloud operations and enhances cost efficiency across complex environments. With CloudFlow, you can build API-driven  automations that meet your unique business and operational needs within AWS, Google Cloud, and DoiT Cloud Intelligence.

CloudFlow empowers your organization to take action on FinOps recommendations, optimize workloads, reduce waste, and improve cost management. It works in conjunction with other DoiT Cloud Intelligence features, such as Insights, to proactively surface optimization opportunities. This allows you to identify and address inefficiencies early, leading to significant cost savings and better resource utilization.

This powerful tool not only improves your operational efficiency but also fosters collaboration within and across teams with one-touch approvals via email or Slack.

With its customizable blue prints, you can quickly implement best practices, ensuring cost optimization and compliance with minimal setup time. Plus, CloudFlow provides a detailed run history to help teams track workflow execution, troubleshoot, and ensure compliance with audit requirements.

Whether you're dealing with complex approval processes, dynamically managing cloud resources, or seeking to enhance FinOps adoption across your organization, CloudFlow can help your company save time and money.

Start creating your first CloudFlow today and experience the power of automated, intelligent FinOps management. 

Track and optimize your Datadog consumption alongside your cloud(s) spend with our latest integration for FinOps and engineering teams seeking unified visibility across all their IT investments. After connecting your Datadog account, you can explore your Datadog costs and usage in the DoiT console in several ways:

1. Datadog Lens: Ready-to-use dashboard providing a comprehensive overview of your Datadog usage.

2. Cost Allocation: Allocate your Datadog consumption and tags alongside your cloud and other 3rd-party tooling costs to business groupings with Attributions and Attribution Groups. See the example below:

Production Environment costs are defined via an Attribution as A) any resource in a Google Cloud project containing “prod” OR B) where any resource tagged with a Datadog environment tag with a value of prod:

3. Custom Reports: Build reports that help you understand aspects of your Datadog spend. For example:

Platform costs broken down by environment (for understanding how your different environments are impacting overall costs across your cloud(s) and Datadog)

Costs per host where a Datadog agent is installed (so that you can learn which resources have the agent installed or driving the cost)

Dashboard popularity trends (for identifying which dashboards are used the least that you might want to remove or modify)

4. Anomaly Detection: Automatically surface unusual patterns in your teams’ Datadog usage and take action before it impacts your bill and operations.

5. Unified view of IT costs: View Datadog costs alongside your cloud costs in Pulse dashboard, a preset dashboard giving you an at-a-glance view of all your cloud and 3rd party tooling costs together.

The Datadog integration is available for all the customers on the DoiT Cloud Intelligence Enhanced or Enterprise tiers, as well as on the DoiT Cloud Navigator Enhanced, Premium or Enterprise tiers. To learn more about Datadog integration please check out our documentation in the DoiT Help Center.

DoiT Cloud Intelligence now has a new Google-specific Insight that Google Cloud customers may not know about yet, but which will soon be critical to avoid unnecessary spend increases. This new Insight detects Cloud SQL major versions that reach end-of-life (EOL) by their developer communities. If your instance is running an EOL major version, then you will be charged for extended support starting on May 1, 2025.

As with our other Insights recommendations, we provide you with the total estimated savings for your infrastructure, broken down by project and instance so you can better prioritize your action plan. You can also engage the DoiT support team directly from the page, or create a Thread to alert your engineering team via Jira.

To read more about the latest Insights releases and how these can help you manage your cloud spend, read our latest blog post.

Note: Insights is available to DoiT Cloud Intelligence Enhanced and Enterprise customers

DoiT Insights now surfaces Security & Cost Optimization recommendations from AWS Trusted Advisor, allowing you to view all your recommendations — both DoiT-generated (automated + via DoiT experts) and Trusted Advisor-generated — from the DoiT console.

To view your Trusted Advisor recommendations, you will need to link any AWS accounts with AWS Business Support and above to the DoiT console. When going to your Insights main page you will see a banner highlighting that you have AWS accounts eligible for Trusted Advisor-generated insights:

Click on Add permissions and you will be directed to the account setup page filtered to the right accounts.

Following this release, which focuses on the Cost Optimization and Security check categories, we’ll continue to work on incorporating the rest of the check categories (ex. Performance) into DoiT Insights.

Note: Trusted Advisor recommendations are only available for resources in AWS accounts with AWS Business Support and above.

DoiT Cost Anomaly Detection has added a new enhancement to simplify your anomaly management workflow. Previously, you could acknowledge anomalies, categorize them, and add comments directly within the console. Now, we’re bringing this functionality to your Slack!

Anomaly acknowledgment is a crucial step in managing your alerts—by marking anomalies as acknowledged, you can easily track which issues have been addressed and which still require attention. This ensures you stay on top of what needs resolution and helps avoid overlooking critical alerts.

With this new update, when you receive an anomaly notification via Slack, you can acknowledge, categorize, and add comments directly from the notification itself—no need to navigate to the console. This update saves you time and helps you stay on top of important alerts faster, all from the convenience of your Slack channel. Below are some of the screens:

Acknowledge option in Slack notifications

Acknowledge anomaly workflow in Slack

To learn more about acknowledge anomaly via Slack, check out our documentation in the Help Center. 

Cloud billing can get complex, and unexpected costs can catch you off guard. Now, you can be notified whenever a new SKU appears in your billing data—helping you stay informed, avoid surprises, and take control of your cloud spend.

This new notification type enables you to:

• Stay ahead of changes: Get alerts for new SKUs that could impact costs.
• Flexible delivery: You can choose how to receive alerts—via Slack, Email, Microsoft Teams, or directly in the app.

How it works?

• A new SKU is defined as one that has not appeared in your billing data for at least three months.
• Subscribers can configure how and where to receive these alerts.

You can manage or unsubscribe from this notification anytime in the Governance section under Notification Settings in the Notification Center.

Want to get started? Check out our setup guide in the Help Center.

We've redesigned the anomaly details interface in DoiT Anomaly Detection to make critical information easier for you to scan and understand. The new layout organizes key data into clear sections:

• Status and timeline
• Cost impact and severity
• Account, Service and SKU context
• Next steps

All of the detailed insights you rely on are still there, just presented in a more digestible format. Check out the refreshed interface in the screenshot below, or view an anomaly on your own account.

To learn more about Anomaly Detection, check out our documentation in the Help Center.

We have revamped our Budgets! They now support:

1. Flexible Scoping: You can now define a budget scope with any dimension you like, for example a set of accounts or projects, one or multiple regions… you name it!
2. Budget vs. Actuals View: Quickly see how you are performing toward your budget for the period.

The new Budget vs. Actuals View is designed to give you a detailed and comprehensive look at performance following your budgets. This view allows you to easily compare your projected budget with the actual expenses incurred in the current period. This gives you a clear understanding of where your money is being spent and helps you identify any areas where you may be overspending. You can also view your spending forecast, allowing you to make informed decisions before it is too late.

You can access the new Budget Versus Actuals View by clicking on View budget in the 3-dot menu for your budget:

We continue to improve Budgets and will be releasing some more exciting news soon!

DoiT Forecasting is now enhanced with the support of "Forecast per grouping" in addition to the "Total forecast".

Planning for future cloud spend just got easier and more granular. The forecasting capability in Cloud Analytics is now able to project future spend using the ‘Group by’ dimension for current and future months. By forecasting each ‘Group by’ dimension’s value, you’ll be able to:

• Help engineering teams set realistic hiring/expansion plans based on their infrastructure spend trajectory
• Track cost ratios between environments (e.g., dev should be 1/10th of prod) to ensure healthy spend allocation
• Surface zombie projects or accounts that should be flat/declining but show growth

Below is the "Forecast per grouping” view once enabled 

To learn more about Forecasting per grouping please refer to the Forecasting documentation in the Help Center.