North's software can autonomously manage, purchase and insure GCP CUDs for the customer's Google Cloud usage.
North's platform will automatically detect & insure your existing GCP commitments, while also making new commitments for additional cost optimization.
North reserved the right to underwrite each customer individually, however will generally stick to 1 year CUDs for CloudSQL, and 3 year CUDs for Compute Engine (70-30 split, 70% or less being resource CUDs managed by North, 30% or more being flexible spend based CUDs insured by North).
FAQS on North's Google Cloud CUD Coverage
How does North insure my existing commitments?
North will detect and insure your existing commitments at North's underwritting discretion, extending your flexibility & peace of mind on all of your cloud commitments.
How are project based CUDs managed?
Project based CUDs are managed using North Savings Pod architecture. North creates projects with a folder in your GCP org, and enabled CUD sharing to let the projects hosting the infrastructure to enjoy North CUD savings.
Why is there a split in Compute Engine CUDs that you use?
Letting customers enjoy some of their coverage as spend based & flexible, enabled more architecture freedom. Overall spend based commitments typically allow customers to change server/DB type more often then resource based commitments, enabling faster server/DB improvements & change windows. Norths coverage mixes both coverage types together to give customers both deep savings, and flexibility.
What does service cancelation look like with insured commitments?
For CUDs managed by North, they will leave the org per our handoff windows in our MSA. For insured by North commitments, during a service cancelation, the customer agrees as part of cancelation to release North of any/all remaining payback obligations for the CUDs North was previously insuring, and takes over full commitment of that CUD.
Will you cover anything else for us, such as BigQuery or CloudSpanner?
Yes North plans to support additional GCP CUD types very soon. Check in with your North account team to let us know what we should support next.
100% Powered by AWS Compute Savings Plans.
North offers the best in class compute savings system, and the only provider in the industry to power their compute optimization 100% with flexible Compute Savings Plans. Additionally, CloudFront and SageMaker savings plans are also available.
Savings Plans Home Page Basics
Cost: Represents the last 30 days of total net spend for instance/compute charges for EC2, Lambda & ECS Fargate.
Savings Available: monthly savings available via North's compute saver program. Click SAVE NOW to subscribe & get started.
Spend Graph: offers a daily look at the compute spend by spend type (on-demand, spot instances, savings plans, reserved instances). Automatically showing the last 30 days.
Reservation Ledger & North Savings MTD Stats: Ledger shows your rate optimization health for both reservations made through North (identified with a pink dot) and those made directly to AWS (not flexible via the North program). Click VIEW MORE to expand to your reservation health page, and view advanced ESR and FinOps stats.
North offers automated commitment management for AWS & Google Cloud, ensuring customers can enjoy maximum product discounting while eliminating their risk or term commitment underutilization.
Commitments used will vary on the product being covered & the cloud ecosystem, as the commitment programs within each ecosystem varry.
North will ensure limited term commitment risk, enabling high coverage rates using two coverage models.
Managed by North
Refers to commitments using Norths Savings Pod system. Flexibility is ensured by removing unutilized commiments out of the customer billing org.
Insured by North
Refers to commitments where North will cover the hourly costs of any underutilization with cash-back or credits against your North invoice/fee. These commitments can be paid up to 100% of the monthly costs, out of pocket by North should the customer have 0% utilization(for example).
Please note that all commitment insurance and flexibbility terms are governed by our MSA. https://www.north.cloud/legal/terms-of-service
North offers flexible reserved instances for products not covered by compute savings plans. These RIs provide 3 year pricing optimization for AWS's relational database service (RDS), Opensearch & Elasticache.
RI Saver Home Page Basics
Cost: represents the last 30 days of total net spend for instance charges for RDS, OpenSearch & ElastiCache.
Savings Available: monthly savings available via North's compute saver program. Click SAVE NOW to subscribe & get started.
Spend Graph: offers a daily look at the compute spend by spend type (ondemand, reserved instances). Automatically showing the last 30 days.
Reservation Ledger & North Savings MTD Stats: Ledger shows your rate optimization health for both reservations made through North (identified with a pink dot) and those made directly to AWS (not flexible via the North program). Click VIEW MORE to expand to your reservation health page, and view advanced ESR and FinOps stats.
Details on North's Flexible RIs
North's RI Saver program offers customers the option to have North purchase RIs on the customer's behalf, without the traditional 3 year commitments. These RIs can always be purchased as new reservations with partial up front payment, or if the reservation type is available on our RI marketplace, you can request to take recycled RIs with no up front payment. In the latter scenario, the customer takes over the remaining unblended costs of the RI. Any RI handoffs, fees & terms are governed by the North MSA.
Analyzing Break-Even Projections
North will automatically analyze and show you TCO/breakeven statistics on each RI instance (total accrued costs vs On-Demand equivalent), both aggregated at the total account level, or broken down by individual service/instance type. To view, go to the checkout cart, Click DETAILS.
