Octo Improvements You’ll Want to Know About
We’ve launched a round of updates in Octo to make AWS registration smoother and unit cost insights more powerful. These improvements focus on streamlining your setup experience, supporting more flexible configurations, and enhancing the visibility of cost drivers. Whether you're connecting existing CURs or analyzing unit economics, these changes are built to save you time and sharpen your cost management strategy.
Here’s what’s new in this release.
🆕AWS Registration - UI Improvements
We’ve released updates to the AWS Registration flow to improve usability and support more configuration options.
What’s New:
Support for Existing CUR Setup
You can now choose to either create a New CUR Setup or use an Existing Cost and Usage Report (CUR) already configured in your AWS account.
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Improved Region Selection for S3 Bucket Configuration
Region selection is now handled through a dropdown menu improving consistency and providing a cleaner, more focused layout within the overall registration flow.
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Enhanced Instructions and Overall Flow
Updated setup instructions and a clearer layout now guide users more smoothly through the registration process.
🆕Unit Metrics: Display number of units per day alongside unit cost
This release introduces an enhancement to our Cost group feature, providing deeper and more contextual insights into your unit cost analysis. We've updated the chart tooltip to display not only the Cost per unit but also the total No. of units that contribute to your cloud costs.
What's New?
We've enriched the data tooltip that appears when you hover over your cost charts within a cost group. The key improvements are:
New "Unit Metrics" Section: To improve clarity, we have grouped unit-cost-related data under a new dedicated "Unit metrics" header in the tooltip.
"No. of units" Display: You can now see the total number of units for the selected time period. This metric provides the volume driver behind your costs, whether it's daily active users, API calls, transactions, or any other custom unit you have defined.
This gives you a more complete picture at a glance. For any given data point, you can now instantly correlate the total cost with its underlying drivers:
No. of units: The volume of activity.
Cost per unit: The efficiency or rate of that activity.
For example, in the tooltip:
Why It Matters
Previously, displaying only the Cost per unit provided a measure of cost-efficiency but lacked the context of scale. By adding the No. of units, you can now:
Improve Cost Analysis: More accurately diagnose cost fluctuations and make better-informed decisions for optimization.
Enhance Reporting: Clearly communicate the relationship between business metrics and cloud spend to stakeholders.
We believe this small but powerful addition will significantly improve your ability to analyze and manage your cloud costs effectively.
🛠️Minor Bug Fixes and Other Enhancements
We have also made some minor bug fixes and improvements to other existing features.
Thank you for your continued support! Your feedback helps us improve. Stay tuned for more exciting updates coming your way soon!