Introduction 

From expanding our footprint across Southeast Asia to refining our marketing strategies, Alphaus remains unwavering in our commitment to delivering real business value. We won’t stop until we provide impactful, results-driven solutions that help your business thrive—and make money in the cloud.

With that, we're excited to share another round-up of features released this June—designed to enhance cost transparency and streamline your overall experience with Octo. Our goal is to empower your teams with deeper insights and greater control over your cloud spending.

Let’s dive in.

June’s Top Octo Features

Support for Grouping by Charge Type

To start things off, say hello to smarter cost analysis—Charge Type is now available as a supported dimension for cost grouping!

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You can now group your cloud costs by Charge Type, adding to our existing set of grouping options, which include: Service, Account, Region, Vendor, Billing Account, Category, Usage Type, Tagged, and Tags.

This new grouping dimension is especially valuable for breaking down costs based on their financial nature—for example, separating usage charges from credits, taxes, or support fees. It aligns with best practices for cost management by enabling a more granular, transparent view of your cloud spending.

From a user standpoint, it offers greater control and clarity in analyzing and understanding your cloud expenses. It’s another step forward in empowering your teams with smarter, more transparent cost management.

Unit Metrics - CloudWatch

AWS CloudWatch metrics are now supported as a source for Unit Metrics.

This enhancement enables you to fetch live AWS metric data directly from your linked accounts and use it as the denominator in calculating per-unit costs—allowing for a more dynamic, real-time approach to unit economics.

With this integration, you can now:

• Select an AWS account and region relevant to your cost group, or browse across all linked accounts.
  
  
• Choose from available namespaces and metric names, such as AWS/EC2 → CPUUtilization, AWS/S3 → NumberOfObjects, and more.
  
  
• (Optionally) apply metric dimensions like InstanceId, QueueName, or LoadBalancerName to scope your metrics to specific resources or tags.

Whether you're calculating cost per request, cost per CPU hour, or cost per queue depth, this integration empowers you to pair real-time usage metrics with your cost group spend—unlocking accurate, actionable Unit Costs.

This marks a significant step forward in supporting precision FinOps practices within Octo. You can now explore unit metrics with real usage data and elevate your cloud cost analysis with smarter, metrics-driven insights.

AI Cost Filter

We’ve also rolled out another exciting enhancement to the AI Cost feature: Filters & Groupings.

This new capability empowers users to interactively filter and group cost and usage data within the visualization interface—enabling more precise, tailored, and insightful analysis of AI-related spending.

With Filters, users can narrow down their data view based on specific attributes such as service types, linked accounts, usage types, or resource IDs. On the other hand, Groupings provide a way to categorize and break down data using the same dimensions—offering a more organized and meaningful representation of cost and usage patterns.

This update significantly enhances the flexibility and depth of cost analysis, giving users the ability to explore their AI expenses with greater clarity and control. Ultimately, it supports smarter, data-driven decision-making around AI resource consumption and budgeting.

Enhanced Filters Visibility in Cost Group Detail

Building on the recent improvements to the AI Cost Filter, we’ve also upgraded the filtering experience on the Cost Group Details page to give users better visibility and control over their selected filters—without the need to constantly reopen the filter pop-up.

Previously, when users selected multiple items under a single filter category, the interface would only display a generic summary (e.g., “3 selected”). This made it difficult to recall the exact selections. Additionally, because grouping is limited to a single dimension at a time, users had minimal visibility into which filters were applied across multiple categories—making comparisons and filter refinement cumbersome.

To address this, we’ve introduced several key enhancements:

But now, we’ve added:

• Expanded Filter Options: In addition to the existing filters (Service, Account, Vendor), users can now filter by:
  
  • Region
  • Usage Type
  • Billing Account
  • Category
  • Charge Type
    
• Vendor-Aware Filtering: Filter values now dynamically adjust based on the selected vendor. This ensures that users only see relevant filtering options applicable to that vendor’s data.
• Improved Filter Display: All selected filter items are now clearly displayed on the page itself, making it much easier to review and fine-tune filters without toggling back to the filter modal.
• Alignment with Grouping Options: The available filters are now aligned with the dimensions used for grouping (excluding tags, which are still in development). This streamlines the user experience and makes it easier to compare cost data across consistent attributes.

These updates significantly improve the usability and analytical power of the Cost Group Details page, delivering:

• Clearer visibility of all active filters
• Simpler comparison across cost dimensions
• Less friction navigating between filters and visualizations

Together, these changes empower users to refine their cloud cost insights with greater precision—especially in complex, multi-dimensional environments.

Container Cost Filters and Grouping

Following the enhancement on AI Cost Feature and Cost Group Details, we’ve also introduced the same powerful Filters & Groupings capability to the Container Cost Feature.

Previously, container cost analysis was limited to a basic “Group by” dropdown, with dimension options tailored separately for ECS and EKS environments. With this new update, the enhanced Filters & Groupings functionality allows you to go much further—enabling advanced filtering by the same dimensions and the ability to combine filters across them for deeper, more contextual analysis of your container workloads.

This powerful new feature is now available in the Detailed View under the Insights tab of any Container Cost Group. Whether you're applying a single filter or layering multiple filters across different dimensions, you’ll now have greater flexibility and precision in how you explore, compare, and interpret your container cost data.

Ultimately, this enhancement empowers you to drill down more effectively, uncover key trends, and gain sharper insights into the cost behavior of your containerized applications—bringing you closer to smarter, data-driven FinOps practices.

Navigation: Cost Group Routing

Last but definitely not least on our roundup is the enhanced navigation experience for Cost Groups in which we updated the routing logic and reorganized key components within the interface. These changes aim to provide a more intuitive flow when managing and exploring cost group details.

Here’s what changed:

To see visual examples of these new enhancements, simply navigate to Navigation: Cost Group Routing.

Bonus: Set the Default Cost Group Creation to be the New UI

Cost group creation has always been fundamental to Octo—it's the foundation upon which the platform is built.

To enhance usability, we’ve now made the New UI the default experience, officially replacing the legacy JSON-based method.

This update is aimed at making the process of creating cost groups significantly more efficient, intuitive, and accessible for all users—whether you're just getting started or managing complex setups.

Ready to Transform Your Cloud Cost Management?

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From AI cost filtering to real-time CloudWatch metrics integration, June's updates deliver the precision and control your FinOps team needs to make smarter, data-driven decisions.

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