Deepest cloud discounts, on your terms.
Coverage manages your cloud commitments across providers, with the automation, flexibility, and savings strategy behind every purchase.
Maximize savings. Stay flexible.
Choose the commitment strategy that fits your business, then let North optimize it as your needs change.
Choose the commitment strategy that fits your business, then let North optimize it as your needs change.
Stay flexible with Flexbot
Get deep cloud discounts with no lock-in, no rigid terms, and coverage that adjusts in real time as your usage shifts.
Automate purchasing with Autobot
Build self-owned coverage month over month, with Autobot making the buying decisions in the background based on your business goals.
Match commitments to your strategy
Run Flexbot, Autobot, or both in tandem, and adjust the mix as your environment evolves.
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Coverage that adjusts in real time, with no lock-in.
Flexbot.
Get the rate without the commitment
Get three-year discounts through North-owned member accounts, without taking on the commitment risk yourself.
Adjust coverage to match real usage
Flexbot shifts coverage to where it's needed, expands as usage grows, and rolls off as it contracts, so nothing sits idle.
Maximize savings on every workload
See 55% average compute savings on AWS and 35% on GCP with Flexbot continuously optimizing for the best available rate.
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Automated, self-owned commitments built around your goals.
Autobot.
Buy in increments, not big bets
Autobot grows self-owned coverage month over month, guided by your usage, your goals, and a forecasting model refined over years.
Set goals, not spreadsheets
Tell Autobot how aggressive to be on savings, how much flexibility you need, and where the environment is headed. It handles the rest.
Simulate before you commit
Model maximum savings, time-to-peak savings, and flexibility windows against a library of architectures before anything is purchased.
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Run Flexbot, Autobot, or both.
Choose your approach.
Flexbot for fully managed flexibility
North manages the commitments, you get the savings, and there's nothing to lock into.
Autobot for self-owned automation
You own the inventory, Autobot makes the purchasing decisions in the background based on your goals.
Both in tandem
Set what percentage of your environment runs on Flexbot and what percentage runs on Autobot, and adjust as your strategy evolves.
Real savings. real customers.
North took 5 minutes to setup and showed me we could save 40%. To this day, it's the fastest & clearest demo of ROI I have ever seen in business.”
North is helping us get the right reservations and savings plans in place as we stabilize our infrastructure. And down the line, we’ll look at extending this strategy even further.”
The flexibility and ease of integration really stood out. If someone told me from the start it would be this easy to try, use, and save, I wouldn’t have believed them. But it is. And the savings are real.”
Commit with confidence.
Start using North's Coverage capabilities today.
FAQs
Find answers to commonly asked questions about Coverage.
What is Coverage?
Coverage is North's cloud commitment management feature that maximizes your savings. It manages your commitments across AWS, GCP, and Azure, using AI-driven optimization to identify and execute the best commitment strategy for your business. You can choose between Flexbot (North-managed commitments with no lock-in), Autobot (customer-owned commitments with automated purchasing), or run both in tandem.
What's the difference between Flexbot and Autobot?
Flexbot is North-managed: you get deep cloud discounts through North's member accounts with zero lock-in risk. North handles all purchasing, adjustments, and optimization on your behalf. Autobot is self-owned automation: you own the commitments, and Autobot makes automated purchasing decisions month-to-month based on your usage and goals.
Can I run Flexbot and Autobot at the same time?
Yes. You can set what percentage of your environment runs on Flexbot and what percentage runs on Autobot, and adjust the mix as your strategy evolves. This hybrid approach lets you capture the benefits of both: North-managed flexibility plus customer-owned automation, tailored to your risk tolerance and business needs.
How much can I save with Coverage?
Average savings depend on your cloud provider and workload mix: 55% on AWS compute, 35% on GCP compute, and up to 65% on Azure compute. Coverage achieves these rates by maintaining a utilization rate above 90% across your commitments—meaning coverage is always optimized to match your actual usage, with no waste. Your exact savings depend on your current spend mix and architecture.
Is there really no lock-in with Flexbot?
Correct. North owns the commitments and manages them on your behalf. If your needs change, usage shifts, or you want to exit, North can adjust or retrieve commitments—typically within 7 days on average, sometimes the same day. You get deep discounts without any long-term obligation.
How secure is Coverage? Do I retain control of my cloud Organization?
Yes. The approach depends on which service you choose:
- With Flexbot: North owns the commitments and manages them through isolated member accounts within your Organization. You retain complete authority at all times—you can remove North's accounts from your Organization instantly with native controls, immediately revoking all access. North never imposes external security policies on your Organization.
- With Autobot: You own the commitments, and North requests additional permissions to automate purchasing decisions on your behalf. You retain full visibility and control—you can revoke permissions anytime to pause automated management and return to manual approval. Either way, your security and compliance boundaries remain fully under your control. North's model ensures maximum security for both approaches without locking you into a North-controlled environment.