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Documentation Index

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Overview

The Provider News page surfaces billing-relevant announcements from the official RSS feeds of your connected cloud providers. Rather than manually monitoring provider blogs and changelogs, Cost Optix fetches, filters, and ranks updates that could affect your cloud costs — pricing changes, deprecations, new services, and cost-management features.

How News Is Collected

Cost Optix pulls from official provider RSS feeds on a scheduled basis. Sources include:
ProviderSources
AWSAWS What’s New, AWS Cost Management Blog, AWS News Blog
AzureAzure Updates, Azure Blog
GCPGoogle Cloud Release Notes, Google Cloud Blog
HerokuHeroku Changelog
Items are filtered to include only cost-relevant content — pricing announcements, billing changes, service deprecations, and cost management updates. General engineering or product news unrelated to cost is excluded. Only items from the last 90 days are shown. Older items are removed automatically.

Severity Levels

Each news item is assigned a severity level based on its content:
SeverityMeaning
CriticalPricing changes, billing model changes, deprecations with a direct cost impact
HighService changes likely to affect cost indirectly
MediumGeneral announcements worth monitoring
LowMinor updates with minimal cost relevance
The page header shows a count of critical items so high-priority news is visible at a glance.

Impact Indicator

Items marked ⚡ May impact your infrastructure are matched against the services and providers you actually have connected. If a news item mentions a service you are actively using, it surfaces with an impact flag.

Filtering

Use the filter sidebar to narrow displayed items by:
  • Provider — AWS, Azure, GCP, Heroku, or any combination
  • Severity — Critical, High, Medium, Low
  • Type — Announcements, Cost updates, General, Changelog
  • Search — free text search across title and description
Filters combine with AND logic. Use Clear Filters to reset all active filters at once.

Pagination

News items are paginated at 10 per page. Use the Previous / Next buttons at the bottom of the list to navigate, or use filters to narrow to the items most relevant to you.

Dismissing Items

Click the × button on any news item to dismiss it. Dismissed items are hidden from your view but not deleted — they move out of the active list so they no longer count against your critical or total counts. Dismissed items cannot be un-dismissed from the UI. News items that appear in the compact Provider Updates widget on the main Cost Dashboard can also be dismissed from there — dismissals sync to the full news page.

Provider Updates Widget

A compact version of the news feed appears inline on the Cost Dashboard, showing up to 2 of the most recent cost-relevant items. Items tagged as impacting your infrastructure are prioritised. Click View all → to open the full Provider News page.

Cost Dashboard

The Provider Updates widget appears inline on the main dashboard.

Anomaly Detection

Statistical detection of cost spikes, complementing provider-reported changes.

Webhooks

Receive anomaly and budget alerts alongside provider updates in Slack or Teams.