What's new, fixed
& running.

Two moments everyone passes through — creating an account, and reaching the end of a plan — now behave the way you’d expect.

Signing up

• Your email, entered once. Creating an account goes straight to sign-up instead of asking for your address and then asking again.
• Details after you’re in. Your name and company are collected once you’re signed in, so everyone gets the same start no matter how they arrived.

When a plan ends

• A trial that ends says so plainly. Clear wording, your plan options in front of you, and a direct line to our team if you need more time to evaluate.
• Account settings stay open. If a subscription lapses, you keep access to your own account settings.
• You can see which account you’re in. The expiry screen names the signed-in account and offers a way to sign out.

Connecting a cloud is the first thing you do in CloudOptify, so we rebuilt it end to end — from the first screen you land on to the moment your dashboards fill with data.

Connecting is now a guided flow

• Two clear steps instead of one. Enter your credentials and choose Next — we verify the connection against your cloud before going anywhere. If verification fails you stay put with the actual reason, so you can never end up with a saved-but-broken connection.
• Pick what to analyse, in the same flow. Step two lists the subscriptions or linked accounts we discovered, with search and select-all. At least one must be chosen before you can save — no more “connected successfully” followed by an empty dashboard because nothing was ever selected.
• A first-run experience worth the name. With nothing connected yet, the connections page now opens on a proper welcome: what happens, how long it takes, and one clear action per cloud — rather than a bare form with the important button below the fold.

Watch your first sync happen

• After you save, CloudOptify shows a live setup screen while your first scan runs: which stage it’s on and how many accounts have synced so far. When it finishes you get an explicit “First scan complete” confirmation and go straight to your populated dashboard.
• If a scan can’t complete — almost always a missing permission on the cloud side — we now say so plainly and name what to grant (Azure: Cost Management Reader and Reader; AWS: ce:GetCostAndUsage), with a one-click Retry once you’ve fixed it. Previously a failed first scan looked the same as an empty one.
• Connecting AWS? We call out up front that Cost Explorer publishes on roughly a 24-hour delay, so early AWS figures trailing Azure is expected rather than alarming.

Improving scanning guards for new connections

• Newly added clouds are scanned right away. If your organisation already had data, a tenant or AWS account added later wasn’t picked up for an immediate scan — it waited for the next scheduled run, and on plans without automatic refresh it could wait indefinitely. New accounts now sync as soon as you add them, while an established workspace stays usable in the background instead of being blocked behind a setup screen.
• Re-connecting a cloud we’ve already scanned is now explained. Removing and re-adding a connection doesn’t discard your history — scan records belong to your organisation, not to a connection. You’ll now see confirmation that the connection succeeded, what data we already hold, and exactly when your next scan is due, instead of a silent no-op.

This release focuses on everyday polish and enterprise-grade access management.

• A more user-friendly portal. We’ve streamlined the interface across the app — cleaner layouts, clearer status and provisioning labels, and record views that stay readable in both light and dark themes. Long lists (broadcasts, Terms acceptances, announcement logs, and the Cloud Spend Guard overview) now load in pages of 50 with instant search and filters, so finding a specific user, organization, or event takes seconds instead of scrolling.
• Faster, snappier experience. Under-the-hood optimizations trim load times and keep large tables responsive as your data grows.

Identity & Access Management

• Microsoft Entra ID group sync — now a first-class provisioning mode. Map your Entra security groups to CloudOptify roles and have access granted automatically at sign-in, with the highest matching role winning. New Entra Group Sync-Only mode locks provisioning to your directory: manual invites are disabled and membership follows your groups.
• Clearer SCIM & Entra provisioning. SCIM and Entra group sync now sit side by side with mutually-exclusive “only” modes, so it’s always obvious how members get access. Each member is tagged with its source — manually invited or SCIM synced — for at-a-glance auditing.

Nothing here changes your access or pricing — every existing feature keeps working exactly as before.

• Fixed a small rounding drift where dashboard totals could differ by a few cents from the cloud provider’s native figure. Every view now converts currency from a single shared exchange-rate source, so totals match to the cent.
• Fixed Savings Potential to normalize each finding to a common currency before summing — mixed-currency estimates are now correct everywhere they appear (home, custom views, reports).
• Improved the Spend Trend chart with a currency-adaptive value axis and cleaner Split view.

• Cost by Region — spend broken down by geographic region across Azure and AWS, with normalized region names and explicit Global / No region buckets. Click a row for its per-service breakdown.
• Tax Analytics — a FinOps dashboard for tax and credits: effective rate, pre-tax vs. net, per-provider split, and a monthly trend.

Both are Enterprise features and honor the global filter, date range, and display currency.