Month-by-month product updates to the skie.io platform. https://skie.io/release-notes/ 2026-07-01T00:00:00Z skie.iohttps://skie.io/ https://skie.io/release-notes/#2026-07 2026-07-01T00:00:00Z <ul><li><strong>Maintenance Windows</strong> (Automation): Define maintenance windows in your own time zone and the platform schedules optimization changes to execute only inside them. Automated savings, on your schedule.</li><li><strong>Rebuilt EC2 &amp; RDS Optimization Pages</strong> (Optimization): Our two flagship optimization experiences were redesigned from the ground up with new dashboards, clearer recommendations, and faster navigation.</li><li><strong>CSV Export Everywhere</strong> (Reporting): A new export experience across EC2, RDS, EKS, and other inventory and cost pages, so any view can leave the platform as a spreadsheet.</li><li><strong>Multi-Select Filters</strong> (Analysis): Data-source and account filters now support multi-select, making cross-account analysis effortless.</li><li><strong>Networking Inventory</strong> (Coverage): Client VPN and NAT Gateways (including regional NAT gateways) join the platform's inventory, alongside new Aurora pricing data.</li><li><strong>Jira Ticket Templates</strong> (Integrations): Customize the Jira tickets created for change requests with configurable templates that match your ITSM conventions.</li></ul> https://skie.io/release-notes/#2026-06 2026-06-01T00:00:00Z <ul><li><strong>AWS Score Dashboard</strong> (Insights): A new scoring dashboard that rates your AWS posture at a glance, with account filters, savings-plan scoring, and member-account scoping.</li><li><strong>Redesigned Navigation</strong> (Experience): A rebuilt sidebar with search, recent items, and pinnable sections, plus consistent breadcrumbs and page headers across the whole app.</li><li><strong>Smart Filter Bar</strong> (Experience): Filter any table faster with a smart filter bar that auto-selects the right operators as you type.</li><li><strong>Jira-Driven OS Patching</strong> (Automation): OS patch scheduling is now integrated with Jira tickets end to end, with robust failure handling and per-customer toggles.</li><li><strong>Service Desk Refinements</strong> (Guardian): Service-desk reporting now separates customer-reported from monitoring-reported tickets, shows all tickets, and keeps your filters as you navigate.</li><li><strong>HPA Recommendations</strong> (Kubernetes): The platform now recommends Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler settings, alongside new safety guardrails that prevent actions on deleted clusters.</li></ul> https://skie.io/release-notes/#2026-05 2026-05-01T00:00:00Z <ul><li><strong>Jira Change-Request Automation</strong> (Integrations): Change requests now create and update Jira tickets automatically (summaries, comments, request types, and per-issue filters), closing the loop with your ITSM.</li><li><strong>Database Savings Plans Recommendations</strong> (Optimization): Purchase recommendations for Database Savings Plans, so commitment coverage now spans compute and databases alike.</li><li><strong>AWS Portfolio View &amp; Opportunity Board</strong> (Insights): A portfolio-level AWS overview plus a heatmap and opportunity board for spotting your biggest savings opportunities at a glance.</li><li><strong>SQL Server License Compliance</strong> (Guardian): Track SQL Server licenses across your fleet with a dedicated licensing-compliance view.</li><li><strong>Pre-Approved &amp; Scheduled Changes</strong> (Automation): Change requests gained a pre-approval option and Guardian-managed scheduling, with improved monitoring of in-flight changes.</li><li><strong>Azure Cost Analysis &amp; DB Optimizer</strong> (Azure): A new Azure VM Cost Analysis report and a bin-packing option for the Azure database optimizer.</li></ul> https://skie.io/release-notes/#2026-04 2026-04-01T00:00:00Z <ul><li><strong>Optimizations via Change Requests</strong> (Automation): EC2 and EBS optimization actions now execute through an approval-based change-request workflow, with cancellation handling and clear error reporting.</li><li><strong>CrowdStrike Integration</strong> (Security): CrowdStrike hosts and detections flow into the platform, with detection trend charts and drill-down views in the Guardian security dashboard.</li><li><strong>Aurora Serverless Support</strong> (Databases): ACU utilization metrics and charts for serverless Aurora and RDS, now included in RDS Cost Analysis.</li><li><strong>Trends, Exports &amp; Permissions</strong> (Guardian): Trend charts across security, backup, and patching, CSV exports, reporter-type filters, and granular dashboard permissions.</li><li><strong>Per-Organization Optimizer Settings</strong> (Optimization): Tune optimizer behavior (cutoff dates, targets, and more) per organization, so recommendations fit each customer's operating model.</li><li><strong>OS Inventory</strong> (Coverage): Operating-system and image details tracked for EC2 instances and Azure VMs, including last-installed-package dates for patch insight.</li></ul> https://skie.io/release-notes/#2026-03 2026-03-01T00:00:00Z <ul><li><strong>Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery Suite</strong> (Guardian): AWS Backup and restore-job tracking, Elastic Disaster Recovery coverage, and RPO/RTO compliance metrics with history.</li><li><strong>Commvault Integration</strong> (Integrations): Commvault clients and backup/restore jobs integrated into the Guardian dashboard for customers using Commvault.</li><li><strong>EKS Cost Dashboard &amp; Container Right-Sizing</strong> (Kubernetes): A dedicated EKS costs dashboard, cluster capacity charts, and container CPU/memory recommendations with editable charts.</li><li><strong>Commitments Page</strong> (FinOps): A consolidated view of savings plans and reservations with monthly utilization charts.</li><li><strong>Complete Spanish &amp; Portuguese Experience</strong> (Global): Every page, message, and menu translated. The platform is now fully usable in three languages.</li><li><strong>Free Trials on AWS Marketplace</strong> (Commercial): Free-trial plans and marketplace offers, with a smoother onboarding flow when subscribing through AWS Marketplace.</li></ul> https://skie.io/release-notes/#2026-02 2026-02-01T00:00:00Z <ul><li><strong>Guardian Dashboard v2</strong> (Guardian): A brand-new managed-services dashboard: executive summary plus dedicated sections for incident response, security compliance, patch management, backup &amp; DR, service desk, and trends.</li><li><strong>AWS Security Hub Findings</strong> (Security): Security Hub findings ingested and surfaced in the platform, the start of cloud security posture reporting.</li><li><strong>Redshift, Timestream, FSx &amp; Neptune</strong> (Coverage): Four more AWS services join the platform's inventory with dedicated views and APIs.</li><li><strong>OS Patch &amp; Package Inventory</strong> (Guardian): Installed patches and packages imported per instance, powering Guardian patch-management metrics.</li><li><strong>Savings-Plan Action Scheduling</strong> (FinOps): Schedule savings-plan optimization actions and track EC2 reservation coverage and utilization.</li><li><strong>One-Click CloudFormation Setup</strong> (Onboarding): A one-click setup link and extended permissions template, so executing optimizations needs no manual IAM work. GovCloud onboarding improved too.</li></ul> https://skie.io/release-notes/#2026-01 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z <ul><li><strong>Multi-Language Support</strong> (Global): The platform learned Spanish and Portuguese, with per-user language settings and locale-aware dates and numbers.</li><li><strong>Plans, Features &amp; Entitlements</strong> (Commercial): Subscription plans now gate features across the dashboard, giving every customer exactly the product they signed up for.</li><li><strong>Automated Marketplace Billing</strong> (Commercial): AWS Marketplace usage billed automatically with an approval step and improved support-fee calculations.</li><li><strong>EC2 CPU Capacity Dashboard</strong> (Optimization): See CPU capacity utilization across your EC2 fleet and get recommendations for CPU-optimized instance choices.</li><li><strong>AWS Backup Visibility</strong> (Guardian): Backup plans, coverage queries, and data-protection metrics arrive on the Guardian dashboard.</li><li><strong>DynamoDB Inventory</strong> (Coverage): DynamoDB tables tracked with dedicated views, later enriched with pricing and daily cost data.</li></ul> https://skie.io/release-notes/#2025-12 2025-12-01T00:00:00Z <ul><li><strong>EKS Support Lands</strong> (Kubernetes): First-class Amazon EKS support: cluster and nodegroup inventory, per-cluster settings, and high-resolution Kubernetes metrics.</li><li><strong>Plans &amp; Subscriptions Groundwork</strong> (Commercial): The foundation for self-serve packaging: subscription management, plan templates, and AWS Marketplace product associations.</li><li><strong>Deletion Audit Trail</strong> (Trust): A new audit system records inventory deletions (starting with EC2 instances and EBS volumes) for full traceability.</li><li><strong>Skie Assist on More Pages</strong> (AI): The AI assistant now helps on EBS volume recommendations and Azure compute optimization pages.</li><li><strong>Azure VM Right-Sizing Charts</strong> (Azure): CPU utilization charts on Azure right-size recommendations, so you can validate every suggestion against real usage.</li><li><strong>ElastiCache Reserved Instances</strong> (FinOps): Commitment coverage extended with ElastiCache reserved instances and an additional savings-plan type.</li></ul>