Changelog

Manage multi-account teams with improved organization tools.

🥳 Improvements#

• Organization-Level Experience We’ve introduced organization-level support — onboarding now covers the entire organization instead of individual accounts.
• Billing is now grouped by organization, and you can view aggregated insights across all sub-accounts in one place.
• Moved the sidebar into the top navigation bar, making it accessible as a menu for a cleaner layout and easier navigation.
• Monthly summary emails now include the count and amount of pending savings, offering clearer financial insights.
• 🏗️ UI improvements Combined EC2 and RDS Observability into a single tab with a unified service selector and navigation buttons for easier switching between views.
• Updated breadcrumb navigation to clearly show when users are viewing an organization overview.
• Added a loading animation to the “Refresh Data” button for better visual feedback.

Spot outdated and unused AWS resources faster with Flags updates.

🥳 Improvements Added regional flags for non-default AWS regions, making it easier to identify the region of your accounts at a glance.

Added Cloudflare Turnstile — a privacy-friendly CAPTCHA alternative — to both sign-in and sign-up pages for enhanced security and bot protection.

🔫 Bug fixes & improvements

Fixed issue with certain form fields not rendering correctly in HTML.

Ensured emails now accurately display total savings and updated button links for recommendations.

Skipped sending notifications when no new recommendations are available or data is duplicated.

Improved system performance when handling active accounts and auto-scaling recommendations.

Stay on top of recommendations and account activity with clearer alerts.

🥳 New#

• Introduced a Notifications Inbox where users can view, mark as read/unread, and manage all system notifications in one place.
• Notifications now update instantly in real-time — you don’t have to refresh the page to see new alerts.
• Added “Mark all as read” feature for easier management.
• Each notification now includes icons and clearer timestamps for better readability.
• 🔫 Bug Fixes & Small Improvements Reduced transition duration for a faster UI response.
• Hidden extra scrollbars in notification lists for a cleaner experience.

Ship with a more reliable MilkStraw after bug fixes and polish.

🥳 Improvements Release new recommender experience and UI 🏗️ UI improvements Minor updates for colors and border radius🔫 Bug fixes & improvements Include optional company name for accounts to include them in bill receipts

Run MilkStraw with improved reliability and bug fixes.

🏗️ UI improvements Prioritize user authentication with Google and GitHub over Email for login and sign up pages The sidebar badges now counts only currently selected account recommendations🔫 Bug fixes & improvements Users signups from team invitations will not automatically create another empty team

Get incremental platform fixes and UI polish in MilkStraw.

🏗️ UI improvements Improve EC2 & RDS columns and colors Dashboard charts scale is now more specific and accurate🔫 Bug fixes & improvements Fix payment method not showing immediately after being added

Use MilkStraw with small quality-of-life and bug fixes.

🏗️ UI improvements Enrichment for EC2 & RDS dashboards 🥳 Improvements Improve recommender performance to handle bigger and more accounts Display previous month charts in dashboard at the beginning of the month when current month data is still not available Improve underutilization prediction to detect sell recommendations earlier

See cloud spend and usage signals more clearly with Observe.

🥳 Improvements#

Make first-touch dashboard responsive for mobile Show the full text in popup when hovering truncated text in tables

🔫 Bug fixes & improvements#

Enhance reservation tracking (resulting in improved sell recommendations) Fix historical charts missing last month data Auto-join users to team after signup if invitation link already clicked

Modernize AWS resources with clearer upgrade guidance.

Introducing Teams Now users can group accounts into teams and share access with other users, and team will have unified billing and payment method

🥳 New#

• Flag instances & recommendations as outdated by adding “Upgrade” badges and not allowing users from approving recommendations.
• Improve the marketplace efficiency to make applying reservations faster Implement automatic increasing for service quotas when needed

🔫 Bug fixes & improvements#

Fix retired reservations counted into savings amount Fix pricing issues with certain operating systems

Let Autopilot buy and sell reserved instances for selected accounts.

🥳 New#

Autopilot Mode Enables AI decision-making for selected accounts Users can toggle autopilot settings per account

🏗️ UI Improvements#

New#

• badge indicators for recommendation & approval counts
• Added instance count per reservation in bills

Improved Approval Page

• Added expected total savings metrics
• Added month-to-date savings calculations
• Combined duplicate reservations for better readability Enhanced recommendation engine performance and accuracy Optimized account deletion process for faster performance 🔫 Bug fixes & improvements Enhanced recommendation engine performance and accuracy Optimized account deletion process for faster performance

Connect AWS faster with a clearer onboarding flow.

🥳 improvements#

Revamp onboarding experience: Redesign it with better UI. Add video examples per step Include options for read-only permission Improve system robustness Better handle missing data due to errors or missing permissions Enhance data aggregation logic & implementation

Receive clearer product and billing emails from MilkStraw.

We’ve updated all of our emails because we forgot about them 😂 now our emails provide more context and are more aligned with our brand.

🥳 UI improvements#

Redesigned all system email templates Updated transactional emails Refreshed billing emails New welcome email sent automatically after signup Works with regular and OAuth signups

Work faster with small UX and reliability improvements.

We’ve added some small improvements that have a big impact on your experience.

🥳 UI improvements#

Refreshed the company logo Added smooth page transitions for a more polished feel Updated first-touch dashboard design Added helpful counters to Recommendation & Approval tabs Redesigned error pages for better user experience

🔫 Bug fixes & improvements#

Fix inverted unreserved_capacity Handle incomplete services costs Better support for EC2 instances that uses GPU

Use MilkStraw AI v1.5 with core product and UI upgrades.

🥳 New#

• Month to Date chart to compare daily current costs to last month.1 year historical cost and trends.
• Optimization summary and recommendations.

🏗️ Improvements#

Better access permissions check on user sign up Get more data about users current savings plans for better base workload analysis Handle missing permissions when trying to fetch customers data

🔫 Bug fixes#

Handle missing data in users pages Fix double email send for charging notifications

Get better visibility and cost insights for RDS databases.

We’re introducing RDS, a new addition to our optimization categories. this will allow you to get RDS commitment prices without the associated risk.

🥳 New#

Add RDS reservation recommendations Support RDS multi-az recommendations Remove forced onboarding

🏗️ Improvements#

Support desktop & mobile apps with PWAAdd option to see yearly spendings and savings in dashboard Enhance auto scaling group recommendations More aggressive EC2 recommendations, now we cover micros and nanos

🔫 Bug fixes#

Fix duplicate chart bug in dashboard Fix EC2 approvals listing bug for approved and still processing recommendations Show RDS service details only if there are RDS recommendations Fix RDS uncovered capacity calculations for small instances