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    Releases

    What's new in Spotto.

    New releases and improvements to the platform, newest first. Each one helps you see a client's Azure estate, spot the work in it, sell that work, or serve the client once it's done.

    October 2026

    Spot it

    Ask Spotto now answers with charts and tables you can act on

    Ask Spotto now answers with interactive charts you can drill into, side-by-side scenario comparisons and follow-up actions you can take straight from the answer.

    Ask Spotto in the Spotto portal, ready for a question about the client's Azure estate
    Trust & security

    Spotto's SOC 2 Type II report is in

    Decrypt Compliance, an independent auditor, has tested Spotto's controls and issued our SOC 2 Type II report. Security and procurement teams can ask us for a copy.

    SOC 2 Type II badge, audited by Decrypt Compliance
    Spot it

    Work through commitment renewals one decision at a time

    Commitments now walks you through renewals and reservation or savings plan opportunities one decision at a time, with the affected resources beside each one.

    Commitment renewals in Spotto with the affected resources shown beside each decision

    Improvements

    • At a Glance items link straight to the matching recommendation.
    • More reliable Click & Connect onboarding and improved Regulatory Compliance screens.
    • Clearer recommendation wording and standardised Word exports.
    • Optional CSP discount per subscription, so pricing shows what your client pays.
    • Faster alerting, with per-point detail on cost anomalies.
    • 12 new Azure Arc recommendations.
    • Cost recommendations for Microsoft Sentinel.

    September 2026

    Serve it

    Show a client what changed, what you delivered and what's next

    The Service Delivery Report now compares this month with last, shows the work your team delivered and sets out the path ahead. It's built for the monthly or quarterly client review.

    A Service Delivery Report for a demo client open in Spotto, ready to preview and export
    Spot it

    Start each client conversation with the short list that matters

    At a Glance gathers the first places to look in a client's estate, from oversized resources and scheduling to resilience, Azure Hybrid Benefit and commitments. Each item links to the matching recommendation.

    At a Glance in Spotto showing where Azure Hybrid Benefit would pay off, with a ranked Where to start list
    See it

    See your clients together in one portfolio view

    Select a parent company and its child companies to see them together in one portfolio view on supported pages.

    Spot it

    The new Ask Spotto keeps the thread of your conversation

    The new Ask Spotto remembers context across a conversation and answers with graphs and KPIs. The Spotto MCP server now brings customer context into your team's own AI tools.

    Improvements

    • Storage tiering with lifecycle-rule creation.
    • Cost export grouped by tag, and bulk subscription grouping.
    • Simpler user invites.
    • Click & Connect onboarding, with Repair Setup in preview.
    • Visual Security Posture and Cloud Cost Change reports.
    • Faster first sync for new cloud accounts.
    • Refinements to Service Delivery Report and Current State Analysis, and faster Ask Spotto answers.

    August 2026

    Sell it

    Take a Current State Analysis into your next pre-sales meeting

    Current State Analysis now leads the Generate menu. It gives you a branded first look at a client's or prospect's Azure estate, with a ranked set of actions.

    Current State Analysis in Spotto: the state of the environment and an impact and effort matrix of findings
    See the free Current State Analysis
    Sell it

    Send any work item to the tool your service desk runs on

    Share any work item to email, Jira, Halo PSA, ConnectWise or Autotask. The Kanban board now ranks the highest-impact priorities for you.

    Tickets list in Spotto showing work items raised in Jira, Halo and ConnectWise
    Spot it

    Review ISO 27001 and SOC 2 controls with the evidence beside them

    Regulatory Compliance brings Azure Policy standards such as ISO 27001 and SOC 2 into Spotto, with the technical compliance evidence beside each control. Ask Spotto helps draft exemption requests for your team to review.

    Regulatory Compliance in Spotto: CIS, Microsoft cloud security benchmark and SOC 2 Type II controls by subscription

    Improvements

    • Preview labels removed from established pages.
    • Richer cost detail for scheduling, and reconciled savings figures.
    • Single-currency totals throughout.
    • Problem-led shortcuts on Get Started.
    • DR Handbook export and a restructured Retirement Tracker.
    • Billing reconciliation, streamed Ask Spotto answers and Action Groups for alerts.

    July 2026

    Sell it

    Turn a finding into the business case your client reads

    Business Value decision briefs turn a recommendation into the business case a client decision-maker reads. A Monthly Insights report builder and branded Word exports arrive alongside.

    A Business Value decision brief in Spotto showing the current position and what changes after the work
    Sell it

    Push recommendations into Autotask as tickets

    Autotask PSA joins Spotto's integrations. Push a recommendation into Autotask as a ticket, and keep client context in Company Notes.

    Improvements

    • Azure Hybrid Benefit analysis in preview: Spotto shows eligibility, and you enable it in Azure.
    • Burstable VM alternatives.
    • A new Get Started page.
    • Daily cost per resource.
    • Cloud Cost Change report and FinOps Word report.

    June 2026

    See it

    See why a client's Azure bill changed between periods

    Cost Tree Drivers shows what moved a client's spend between two periods, as a Sankey view you can follow down to the resources behind it.

    Cost Tree in Spotto tracing a subscription's spend through to the resource groups behind it

    Improvements

    • Detailed role-based access control.
    • Per-customer feature controls, including switching AI features off for a client.
    • Tag exclusions.
    • A refreshed Spotto Autopilot for Azure browser extension for Chrome and Edge, showing Spotto findings inside the Azure portal.

    May 2026

    Serve it

    Act on a recommendation from where you find it

    Remediation Actions let you apply supported fixes from the recommendation itself, with your team choosing which resources to change.

    Sell it

    Turn recommendations into a scoped Statement of Work

    Statement of Work and Service Delivery Report arrived in Reporting. A Statement of Work turns recommendations into a scoped proposal for the client.

    A Statement of Work in Spotto with background, objectives, scope and priced deliverables

    Improvements

    • Ctrl+K global search.
    • Microsoft documentation links on recommendations.
    • Remediation links for IP perimeter findings.
    • Sync diagnostics.
    • Automatic Azure connect, in preview.
    • Billing export ingestion.

    April 2026

    Serve it

    Plan the work on a Kanban board and export a lane to a SOW

    The Kanban board lays out prioritised recommendations in lanes from Prioritised through to Completed. Export any lane to a Statement of Work.

    Kanban board in Spotto with security and reliability work moving from Prioritised to Completed

    Improvements

    • Reserved instances on Commitments.
    • Cost Tree grouping by tag.

    See it on your own client estates

    Pick three customers and take a free look at what Spotto surfaces across them.

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