CloudZero VS Economize

CloudZero Pricing

Economize Pricing

CloudZero

• Data Normalization: Ingests spend from any provider (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) into a common data model for a unified view via AnyCost™.
• Cost Allocation (CostFormation®): Allocates 100% of spend, including shared costs, without perfect tagging.
• Unit Cost Calculation: Develops precise unit cost metrics like cost per customer, product, feature, or team.
• Kubernetes Visibility: Provides comprehensive, hour-level granularity for Kubernetes costs, including shared costs.
• AI-Powered Anomaly Detection: Automatically detects abnormal spend events and alerts relevant engineers.
• Budgeting And Forecasting: Creates precise budgets and forecasts using hourly granularity and unit cost metrics.
• FinOps Enablement: Offers dedicated FinOps Account Managers (FAMs) for training, savings identification, and consultation.
• Optimization Insights: Delivers platform- and human-identified savings opportunities.
• Explorer: Allows viewing spend data at any level, through any lens, down to the hour.
• Analytics: Enables users to visualize, manipulate, and share cost data.

Economize

• Agentless Integration: Secure and seamless connection to AWS, Azure, and GCP cloud accounts.
• AI-Powered Recommendations: Identifies hidden costs and suggests actionable optimizations.
• Real-time Monitoring: Continuously tracks cloud utilization and cost spikes.
• Anomaly Detection: Instantly highlights unusual spending patterns with root-cause analysis.
• Comprehensive Reporting: Offers detailed cost breakdowns, visualizations, and summaries.
• Multi-Cloud Asset Inventory: Unified view and management of resources across clouds.
• Automated Notifications: Delivers alerts and summaries via Slack, Teams, and email.
• Role-Based Access Control: Secure, SOC II compliant environment with audit logs.
• Integration with Collaboration Tools: Connects cloud cost data to Slack, Teams, and Discord.
• FinOps Ready: Supports governance, budgeting, forecasting, and compliance initiatives.

CloudZero Use Cases

• Optimizing Cloud Costs: Identify and eliminate wasteful spending across cloud infrastructure.
• Allocating Shared Cloud Costs: Accurately distribute shared expenses like Kubernetes or databases across teams or products.
• Improving Unit Economics: Understand and reduce cost per customer, feature, or transaction.
• Detecting Spend Anomalies: Receive AI-driven alerts for unexpected spikes in cloud costs.
• Enabling FinOps Culture: Provide engineers, finance, and FinOps teams with shared data for collaboration.
• Budgeting and Forecasting Cloud Spend: Create accurate budgets based on historical data and unit cost metrics.
• Enhancing Kubernetes Cost Visibility: Gain detailed insights into Kubernetes cluster costs.
• Measuring Engineering Impact on Cost: Correlate engineering activities with changes in cloud spend.
• Justifying Cloud Investments: Track the ROI of cloud projects and initiatives.

Economize Use Cases

• Monitor and optimize AWS, Azure, and GCP cloud expenses in real-time.
• Detect anomalous cloud spending to prevent bill shocks.
• Receive actionable recommendations for reducing cloud infrastructure costs.
• Centralize and visualize multi-cloud resource usage for informed decision-making.
• Receive timely cloud spend and anomaly alerts via Slack or Teams.
• Empower engineering, finance, and FinOps teams for better governance and forecasting.
• Audit and analyze complex cloud billing data without manual effort.
• Implement cost-aware DevOps practices across cloud environments.

CloudZero FAQs

• Do I need perfect tagging to use CloudZero effectively?

  No, CloudZero uses a code-driven approach (CostFormation®) to organize cloud spend, allowing accurate allocation even without perfect tagging by defining cost organization through code artifacts rather than relying solely on tags.
• How does CloudZero help optimize cloud costs?

  CloudZero provides both automated AI-driven anomaly detection and human-identified insights to pinpoint cost-inefficient infrastructure and suggest savings opportunities.
• Can CloudZero calculate specific business metrics like cost per customer?

  Yes, the platform combines billing and telemetry data to calculate various unit cost metrics, including cost per customer, per feature, per team, or per transaction.
• How quickly can I get started and see value?

  Connecting to the CloudZero platform takes minutes. Initial value can be seen quickly, and additional metrics like unit cost typically take a few hours to uncover after setup.
• Does CloudZero integrate with various cloud providers and tools?

  Yes, CloudZero AnyCost™ ingests and unifies data from any IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS provider, including AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Snowflake, Datadog, MongoDB, and others, presenting it in a single view.

Economize FAQs

• Which cloud platforms are supported by Economize?

  Economize supports seamless integration with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
• How does Economize help reduce cloud spending?

  Economize leverages AI to continuously monitor usage, detect anomalies, and provide recommendations to help users eliminate unnecessary expenses and optimize resource allocation.
• What integrations are available for alerts and notifications?

  Economize integrates with collaboration tools such as Slack, Teams, and Discord to deliver alerts, summaries, and cost reports directly within messaging channels.
• Is there a free trial available?

  Yes, Economize offers a 14-day free trial with access to all major features and integrations.
• What security features are available?

  The platform provides SOC II compliance, agentless integration, SAML SSO, role-based access control, and comprehensive audit logs for secure usage.

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