What is CloudZero?

CloudZero delivers comprehensive cloud cost intelligence, enabling organizations to gain visibility and achieve savings on their infrastructure expenditure. The platform automates the collection, allocation, and analysis of spend data from various sources, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS providers like AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Snowflake, and Datadog. It normalizes this data into a common model, presenting it in a unified view for clear understanding.

Leveraging advanced techniques, CloudZero allocates 100% of cloud spend, including shared costs, often without relying solely on perfect tagging. This allows businesses to accurately determine unit costs such as cost per customer, product, or feature. The platform features AI-powered anomaly detection to alert engineers to abnormal spend patterns, facilitating quick investigation and resolution. It also supports precise budgeting and forecasting based on granular data and unit cost metrics, empowering finance, engineering, and FinOps teams to collaborate effectively and make data-driven decisions for sustainable scaling and profitability.

Features

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.

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.

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.