Cloud Cost Visibility And Savings

“Going above and beyond in cloud cost management”

I’ve used several products in the cloud cost management space, and CloudZero has gone above and beyond in taking feedback for the product itself. Our FinOps Account Manager keeps on top of requests and customizations we need for our datasets, as well as highlighting room for improvement and insights on changes in spend. The standout features for my use case are in the Explorer and custom Dimensions, being able to group data together in a very flexible way to reflect what’s important for different stakeholders.

“Cloud cost transparency at the next level”

Easy interface. Ability to integrate over 50+ telemetries and allocation for our org. Great self-service dashboard capabilities. Unlocking cost transparency at the resource level makes it accessible from C-level to engineer and is the key piece to enable FinOps throughout the organization. Great customer support team, post sales and constant product evolution is amazing! Implementation was very easy even given our highly complex telemetries for shared cost.

“Our journey streamlining FinOps with CloudZero”

We’ve been using CloudZero for over a year now as the backbone of our FinOps operations. We have a large and complex set of resources across AWS, Azure, and GCP. CloudZero has been instrumental in helping us drive cultural and operational shifts towards cloud cost accountability, visibility and optimisation. We evaluated two other platforms when choosing CloudZero and the two biggest reasons that swung it in their favour were the people at CloudZero, who are fantastic, and the speed at which we could onboard engineers and managers into the tool.

“Provides cost allocation and spending insights”

CloudZero makes it easy for us to allocate costs and understand the spending for our cloud environment (primarily AWS). Additionally, it allows us to generate insights and clearly flag changes that are unexpected or resulting from architectural decisions. We are leveraging CloudZero mostly on the engineering level with our delivery teams, but we also use it as a financial support team to plan our costs and allow financial reconciliation.

“Strategic cost optimization that drives executive visibility”

We’ve seen measurable impact since onboarding CloudZero. Our cloud run rate has decreased, and that downward trend continues. As the Chief Technology Operations Officer, I now have real-time visibility into where dollars are going and how they are translating into business value. CloudZero has fundamentally changed how we manage and communicate cloud economics across the functional areas.

“Brings intelligence to a maturing area of financial management”

Focus on unit economics and understanding that “every engineering decision is a buying decision.” It is not enough at this point to simply understand volume and cost related to your cloud spend. Rather, CloudZero focuses on the unit economics associated to that spend, using your own real-world business data. What is your cost per “widget”? How do you optimize that cost per widget? This is where CloudZero excels beyond the competitors.

“The Value of FinOps Account Managers in CloudZero”

My overall experience with the product has been great! When selecting the tool, we ran a comparison with two other vendors and CloudZero stood out on top! I like the accuracy in allocating costs for our AWS bill. CloudZero was the most accurate that I saw with their calculations. Also, a big differentiator for our company is our FinOps Account Manager, they provide tremendous value by teaching you the system and getting you going. It’s like having a dedicated FinOps employee on your staff.