Your AWS Kiro Agent Can Now Query CloudZero. Here’s What To Ask It

We see a similar pattern playing out across engineering teams running agentic development tools: code gets shipped fast, something moves in the cost data, and understanding why still requires leaving your environment entirely. It means switching to a dashboard, running a query, asking someone in FinOps. With agentic IDEs increasingly building the code, your understanding of its cost should move just as fast to keep up. 

Today, a new CloudZero and AWS Kiro partnership is helping to close this gap.

Kiro, quickly

AWS Kiro is an agentic IDE that’s been adopted by more than 250,000 developers since its launch last year. It doesn’t just autocomplete, it plans, builds, and executes across your codebase with agents that understand project structure, cloud context, and task sequences. Think Cursor or Claude Code, but built natively into the AWS ecosystem with first-party integrations throughout.

Earlier this year, Kiro launched Powers: a partner ecosystem that bundles MCP servers, steering files, and agent instructions into a single install. Datadog, Figma, Stripe, HashiCorp are in. Powers load dynamically, only when relevant, so your agent stays focused rather than context-overloaded. And now, CloudZero is one of them.

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What the CloudZero Power does

Install the CloudZero Power in Kiro and your agent gets a direct connection to CloudZero AI Hub via MCP. Your agent can now read your cost data, run analyses, and surface attribution in plain language inside your IDE.

Here’s what that looks like in practice. You’re deep in a Kiro session, working on a new inference feature. You want to understand the cost impact before you deploy it. You ask:

“How much did we spend on AWS EC2 compute last month, and which team drove the increase?”

Kiro queries CloudZero. It returns dimensional attribution, broken down by team and service, in your workspace. There’s no tab switching and no ticket to FinOps. And no waiting.

Or: “Did my last deploy change our cost-to-serve per API call?” CloudZero has that answer too.

Figure 1.1: What can CloudZero power do for you within Kiro.

Why the pairing matters

Kiro accelerates how fast engineers build. CloudZero tracks the economic footprint of what they build by team, product, feature, customer. Together, they close a loop that we find most teams still managing manually, the connection between development velocity and financial accountability.

This partnership with Kiro is about making cloud and AI cost intelligence a native part of the development workflow. It’s more valuable when it’s available where engineers already work, queryable in plain language, actionable without the context switch.

Figure 1.2: Put cost analysis in engineers’ hands with access to CloudZero’s structured and accurate data within the Kiro IDE.

What’s next

CloudZero is live in the Kiro Powers directory. Visit the CloudZero listing on kiro.dev/powers to install the Power and connect your CloudZero account. Full setup docs and supported queries are in GitHub.

If you’re a CloudZero customer, or an AWS seller or partner, and want to understand how CloudZero and Kiro work together, reach out to your FAM if you’re a customer, and if you’re an AWS partner or seller, reach out to me for more info

Author: Max Kelman

Max Kelman is the Director of Cloud Alliances at CloudZero, where he leads strategic partnerships with cloud partners like AWS and Snowflake. Before CloudZero, Max built his career across cloud consulting, enterprise software, and alliance strategy at companies like Atos, Cloudreach, and 10th Magnitude. He holds PMP and PSM certifications and is an advisory board member at Roosevelt University, his alma mater. Outside of work, Max is a fitness enthusiast, a car enthusiast, and someone who's always tinkering with the latest technology just to see what it can do.