Customizability. Feature velocity. Performance.
Capabilities that are critically important to all B2B software users. And capabilities in which CloudZero’s brand-new platform specializes.
Pitching a total frontend overhaul didn’t necessarily make me CloudZero’s most popular new PM. But it’s made CloudZero faster, more customizable for a wider range of personas, and easier to update with the new features that matter most to our customers. And, if I may say, it also looks beautiful.
As it happens, I just got married, so I have strong opinions about beautiful things worth showing off right now. So if you’ll indulge me, here is my PM equivalent of wedding photos: a series of product screenshots and descriptions that show you how CloudZero’s new UI makes us better equipped than ever to be the AI ROI company.
What’s new in CloudZero’s UI
Feature velocity
Far and away the most important outcome of this project was to ship more features on tighter timelines than was possible before. Our new frontend infrastructure does exactly that. Rather than take my word for it, check out all this cool new stuff we’ve shipped in the last couple months:
Multi-dimensional group-by
This was the #1 feature requested by our more technical users. In the previous UI, our Explorer page (our most highly trafficked page, for quick ad-hoc cost analysis) only let users group costs by a single Dimension — e.g., Service (EC2, RDS, etc.). Now, Explorer lets users group costs by two Dimensions, enabling them to quickly see costs through a multi-Dimensional lens.
So now, it takes two clicks to sort costs by Service and Product, Team and Environment, or any other two Dimensions that give you the insight you’re looking for. Want to know which product is driving up your EC2 costs? Which customer is eating up your AI budget? Simple — simpler than ever.
Favorites
Getting to the right view in Explorer often takes a lot of clicks — the right dimensions, filters, and groupings stacked just so. Once you’re there, the analysis is exactly what you need. Getting back there tomorrow is another story.
Now, it’s simple. You can save up to 12 query configurations as Favorites, so your most-used views are always one click away. And even if you didn’t think to Favorite something, Explorer keeps your full query history, so any view you’ve built before can be pulled back up instantly, no rebuilding required.
Infinite load
Before, CloudZero showed the top 50 cost sources within a particular Dimension. If you wanted to see more, you could export a spreadsheet, but you couldn’t see them within the platform. Now, we show 100 results by default (instead of 50) and allow you to load more in increments of 3,500, allowing you to get to the full result set in the platform (no export required). This gives users across all levels of scale a much more complete picture of a specific Dimension’s underlying costs.
Usage data in Explorer
Before, Explorer only showed cost data. If you wanted to juxtapose cost data with usage data to assess resource efficiency, you had to click out into an observability platform and manually juxtapose usage and cost data.
Now, CloudZero’s got usage data in Explorer. You can overlay usage for all services on top of the cost data. So, if costs are going up and usage is staying flat, you can see that instantaneously, and prompt an investigation into how to get more efficient.
Fast & furious
Rebuilding our frontend on a single modern codebase with a unified design system has made CloudZero faster and more responsive. Some stats from the early days of our new UI:
- Pages load 28–61% faster
- JavaScript execution is 85% faster, meaning clicks, filters, and table interactions respond almost instantly
- Warm load times are 14–77% faster
Customizability
User level
- Dark Mode. Dark Mode is a great example of what our new UI makes simple to deliver. Sound the trumpets: CloudZero now has Dark Mode. You can toggle it manually, or choose System Mode, which automatically matches whatever your OS is set to.
- Customize Visualizations. Users can now control how cost data shows up in the tables, charts, and dashboards they materialize — which columns they do and don’t want to see, in which order, and in what color palette. CloudZero now has eight different color palettes that automatically apply throughout the platform when users change them.
Organizational level
- Cost Trends. Admins can now manage Cost Trends at the organization level, giving enterprise teams more control over how Explorer displays comparison data.
Cost Trends shows period-over-period changes, including how much a certain dimension’s costs changed, in terms of dollars and percentage. For teams focused on current-period spend, especially across larger datasets or longer lookback windows, that extra comparison data may not always be needed.
With org-level controls, admins can set the default experience across the company, helping teams prioritize either trend context or faster load times for large-scale cost analysis.
- Org-wide messaging. Admins can now send organization-wide messages directly from CloudZero Settings.
Use Organization Message to share important updates, warnings, issue notices, or confirmations with every user in your organization. The message stays visible until each user dismisses it, so teams can surface critical information where work is already happening.
It gives admins a faster, self-serve way to keep users aligned without needing CloudZero to create or manage the message.
The best is yet to come
CloudZero looks and feels cleaner, moves faster, is more customizable, and has many more of the features that customers have been requesting for ages. And now that we’re built on a single modern codebase with a unified design system, the best is yet to come.
It’s easier for us to build and ship features like AI Streaming Allocation that give users real-time views into what’s driving their AI costs, who’s responsible, and how to manage it. It’s easier for users to find and act on the cost insights they need to drive business value. It’s the humming infrastructure underlying CloudZero’s financial control plane for AI spend.
The new experience has been in Public Access since April. The new experience will go GA for all customers tonight at 8 pm ET.
There’s a lot more new stuff under the hood. Dive deeper on the rest of what makes CloudZero The AI ROI Company:
Curious to see it all in action? Request a demo here.
