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Engineering Accountability

Provide Each Team With A View Of Their Work

The first step to empowering engineers is to show them what they’re working on.

With CloudZero, you can organize spend into whatever views make sense for your development teams – like team spend, per application spend, or product line.

Each engineering team will have relevant visibility, so they’ll know exactly where their spend stands.

Empower Engineers To Build Fast With Cost Guardrails

Cost anomaly alerts notify finance if engineering is tracking ahead of budget.

This enables engineers to experiment with new services and quickly understand the cost impact of their decisions — ultimately helping build a cost-conscious engineering culture.

Enable Engineers To Quickly Investigate And Resolve Cost Issues

CloudZero alerts engineering teams of cost anomalies and trends, related to the products and features they’re working on.

From there, engineers can explore intuitive and interactive cost data – showing them recent engineering events that may have triggered it. They can quickly drill down to the resource level and investigate the cause.

Fast Feedback For Migration And Digital Transformation

Whether you’re moving to the cloud or transitioning to Kubernetes, engineers need to learn quickly. CloudZero gives you visibility into costs of your transformation, while providing engineering context to help them understand the cost implications of new services as they’re learning.

You can track the progress of any project, while communicating effectively with stakeholders about how costs will change over time – setting expectations about when cost may get higher before it gets lower in the middling of a transition.

Hold Engineers Accountable For Metrics That Actually Matter

It’s impossible to say whether a bill is “too high” or not without context. Instead of holding engineers accountable to an arbitrary budget or monitoring percentage of overall increase, CloudZero helps your engineering team understand their unit economics.

You can drive a culture of accountability around meaningful metrics, like cost per customer, user, transaction, and more.

This provides context while creating alignment between finance and engineering – so everyone can be on the same page when it comes to cloud spend.