CloudZero Cloud Cost Intelligence Platform

I have been using CloudZero  for around two and a half years now.

CloudZero  is mainly for cost visibility and tracking engineering spend and checking for any spikes or anomalies in costs.

What happened was that the engineering teams were creating resources for the testing environment. At the end of the day, no one shut those off, and each team was blaming the others while the financial costs were skyrocketing. We utilized CloudZero and saw which costs were rising due to which metrics, analyzed everything, and helped allocate those costs properly and take necessary further actions. We reduced our overall spend by roughly 40% for that particular month.

One of the other features is that we use it for budget forecasting and accountability. Overall, it helps us translate our bills into business metrics that make sense both to engineers and to the finance team.

The platform automatically converts the data into meaningful views and helps us keep a good track of all costing. Instead of just showing the cloud bills, it helps us measure cost per transaction, per user, and per API calls, which makes it quite easy to align cost with the overall cloud spend.

Probably the cost visibility using the dashboards is the most valuable, because it provides the overall picture as to where we are heading. It provides an overall good picture without going into depth, but also provides low-level, in-depth pictures.

We have seen a lot of difference in how cost is being handled. Since it provides a better picture of overall cloud visibility and helps in better accountability, there is a better sync between the engineering and finance teams and the overall leadership of the organization. I think that has been a really good outcome.

I do not think there are any further issues in CloudZero, but perhaps CloudZero should provide a little more flexibility in how everything is done, such as the structure of the charts and how the costs are being defined. Overall, everything is good.

I have been using CloudZero for around two and a half years now.

I think it is really good. We can add more accounts and other resources and just keep adding. It is very scalable.

I think it is all right. I have never contacted them.

We just used the AWS  native tools. Since they are only good for basic visibility, they do not provide any in-depth references or breakdown of the costs. That is why we switched to CloudZero. We did not use any other tools.

I do not think we evaluated other options. We read a few reviews online and thought that CloudZero is quite good.

CloudZero helped us save a lot of money. We had a peak saving of roughly around 40 to 50% for a month in this year itself. It varies, and we have an average saving of around 15%, but the highest is 40%. We save on an average 15 to 20% on our costs.

CloudZero is a really good tool. Overall, it bridges the gap between engineering and finance teams. Instead of just tracking the overall spend, it helps us measure cost per API call or per feature or per customer or per account. I think it is overall a really good tool for automation and cost allocation. I rate this product a 10 out of 10. I think organizations should definitely go with CloudZero.

Public Cloud

Amazon Web Services  (AWS)

What do you like best about the product?

I find CloudZero incredibly useful for coast analysis as it allows monitoring every step effectively and facilitates the creation of budgets efficiently. I really appreciate how it enables proper budgeting and economic optimization, offering a precisely detailed cost allocation. The main benefit for me is the significant amount of time I save using it, which is a crucial advantage. Its integration with other tools like AWS native service, Datalog for monitoring, and Slack for alerts further enhances its usability and functionality. Additionally, the setup was straightforward, which made transitioning from AWS Cost Explorer to CloudZero an easy choice. The product outperforms AWS in management, prompting my suggestion to the team to make the switch. All these factors contribute to my high likelihood of recommending it to others, which I rated as a 9 out of 10.

What do you dislike about the product?

I find the cost formation rules in CloudZero to be complex and challenging to understand, particularly for users with less experience, which could require more time to comprehend and utilize effectively.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use CloudZero for detailed cost analysis and budget creation, which ensures economic optimization and saves me significant time. The precise cost allocation is invaluable to my team.

What do you like best about the product?

CloudZero provides unmatched visibility into cloud costs, enabling engineering teams to track unit economics, optimize spend, and prevent surprises—all without perfect tagging.

What do you dislike about the product?

CloudZero can be pricey for smaller teams, has a learning curve for advanced features, and focuses mainly on cost intelligence rather than full governance tools.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

CloudZero solves the challenge of fragmented cloud cost visibility by providing granular insights and unit economics, helping teams prevent overruns, optimize spend, and align costs with business value

What do you like best about the product?

Cloud Zero Cloud Cost Management Solution really helps the customers to view their Multicloud Spend in single Dashboard for tracking the cloud cost spend, identify the cost anomalies, provides meaningfull data insights to optimize the monthly Cloud costs. It provides persona based Dashboards for the Leadership team, Finance team,Cloud Infrastructure Operations Team.

What do you dislike about the product?

Need to support more Public Cloud Platforms, Not Supporting onpremise cost spending, Automation for Cloud Cost optimization exeution is missing.
Renewal cost is bit high. Need to provide more data insights on identifying Azure Cloud cost optimization.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Provides excellent Dashboards forTracking MultiCloud Spend analysis which includes Azure,Amazon AWS, GCP, Snowflake.
Able to identify the unit based cloud spend for every cloud platform which is integrated in Cloud Zero.

What do you like best about the product?

Product
- Slack alerts on anomalies
- Slack alerts on spend till date
- Dimensions and tags helps us clean up the mess we have in AWS
- Breakdown of Cost Type view
- Budgets

Service
- Strong engagement from the Customer Service team helps keep cost monitoring a priority
- Always been responsive on Slack for any questions/requests

What do you dislike about the product?

UI feels a bit clunky, but it's not a big pain point for a tool I do not use every day.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It makes cost monitoring easy. I do not want to spend too much time on it but I also don't want to neglect it. CZ helps most with cost anomalies, budgets, and quick insights in the Insights tab.