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Allows many users to build new dashboards and integrate more data compared to other BI dashboards
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The best part of CloudZero is the UI for creating dashboards. It allows many users to build new dashboards and integrate more data compared to other BI dashboards. Users can create custom settings for budget forecasting and make their own backend configurations independently without involving CloudZero's team.
What needs improvement?
There is a need for UI improvements. We are in discussions to provide feedback for changes and enhance the dashboard to match our requirements.
For how long have I used the solution?
Our company has been using CloudZero for around four to five months. It is a new product for us.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability is pretty good if you have some coding experience. However, certain unique keywords need to be studied initially.
How are customer service and support?
The support team is quite good. We are directly connected with the officers since we are making a complete configuration from scratch. Currently, there is no dedicated support team; we connect directly with the engineering team and officers.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Before CloudZero, we were using Cloudability.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is straightforward and quite easy for us because we have good support and a finance account manager connecting with us.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I'm not sure about the exact pricing since we have an enterprise segment. It is quite cost-friendly compared to other platforms.
What other advice do I have?
I would not recommend it to small setups. It is preferable for larger enterprises with significant financial needs on cloud platforms.
I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
CloudZero: Centralized Cost Optimization Platform to review our cloud resource expenditures
What do you like best about the product?
* CloudZero provides a detailed cost breakup of our cloud resources & offers practical recommendations for saving expenditures.
* All access privileges given to CloudZero are minimal, so no customer compliance is compromised.
* We can easily integrate our Slack channel into our CloudZero account to get real-time billing alerts.
* Any incident ticket raised regarding technical challenges is addressed immediately by its support team.
* By enabling its resources tagging feature, CloudZero generates periodic reports on the usage of that particular resource group & it helps us track our expenses regularly.
* All access privileges given to CloudZero are minimal, so no customer compliance is compromised.
* We can easily integrate our Slack channel into our CloudZero account to get real-time billing alerts.
* Any incident ticket raised regarding technical challenges is addressed immediately by its support team.
* By enabling its resources tagging feature, CloudZero generates periodic reports on the usage of that particular resource group & it helps us track our expenses regularly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Improving its Dashboard with more filter options would be great for us. We are running through resource utilization from different cloud providers & having more filters would ease our task. This is a minor enhancement suggestion. We are satisfied with the cost optimization features and recommendations offered by CloudZero for our cloud infrastructure.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
* Resource tagging is brilliant in CloudZero as it provides clear visibility of our cloud infrastructure and related expenses.
* CloudZero Dimension is an interactive utility inside its platform where we can effectively drill down our cost explorer & detect anomalies.
* It also unifies all our monthly costs in a custom data format which is helpful during presentations with our clients.
* Categorizing our cloud cost allocation is also straightforward, as we can group them based on value, insight or demands.
* Monthly assessment report is beneficial to highlight where we can optimize our cloud expenses & prevent overspending on unused/underused resources in our cloud environments.
* CloudZero Dimension is an interactive utility inside its platform where we can effectively drill down our cost explorer & detect anomalies.
* It also unifies all our monthly costs in a custom data format which is helpful during presentations with our clients.
* Categorizing our cloud cost allocation is also straightforward, as we can group them based on value, insight or demands.
* Monthly assessment report is beneficial to highlight where we can optimize our cloud expenses & prevent overspending on unused/underused resources in our cloud environments.
I’m really like this application. Works perfect for me.
What do you like best about the product?
For me the best is main function of this application.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is no things to dislike in application.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This helps us to save money so cloud cost intelligence.
CloudZero review
What do you like best about the product?
That super cool that you can manage different kind of dashboards
What do you dislike about the product?
That would be better if you can expand the onboarding guide
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Real time costs consumption
Useful solution that enables us to drilldown into AWS expense and also identify increases, etc
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to drilldown into AWS in a targeted way with the ability to work with a consultant to refine the different reports you use.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes data needs alignment, especially with consistent changes to your AWS enviroement. Ensuring things are aligned with the way accounting looks at something is something you must consistently work on.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Visibility into AWS for multiple teams throughought Operations
CloudZero team is great to work with. Special shout out to MattM
What do you like best about the product?
Good people to work with and help us with COGS and cost visualization across AWS, Snowflake.
What do you dislike about the product?
No dislike, but we need integrations with GCP and NewRelic. We also need forecasting ability for 1 year (not just for 1 month)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Overall cost visualization.
Good product that puts a handle on AWS costs
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy for us to see breakdowns on different levels across the company. As a squad member I am interested to see how my team is spending money, but then it's also easy to validate this spending across the larger organization and compare how my team is doing.
What do you dislike about the product?
Using the tool from the APAC region is slower than I would like; it takes a while to filter down into the dimensions I'm interested in, and it's slow to move between the different filters. The slowness makes using the tool cumbersome from time to time, especially when you want to take a glance at your metrics.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This tool gives us detailed, hour-to-hour insights into our spending. When we are migrating our services, we can easily see the costs shift around. The software provides us with the confidence we are not missing any old resources when tidying up our migration.
Finally - Cost as an Operational Metric
What do you like best about the product?
* Setup and connection to your AWS accounts is really smooth and easy and utilizes least-privilege IAM permissions. The team has done a masterful job on this.
* The ability to slice and dice your cost data by so many different dimensions is a killer feature, especially the tag support. It's pretty easy to start to see immediate insights even without a reasonable tagging strategy or naming conventions. With a solid organizational strategy is where you find the biggest benefits - rolling up costs for teams/services/features or attributing cost per customer. CloudZero gives you insight into your cloud spend, but it also indirectly guides you towards building better products where such analysis is possible.
* The ability to see untagged resources in context via extrapolated metadata and related resources is a big help in cleaning up messes like old unmanaged AWS accounts and abandoned experiments.
* The performance and UX of the platform is quite good given the volume of billing data, screens are uncluttered and the information is easy to consume.
* The "resource diff" feature, while rudimentary at present, is a useful data point that can help you figure out why a cost anomaly might have occurred.
* The ability to change "cost views", e.g. real cost, billed cost, is supremely useful for communicating with different audiences. The unmodified AWS bill is terribly difficult to interpret if you're a developer trying to figure out why your service is suddenly costing more.
* Cost anomaly detection has saved my bacon on a number of occasions, especially when doing serverless work. Even with EC2-based systems it's useful - helping me find suddenly-overprovisioned clusters or instances left running.
* Seeing relationships for a resource you're analyzing is very useful when trying to solve a billing mystery. Often, a resource might have an incomprehensible name, but when seen in context with other related resources it becomes far more obvious what it is.
* The monthly trends, slack alerts, and document downloads are all great features. Each one helps you see your spend from a different angle.
* I like very much that CloudZero is branching out from EC2 and serverless into other areas like kubernetes and snowflake. Cost analysis is useful everywhere.
* The focus on unit economics applied to your cloud spend is highly welcome and a trend I'd like to see continue. It's a mark of organizational maturity to perform this analysis; I'd like it to be on the minds of every executive I work with. The fact that CloudZero says "yes, we value this philosophy and will help you with answering these questions" is a big reason why I chose CloudZero, and why I will continue to do so.
* The ability to slice and dice your cost data by so many different dimensions is a killer feature, especially the tag support. It's pretty easy to start to see immediate insights even without a reasonable tagging strategy or naming conventions. With a solid organizational strategy is where you find the biggest benefits - rolling up costs for teams/services/features or attributing cost per customer. CloudZero gives you insight into your cloud spend, but it also indirectly guides you towards building better products where such analysis is possible.
* The ability to see untagged resources in context via extrapolated metadata and related resources is a big help in cleaning up messes like old unmanaged AWS accounts and abandoned experiments.
* The performance and UX of the platform is quite good given the volume of billing data, screens are uncluttered and the information is easy to consume.
* The "resource diff" feature, while rudimentary at present, is a useful data point that can help you figure out why a cost anomaly might have occurred.
* The ability to change "cost views", e.g. real cost, billed cost, is supremely useful for communicating with different audiences. The unmodified AWS bill is terribly difficult to interpret if you're a developer trying to figure out why your service is suddenly costing more.
* Cost anomaly detection has saved my bacon on a number of occasions, especially when doing serverless work. Even with EC2-based systems it's useful - helping me find suddenly-overprovisioned clusters or instances left running.
* Seeing relationships for a resource you're analyzing is very useful when trying to solve a billing mystery. Often, a resource might have an incomprehensible name, but when seen in context with other related resources it becomes far more obvious what it is.
* The monthly trends, slack alerts, and document downloads are all great features. Each one helps you see your spend from a different angle.
* I like very much that CloudZero is branching out from EC2 and serverless into other areas like kubernetes and snowflake. Cost analysis is useful everywhere.
* The focus on unit economics applied to your cloud spend is highly welcome and a trend I'd like to see continue. It's a mark of organizational maturity to perform this analysis; I'd like it to be on the minds of every executive I work with. The fact that CloudZero says "yes, we value this philosophy and will help you with answering these questions" is a big reason why I chose CloudZero, and why I will continue to do so.
What do you dislike about the product?
* The ML features around untagged/unknown resources, while extremely useful, do not seem intuitive. I feel like there needs to be some sort of guide or wizard that can help you go from "I just connected these accounts" to "hey this thing is finding structure I didn't know about" to "hey I've mastered my tagging strategy and know exactly what's going on". Definitions and examples on the 3 divisions (cost group, feature, product) would also be helpful.
* There are no in-app definitions and examples for the different cost options (real cost, billed cost). I know them from talking with their team a lot and the views work fine, but this was not immediately clear. How credits, discounts, and support factors in is also unclear (though I understand this is being addressed)
* I use KMS keys a lot, but given their cryptic names I feel I need more context. Unlike many other resources, keys do not seem to have the context like relationships that I would need to identify what they are supporting. There are occasionally resources like this that are hard to track down.
* AWS is notorious for doing weird things with resource names, like putting instance name in a tag and key aliases in a separate resource. CloudZero could probably benefit from navigating some of these rules and showing the friendliest name possible for a resource. This would be especially helpful for things like large fleets of instances. Right now, the cost explorer contains a mix of easy-to-identify resources with incomprehensible ones and that makes discovery somewhat difficult. However it's still a lot better than using other tools!
* Relationship links are not bidirectional when you are drilled-down into a resource. This leads to potential blind spots where you can only see what's connected to what if you pick the right resource to look at.
* There's only a limited ability to drill into the cost explorer and uncover what's behind a "long tail". In a lot of cases I will see the top 5 taking up 20% of the total cost, with 80% being "other". Really unpacking what "other" contains is a bit more work than it needs to be IMO. There are no "negation" filters, where I could say "show me everything except these things I already know about"
* CloudZero has limited options for integration with your auth provider. Would be nice if it supported GSuite. There are also occasional glitches with signin - nothing a page refresh can't fix, but somewhat annoying.
* There are no in-app definitions and examples for the different cost options (real cost, billed cost). I know them from talking with their team a lot and the views work fine, but this was not immediately clear. How credits, discounts, and support factors in is also unclear (though I understand this is being addressed)
* I use KMS keys a lot, but given their cryptic names I feel I need more context. Unlike many other resources, keys do not seem to have the context like relationships that I would need to identify what they are supporting. There are occasionally resources like this that are hard to track down.
* AWS is notorious for doing weird things with resource names, like putting instance name in a tag and key aliases in a separate resource. CloudZero could probably benefit from navigating some of these rules and showing the friendliest name possible for a resource. This would be especially helpful for things like large fleets of instances. Right now, the cost explorer contains a mix of easy-to-identify resources with incomprehensible ones and that makes discovery somewhat difficult. However it's still a lot better than using other tools!
* Relationship links are not bidirectional when you are drilled-down into a resource. This leads to potential blind spots where you can only see what's connected to what if you pick the right resource to look at.
* There's only a limited ability to drill into the cost explorer and uncover what's behind a "long tail". In a lot of cases I will see the top 5 taking up 20% of the total cost, with 80% being "other". Really unpacking what "other" contains is a bit more work than it needs to be IMO. There are no "negation" filters, where I could say "show me everything except these things I already know about"
* CloudZero has limited options for integration with your auth provider. Would be nice if it supported GSuite. There are also occasional glitches with signin - nothing a page refresh can't fix, but somewhat annoying.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
* CloudZero is invaluable for running high-scale serverless applications. In such applications, it is very easy to release a new feature that costs too much, especially if you are moving fast and experimenting. This danger can be kept to a minimum.
* Getting a legacy AWS account under control. You all know these accounts - full of dead experiments, overprovisioned untagged instances, mystery buckets. CloudZero helps you inventory and trim the fat.
* Identifying and managing elastic infrastructure, from serverless to auto-scaling groups and everything in between. This has helped us manage multiple environments supporting 20+ engineers and hundreds of customers.
* Getting a legacy AWS account under control. You all know these accounts - full of dead experiments, overprovisioned untagged instances, mystery buckets. CloudZero helps you inventory and trim the fat.
* Identifying and managing elastic infrastructure, from serverless to auto-scaling groups and everything in between. This has helped us manage multiple environments supporting 20+ engineers and hundreds of customers.
Finally connects all the dots for cloud spending.
What do you like best about the product?
The anomaly detection and alerting puts it way ahead of their competitors. The UI is straightforward and they're willing to take and respond to input from their customers.
What do you dislike about the product?
No Google Cloud support. UI is sometimes a little slow but still much faster than the competition.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We've been able to identify some inefficiency in how we were using S3 buckets and where we were sending some of our network traffic and saved a bunch of money.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
CloudZero offers features their competitors don't and provides a much more pleasant user experience.
Developer-focused cloud cost tool with lots of potential.
What do you like best about the product?
Cloudzero has a simple UI with good slack / email integration that lets you get relevant data quickly. Anomaly detection is useful and promising (though it can be somewhat noisy), and when combined with weekly reports can help teams notice cost increases and lets development teams manage the costs of their own infrastructure, which can help find software problems in addition to controlling overhead. Product support from Cloudzero is great, and features keep coming.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some limits to reporting timeframes, comparing one year to the prior would be useful. There are a number of manual steps for setup/on-boarding that are not in the UI yet (its on the roadmap), so customer support is needed to get set up and make some changes in cost allocation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CloudZero lets us monitor costs per product area and provide that data directly to engineering teams, in addition to providing aggregated data. Notifications ensure that changes affecting costs are intentional, and help us decide where to work to optimize spend.
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