CloudZero Cloud Cost Intelligence Platform
Multi-cloud costs have become transparent and teams gain persona-based insights to optimize spend
What is our primary use case?
We are using multi-cloud infrastructure including Microsoft Azure, GCP, Oracle OCI, and Snowflake data cloud. We are able to ingest the cost data from all these cloud platforms into CloudZero, and we are able to create dashboards for cloud cost visibility by persona and team using their tags.
CloudZero provides insights for optimizing costs, provides billing meter-wise category cost breakup, detects cloud cost anomalies, and gives alerts. CloudZero is a great solution for an enterprise organization looking for a third-party cloud cost management solution, and it provides meaningful data insights for optimizing multi-cloud costs.
As a supply chain management software company with 10+ product lines, creating persona-based dashboards allows each team to view their spends with respect to end user computing, security team, product management team, and product development teams, so they can view their cloud spend based on the cloud platforms they are provisioning resources.
What is most valuable?
CloudZero is a multi-cloud cost management solution for enterprise organizations who want to view their cloud spend in a single dashboard with appropriate information and identify cost anomalies in a faster manner.
The best features CloudZero offers include persona-based dashboards, meaningful data insights to optimize cloud spend, and telemetry data and integrations with other cloud platforms, along with email-based proactive cost anomaly alerts.
CloudZero offers a single pane of dashboard to understand cloud cost visibility for a multi-cloud infrastructure, and we were able to drill down into unit economics to understand the unit level cost in each cloud platform.
The governance and security are excellent, allowing us to create and assign permissions based on each persona, so the security features are outstanding.
The accuracy and reliability are excellent by using CloudZero AI features, and we were able to get more meaningful data insights for optimizing cloud spend.
The features are excellent and we were able to add the AI feature in CloudZero to get more valuable cost optimization insights.
Using CloudZero dashboards, every team is able to understand their cloud spend by cloud platform and it helps to detect cost anomalies before there is a cloud cost spike.
What needs improvement?
CloudZero can be improved by ingesting more AI features for analyzing the database platform as a service, and we need more AI-related features in CloudZero.
With respect to reporting, we need more customizable reports and additional cloud platforms need to be supported in CloudZero, such as Splunk and AppDynamics. These are the SaaS platforms CloudZero needs to work with so that other SaaS platforms can be integrated into CloudZero to understand cloud cost spend.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using CloudZero for more than two years as our cloud cost management solution.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
CloudZero is a stable product.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
CloudZero platform is scalable because we were able to ingest data from four cloud platforms: Microsoft Azure with 25,000+ virtual servers and 800+ subscriptions, more than 10 regions in Oracle OCI, and multiple regions in Snowflake. CloudZero platform is scalable in terms of viewing costs and providing data insights from larger volumes of information.
How are customer service and support?
CloudZero customer support is supportive and helpful.
How was the initial setup?
The pricing is competitive, and we were able to set up CloudZero in a couple of weeks.
What about the implementation team?
From a licensing perspective, we do not have any SKU numbers and are adding more volumes from multiple cloud platforms.
What was our ROI?
We have seen a return on investment.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We were able to reduce 20% cloud spend using CloudZero insights, and we were able to purchase more reservations and savings plans, perform rightsizing activities, and clean up orphaned resources in Microsoft Azure cloud, Oracle OCI cloud, and Snowflake data cloud.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We evaluated IBM Apptio and IBM Turbonomic before choosing CloudZero.
What other advice do I have?
Creating multi-cloud cost visibility dashboards for different personas allows us to get cloud cost visibility for Blue Yonder.
If you are a SaaS organization looking for a cloud cost management solution, you should consider CloudZero. CloudZero provides a single pane of glass dashboard for getting multi-cloud cost visibility. I would rate this product a 9.
Great for attributing cloud spend to specific data science projects
CloudZero’s Customizable Cost Tracking with Business Insight
I don’t have to rely on rigid, predefined reports. I can tailor the cost tracking to match our business needs and present the data in a way that makes sense for leadership and engineering teams. That level of customization has been the most valuable part for me.
While the analytics capability is powerful, having to build a new dashboard each time I wanted detailed insight felt cumbersome and time-consuming. It would be much more efficient if more detailed usage metrics were accessible directly within the standard Explorer view.
That benefits us by giving better visibility into what’s driving spend, improving forecasting, and enabling more informed decisions around optimization and pricing.
Exceptional Support, Streamlines Cost Management
Exceptional Cost Management and Customer Support
Quick API and One-View Resource Visibility
API is quick and allows me to do multiple group bys.
Not that its cloudzeros fault, but costs are delayed
All Cloud Platforms in Centralized location
Flexible Cost Management with Ease of Setup
Joey's CZ Review
Actionable Cloud Cost Visibility with Near Real-Time Insights and Strong Unit Economics
By attributing costs to teams, services, features, and customers, it enables meaningful collaboration between Finance and Engineering and supports informed decision-making.
The near real-time insights and strong unit economics capabilities help organizations proactively manage cloud spend, reduce waste, and align infrastructure investments with business outcomes.
While the platform is powerful, fully leveraging its advanced features requires an upfront investment in enablement and ongoing governance. Additionally, some organizations may find that achieving the most granular insights depends on a certain level of data hygiene and integration effort, which can take time to mature.
This has benefited us by improving cost ownership, reducing unplanned spend, and enabling proactive cost optimization rather than reactive cost control. It also strengthens forecasting accuracy and supports margin protection by making the financial impact of technical decisions visible early and in near real time.