CloudZero is a cloud cost intelligence platform that automates the collection, normalization, and allocation of cloud spending data across various providers, enabling precise cost visibility and management. By utilizing AI-driven anomaly detection and detailed unit cost metrics, it helps organizations identify inefficiencies and optimize their cloud expenditures, resulting in measurable savings.
Funding
$62.1M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Organizations struggle to accurately allocate cloud spending across various services, products, and teams, leading to inefficiencies and difficulty in optimizing cloud costs. Traditional methods often rely on imperfect tagging and manual analysis, resulting in incomplete visibility and delayed identification of cost-saving opportunities.
Solution
CloudZero provides a cloud cost intelligence platform that automates the collection, normalization, and allocation of cloud spending data from any IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS provider. The platform uses a code-driven approach to organize cloud spend, enabling teams to align costs with business metrics without perfect tagging. By combining billing data with business and technical telemetry data, CloudZero delivers precise unit cost metrics and a unified view of cloud spend. AI-powered anomaly detection identifies cost inefficiencies, while a dedicated FinOps Account Manager provides ongoing consultation and support.
Target Audience
CloudZero is designed for engineering, finance, and FinOps teams in high-performing organizations that need complete visibility into cloud costs, the ability to pinpoint spend anomalies, and the tools to build cost-efficient software.
Features
- Data Normalization: Ingests and normalizes spend data from any IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS provider into a common data model.
- Cost Allocation: Allocates 100% of cloud spend, even without perfect tagging, using CloudZero CostFormation.
- Shared Cost Allocation: Automatically allocates shared costs by combining billing data with business and technical telemetry data.
- Unit Cost Metrics: Develops precise unit cost metrics, such as cost per customer, product, or feature, and presents them in intuitive dashboards.
- Kubernetes Visibility: Allocates 100% of Kubernetes costs, including shared costs, with hour-level granularity.
- AI-Driven Anomaly Detection: Identifies abnormal spend events and alerts relevant engineers.
- Budget Management: Combines hourly data granularity with unit cost metrics for precise budgeting and forecasting.
- FinOps Enablement: Provides a dedicated FinOps Account Manager for training, savings opportunities, and ongoing consultation.