CloudZero Reviews & Product Details

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CloudZero provides unmatched visibility into cloud costs, enabling engineering teams to track unit economics, optimize spend, and prevent surprises—all without perfect tagging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Support for all of our major providers, from the infrastructure providers to major other services like Snowflake, Datadog, etc. Flexible reporting and alerting, stellar customer success managers. Its like having a great tool and second set of eyes on our spend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Small company with immaturity in places, still learning, but listening and moving forward. Note this is minor and has much improved over the last couple years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CloudZero makes it easy for us to allocate costs and understand the spending for our Cloud environment (primary AWS). Additionally, it allows us to generate insights and clearly flag changes that are unexpected or resulting from architectural decisions. We are leveraging CloudZero mostly on the engineering level with our delivery teams, but we also use it as a financial support team to plan our costs and allow financial reconciliation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are still some open points to integrating the discovered Insights into our processes, such as a Jira Integration allowing our Engineers to act on findings even faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CloudZero can give you an excellent view into your Cloud costs, enabling you the flexibility to cut up complex infrastructure into buckets that make sense for your use case.

The ability to quickly integrate multiple Cloud Providers into the tool gives an amazing single pane of glass. This allows for easy comparison between spend changes across multiple vectors.

Asside from the software itself, the access you gain to a FinOps Account manager has been great. Having an expert from the CloudZero side to support in configuration and troubleshoot problems enables things to get sorted quickly - ultimately improving the experience for internal customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Where I think they can improve is arround some of their reporting functionality. In part, this is the overall management of those alerts including configuration and dissmissal but also the depth of information they provide. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy interface. Ability to integrate over 50+ telemetries and allocation for our org. Great self-service dashboard capabilities. Unlocking cost transparency at the ressource level makes it accessible from C-Level to engineer and is the key piece to enable FinOps throughout the organization. Great customer support team, post sales and constant product evolution is amazing! Implementation was very easy even given our highly complex telemetries for shared cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We used to have some latencies in loading dashboards and explorer views, but this has been fixed several months ago. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UI feels a bit clunky, but it's not a big pain point for a tool I do not use every day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The attribution model (cost-formation) is really powerful (without being too complex). It's helped us to allocate cost at various levels of the organisation. This in combination with the great UI enables infrequent users to quickly see what they are spending. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The forecasting side of the tool is pretty limited it would be great to see this evolve especially through the use of AI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CloudZero's Kubernetes cost reporting is accurate and very helpful to show engineering teams their share of cluster costs.

Cost Formation allows you to version dimensions/datasets. In addition, I can create dimensions much faster by defining the dimension in YAML.

CloudZero seems much more intuitive to use than other cloud cost platforms

The views are not as busy as other cost reporting platforms making it easier to read/use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

They need to improve their UX. I would like to add users via an API call.

We would like to see usage in gigabytes with costs for certain AWS services as well as for New Relic costs.

They need to improve their budgets so you can sort and filter Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.