CloudZero Reviews

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.

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.

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.

I have been using CloudZero for more than two years as our cloud cost management solution.

CloudZero is a stable product.

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.

CloudZero customer support is supportive and helpful.

The pricing is competitive, and we were able to set up CloudZero in a couple of weeks.

From a licensing perspective, we do not have any SKU numbers and are adding more volumes from multiple cloud platforms.

We have seen a return on investment.

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.

We evaluated IBM Apptio and IBM Turbonomic before choosing CloudZero.

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.

I have used CloudZero in a multi-cloud fashion, connecting to various public cloud environments in order to observe costs and then generate reports, dashboards, cost anomalies, and everything cloud FinOps related.

I have used CloudZero to generate reports to look at costs within specific cloud accounts, and one way in which it can help is if there's a cost anomaly within a specific cloud account. I have looked at the costs across a period of days to identify when it occurred and for which resources it occurred, which enabled drilling down into exactly why that occurred, driving cost reduction.

The main use case is to build reports, but I have also used it, and my team has used it, to build out dashboards over long periods, looking at maybe Kubernetes cluster insights, setting budgets, and working out shared cost allocation. There are many features within CloudZero that have allowed us to use it in a variety of ways.

The best features of CloudZero, in my opinion, are their reporting capabilities, their right-sizing capabilities for compute instances, their asset inventory feature, and their dashboard functionality.

Probably the dashboard feature stands out most because it allows bringing together lots of different widgets to look at lots of different types of costs across different cloud accounts, allowing me to look at many pieces of data within one screen, which is very useful to refer to.

With CloudZero being a FinOps tool, it allows looking at cloud costs from a variety of vendors from many different cloud accounts. Within our organization, it has been beneficial because we are able to take costs from loads of different cloud endpoints and then make those costs more efficient, effectively helping us to reduce the costs that we spend, which is great for the business.

I don't know how much money specifically we have saved, but CloudZero has definitely helped us with cost savings the more we use it, and it allows for better data visibility, which is invaluable in the modern workplace, especially in highly technical and tech-driven companies such as ours.

In terms of improvements for CloudZero, I felt there could be potential improvements in their budget section. I have used other tools before where the budget feature is a little easier to use in terms of the UI. I also found updating their business mappings quite difficult. When I first started using the tool, one of the first things demonstrated was a YAML config file that was thousands of lines long, which had to be updated and pushed for changes to occur within CloudZero. I would like a feature where you could update elements directly through the UI, as I understand they plan to bring that into the tool at a future date, since using that long YAML file can be very difficult and lead to errors.

Although CloudZero's reporting feature is very good, I feel I have used tools that have more feature-rich qualities for their reporting features than CloudZero, which could be something valuable considering their reporting feature is also popular.

I have used CloudZero for around several months, maybe just under a year.

CloudZero is very stable. I did not notice any issues with technical instability, and I can see that it scales with a large number of cloud accounts, which is impressive.

CloudZero's scalability is good. It can definitely scale to hundreds and hundreds of cloud accounts, and I imagine it can scale into the thousands as well. I have no complaints there.

The customer support from CloudZero is great. We have interacted with a few individuals from the company and have no complaints. They were brilliant, and I really enjoyed working with them.

Positive

We have used various FinOps tools within the organization, primarily the native public cloud tools. Within AWS, GCP, and Azure, they have their own FinOps tools, which were good, but since they are specific to the clouds, we had to use numerous tools at once rather than a single tool like CloudZero, which acts as a one-stop shop for aggregating all of that data.

I thought the cost for CloudZero was reasonable for the tool, and the CloudZero team was interested in making it a reasonable cost as well, in terms of what we were looking for. The setup was quite seamless with them because we would meet regularly, and their initial support was very good. I definitely enjoyed that phase.

We did not evaluate other options at the same time. We were more focused on whether to continue using the cloud-native tools within the public clouds or look for a multi-cloud tool like CloudZero. Between the two, using a multi-cloud tool has definitely provided many benefits that the cloud-native tools did not.

I rate CloudZero as nine out of ten. It is a very strong tool, and I definitely enjoy using it. I can see how it can drive cost savings and benefits for all of their customers, but there are areas for improvement just as with any tool, though there are not any standout limitations to using it, making it very strong.

I chose nine out of ten because there are some areas for improvement with CloudZero. They are very minor, and there is nothing that breaks functionality or usage. The main reason is that long YAML config file which requires thousands of lines of coding and editing, and if that were not the case, it might be a ten out of ten if I could edit directly through the UI.

I do not think there are any improvements needed for CloudZero that I have not already mentioned. It is largely just the YAML file related section and a couple of other minor improvements, but nothing large or glaring. It is a very good tool.

I cannot share specific business metrics due to data sensitivity, but I can definitely say that CloudZero can save cloud costs. It is feature-rich in terms of reporting and dashboards, and its cost anomaly aspect can help if costs ever skyrocket. I would highly recommend it to other companies looking to make their cloud costs more efficient or reduce them.

I would recommend others to use CloudZero because it is a brilliant tool, and to engage their support staff throughout the setup journey, as they are definitely experts and very helpful.

CloudZero is a great tool. I have definitely enjoyed using it and have seen business benefits from it, so I am very happy with the tool. I rate this review as nine out of ten.

We conducted a proof of concept with CloudZero that lasted three to four months. Our major focus was examining the tagging compliance report to generate a compliance dashboard, and CloudZero provided good capabilities in this area. During the POC, CloudZero assisted us by building a dashboard and helping us evaluate compliance percentage across different segments, different cloud providers, and different business sectors.

At that time, we examined tagging compliance, but we were also interested in optimization capabilities. CloudZero was deployed in our organization as a POC on the public cloud, and we used Azure and AWS as cloud providers for the POC.

CloudZero's best feature is the dashboarding capabilities. The specific capabilities that stood out to me are the dashboard and reporting functionality. CloudZero has positively impacted my organization during the POC, and the dashboarding capabilities are strong.

The dashboarding capabilities benefited my team by providing real-time compliance reports, which I found valuable. There was definitely a return on investment during the POC, particularly with the dashboarding capability and the real-time compliance view of the tagging, which was an excellent feature.

I would appreciate CloudZero to have the capability to integrate with more cloud providers. Beyond integration with additional cloud providers, I would prefer CloudZero to introduce enhanced capabilities, especially in cost optimization and Kubernetes support.

I would value CloudZero having the capability to work with metadata, to provide cost reporting dashboards, and to offer workload integrations involving Kubernetes, including pod utilization tracking. I chose a rating of seven because I'm looking for CloudZero to focus more on the optimization side and Kubernetes clustering. CloudZero has strong capabilities in tagging, compliance, and dashboarding, which is valuable, but there are other areas in the FinOps space that CloudZero should definitely prioritize. The improvements I mentioned should be sufficient.

I have been working in my current field for almost the last four years.

There were no issues with downtime and reliability during the POC; it performed well.

We only tested CloudZero with a limited cloud account because it was a POC, so I cannot speak to its scalability with larger data sets or multiple cloud accounts.

CloudZero's customer support was very good, and I interacted with their team during the POC.

Positive

Previously, we used Excel reporting and Power BI for tagging compliance and cloud cost management, but it was not real-time. We were seeking something that would provide real-time compliance capabilities.

I'm not aware of the POC pricing, but I believe CloudZero did not charge us during the POC, so I'm uncertain.

We did not evaluate other options before choosing CloudZero.

I would rate CloudZero as a seven on a scale of one to ten. I would rate the customer support a nine on a scale of one to ten. Others looking into using CloudZero should experiment with their data set and develop their use cases to determine whether CloudZero can address their specific needs. My overall review rating for CloudZero is seven.

If you want to build, its workflow is very complex.

We wanted it for compliance and tagging purposes. They could not satisfy our needs because we were looking for something in a graphical form, like pie charts, and for untagged tech. We were applying various filters that they did not support. It is good for cost optimization but ineffective for tagging compliance and budget allocation.

I rate cost optimization as three-point five out of five. I give budget allocation a two out of five. Tagging Compliance is the main reason we decided not to go with it. I would rate it two out of five.

The tool charges one percent of cloud users, which is too much based on the capabilities they are providing.

It's a scalable product. We started with a very limited set of data, but it is scalable.

Support is fine. They are responsive and knowledgeable.

It is deployed on the cloud.

We have many other tools. Even among the many tools we have seen and evaluated, some have far better capabilities than Cloudability or others. So, every tool has its pros and cons.

Overall, I rate the solution a six out of ten.

We are using CloudZero for all the financial statistics to manage finances related to AWS, Azure, GCP, Datadog, and New Relic.

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.

There is a need for UI improvements. We are in discussions to provide feedback for changes and enhance the dashboard to match our requirements.

Our company has been using CloudZero for around four to five months. It is a new product for us.

The stability is pretty good if you have some coding experience. However, certain unique keywords need to be studied initially.

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.

Positive

Before CloudZero, we were using Cloudability.

The initial setup is straightforward and quite easy for us because we have good support and a finance account manager connecting with us.

I'm not sure about the exact pricing since we have an enterprise segment. It is quite cost-friendly compared to other platforms.

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.