Cloud Fin Ops Senior at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Top 10
Jan 28, 2026
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
There is a need for UI improvements. We are in discussions to provide feedback for changes and enhance the dashboard to match our requirements.
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.