Overview of Connections

Connections are the foundation of your financial control plane. CloudZero connects to your cloud providers, SaaS platforms, AI platforms, and custom cost sources so every dollar is visible, allocatable, and tied to the business outcome it supports. Once connected, you can explore costs in the Explorer, organize them across teams, products, and environments with Dimensions, track them in Dashboards, set Budgets, and query them in the AI Hub.

All connections are managed in Settings > Connections. All native connections are read-only.

Supported sources

• Cloud Providers: Connect AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle Cloud.
• AI Platforms: Connect Anthropic, Cursor, and OpenAI.
• SaaS Platforms: Connect ClickHouse, Confluent, Databricks, Datadog, Elastic Cloud, Fastly, GitHub, MongoDB Atlas, New Relic, Snowflake, and Twilio.
• Kubernetes: Connect your Kubernetes clusters using the CloudZero Agent, EKS SCAD, or GKE cost allocation.
• Custom Cost Data Sources: Bring cost data from any other source using the AnyCost framework.

To check whether a connection is ingesting data correctly, see Connection Health. To remove a connection, see Delete a Connection. If your provider only accepts requests from approved IP addresses, see Fixed IP egress.

Fixed IP egress

Connect CloudZero to providers that only accept requests from approved IP addresses. When you turn on fixed IP egress for a connection, CloudZero sends every request for that connection from the CloudZero IP addresses, which you add to your provider's allowlist. The setting is per connection and off by default.

Fixed IP egress is available only on these connections:

• AI platforms: Anthropic, Cursor, and OpenAI
• Cloud providers: Oracle Cloud
• SaaS platforms: ClickHouse, Confluent, Databricks, Datadog, Elastic Cloud, Fastly, GitHub, MongoDB Atlas, New Relic, and Twilio

Turn on fixed IP egress

For a new connection:

1. In CloudZero, go to Settings > Connections and select Create Connection.
2. Under Available Providers, select your provider.
3. Fill in the connection details as described in the provider's connection guide.
4. Under Fixed IP Egress, select Use fixed IP egress.
5. In your provider, add each of the CloudZero IP addresses to the IP allowlist.
6. Select Create Connection.

For an existing connection:

1. In CloudZero, go to Settings > Connections and select the connection name to open its details.
2. Select Edit.
3. Under Fixed IP Egress, select Use fixed IP egress.
4. In your provider, add each of the CloudZero IP addresses to the IP allowlist.
5. Select Save Changes.

Each connection guide listed above has a Fixed IP egress section that links to the provider's allowlist documentation where available.

What to expect

Once fixed IP egress is on, every request for the connection comes from the CloudZero IP addresses, including data collection and requests from Test on the new connection form. The new connection forms for Datadog, Elastic Cloud, and Fastly don't include Test. CloudZero can send a request from any of these addresses, so add all of them before you test or save the connection. If an address is missing, requests from it are rejected and data collection succeeds only some of the time.

CloudZero IP addresses

Add all of the following addresses to your provider's allowlist:

• 52.0.118.180
• 52.0.33.111
• 34.207.222.149
• 34.193.111.240
• 100.30.110.234
• 54.85.9.231
• 35.175.48.156
• 100.50.61.179