CloudZero Release Notes

May 2025

Add a User via the UI: Organizers can now add a user directly from the user settings page. This is available for customers with and without SSO enabled. Learn more.
All User Roles can now switch between Organizations: We’re thrilled to announce an upgrade to Organization Management that is going to make life a whole lot easier for our customers! Tenant switching is now available to all Primary Org users that have the Organization Management feature enabled – regardless of role. Whether you are an Organizer, Contributor, or Viewer, you can now seamlessly switch tenants. When users switch into another org, their role from the Primary Org will carry over – no need to manually reassign roles or elevate permissions.

Jira Integration: Set up an app integration with Jira so you can create work items from Insights, allowing your team to track and resolve cloud cost issues faster. Learn more.
Analytics Dashboard Folders: Organize dashboards into folders with customizable visibility settings for user groups, organization-wide access, or private use, ensuring users only see the information relevant to them. Learn more.
CloudZero Agent for Kubernetes v1.1.0: Leverage an in-cluster collector application that provides end-to-end telemetry tracking, seamless API key rotation, customizable upload intervals, and simplified integration. Learn more.
Quick Link to Platform Status: Quickly access CloudZero's status page from the question mark drop-down menu in the top navigation of the app.

Multiple API Keys: Create and manage API keys with finely scoped permissions for improved security, flexibility, and usage tracking. Learn more.
Insights And Anomalies By Groups: Users in limited access groups can now view Insights and Anomalies. Learn more.
Filter Insights And Anomalies By Dimension: Use dimension filters to view only the Insights and Anomalies directly associated with a custom or core dimension, such as product or provider account. Learn more.

Kubernetes Labels And Annotations: Enables selective ingestion of specific Kubernetes labels and annotations with granular control over metadata from various Kubernetes resources. Learn more.
Anomaly Resource Breakdown: Provides deeper visibility into cost anomalies by displaying specific resources contributing to cost issues, helping users quickly pinpoint and resolve unexpected spending. Learn more.
Enhanced Proportional Allocation Flexibility: Offers more granular time-based allocation options with the ability to allocate costs monthly and specify cost types for improved financial tracking. Learn more.
Automatically Fill Gaps In Telemetry Streams: Automatically populates missing timestamps in cost and usage data by using the most recent available timestamp to ensure continuous and consistent reporting. Learn more.

Amazon Q Developer Chat Integration: Introduces a CloudZero plugin for Amazon Q chat that enables accessing cost insights directly in the AWS Management Console. Learn more.
OpenAI Integration: Allows customers to easily pull in OpenAI spend data and analyze costs by project or AI model, providing greater visibility and optimization opportunities.
AWS Auto Insights - S3 API Costs: Provides alerts when API request costs exceed 80% of S3 bucket spend, recommending moving high-access data to Standard storage tier. Learn more.
AWS Auto Insights - Glacier Storage: Highlights excessive data retrieval costs in Glacier storage, suggesting moving active data to Standard storage tier. Learn more.

Cost Type Access By Group: Introduces granular data access controls allowing user groups to limit visible cost types and set default cost types. Learn more.
SSO Integration Enhancements: Provides a unified view of SSO integrations with improved management and testing capabilities. Learn more.
AWS Auto Insight - IPv4 Addresses: Identifies costs associated with AWS-provided IPv4 addresses, indicating opportunities to reduce unnecessary costs and providing suggestions for how to eliminate or optimize costs related to public IPv4 addresses in your AWS environment. Learn more.
AWS Auto Insight - Lifecycle Rules for S3: Identifies when there are S3 buckets with spend only on Standard Storage, indicating that use of Intelligent-Tiering or Lifecycle policies could be applied to reduce cost. By leveraging S3 Intelligent-Tiering or S3 Lifecycle, customers can save up to 10% on storage costs. Learn more.

AWS Support Amortization: Enables proportional spreading of AWS monthly support charges across different business units with activation by FinOps Account Manager.
CSV Import → API Example Template: Automatically provides API URL and JSON template for CSV file uploads to simplify automated data ingestion for unit cost metric telemetry streams and allocation telemetry streams
AnyCost API Public Repo Examples: Releases a public GitHub repository with example integrations to help admins build custom cost data adaptors from various cloud providers. Learn more.

Organization Management: Create and configure tenant organizations for clients, development environments, or separate businesses. Organizers can also manage user access to tenant organizations.
Managing Views API Endpoints: Programmatically create, update, and delete Views using the CloudZero API.