Use when proactively scanning for cost anomalies, unusual spending, unexpected charges, or irregular patterns — during weekly reviews, after incidents, or when something looks off
Use when comparing costs between time periods, environments, accounts, regions, or teams to understand spending differences and identify inefficiencies
Project the monthly cost of an infrastructure definition (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation, SAM) using CloudZero spend data. Reads IaC files, enumerates resources, and produces a line-item cost breakdown.
Use when a cost spike or unexpected increase has already been identified and you need to find which service, account, or resource is responsible
Use when analyzing whether costs are growing, declining, or stable over time — for forecasting, budget planning, or understanding spending velocity
Use when analyzing costs by organization-specific dimensions like teams, products, business units, or applications for showback, chargeback, or business-aligned cost reporting
Analyze code diffs for infrastructure cost impact using CloudZero spend data. Detects Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation, SAM, K8s, scaling, and application code changes that affect cloud spending.
Use when you need a detailed breakdown of a specific cloud service's costs — EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, etc. — to understand usage patterns and find optimization opportunities