Last week, the FinOps Foundation released its latest installment of the State of FinOps report. This year’s theme: Cloud+.
Fortunately for all of us, Cloud+ isn’t yet another streaming service to add to an already infinite list. In the FinOps Foundation’s parlance, Cloud+ refers to all the non-public-cloud spending — e.g., SaaS, AI — that you’d want to group under the broad umbrella of “cloud spending.”
And, fortunately for you in particular, CloudZero has been Cloud+ since day one. We foresaw a time when companies would rely on a complex array of cloud, PaaS, and SaaS services, and we configured our platform to handle it. You can read the full State of FinOps 2025 report here, and you can rest assured that CloudZero is the optimal platform to meet the cloud trends of today and the future.
In this month’s release notes, you’ll find platform updates that connect cost visibility to efficiency outcomes. From enhanced Kubernetes visibility to refined shared cost allocation and an improved anomaly workflow, CloudZero continues to make it simpler than ever to drive proactive cloud efficiency.
Read below to learn about the most notable features and enhancements our team has rolled out in the past month.
Kubernetes Labels And Annotations
What it is: A new enhancement to our Kubernetes agent enables users to selectively ingest specific Kubernetes labels and annotations into the CloudZero platform.
This functionality provides granular control over which metadata is captured from various Kubernetes resources, including Pods, Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, CronJobs, Jobs, Nodes, and Namespaces.
Customer value: This enhancement empowers customers to tailor the metadata ingested from their Kubernetes environments, ensuring that only pertinent labels and annotations are captured. By focusing on relevant metadata, users can achieve more precise cost allocation and resource tracking, leading to improved insights and more effective cloud cost management.
Status: Generally Available
Anomaly Resource Breakdown
What it is: A simple yet powerful enhancement that gives users deeper visibility into cost anomalies by displaying the resources contributing to each issue. With this addition, whenever CloudZero detects an anomaly, users can quickly pinpoint its root cause and take immediate action to address unexpected spend.
Instead of just seeing a high-level anomaly alert, users can now pinpoint specific services, instances, or other cloud resources driving the deviation, making it easier to troubleshoot and resolve cost spikes efficiently.
Customer value: With Anomaly Resource Breakdown, users gain greater clarity and control over cost anomalies, reducing the time and effort needed to diagnose unexpected spending patterns. This feature helps teams act faster and more confidently, ensuring cloud costs remain predictable and manageable.
Status: Generally Available
Enhanced Proportional Allocation Flexibility
What it is: A recent enhancement allows users to define proportional allocation dimensions with more granular time-based options and cost type selections.
Now, users can allocate costs on a monthly basis, choosing between usage-based allocation or allocation by billing period, depending on their financial tracking needs. Additionally, a new option enables users to specify a cost type, such as BilledCost or CustomCost, ensuring that proportional allocations align precisely with their preferred financial reporting methods.
Customer value: With these enhancements, users gain greater precision and flexibility in cost allocation, making it easier to align CloudZero’s cost intelligence with internal financial structures. By choosing the right granularity and cost type, teams can improve accuracy in chargeback, forecasting, and cost accountability across departments, projects, or business units.
Status: Generally Available
Automatically Fill Gaps In Telemetry Streams
What it is: Our team has introduced a new “Fill gaps in time” enhancement that allows users to automatically populate missing timestamps in their cost and usage data streams. When enabled, this setting ensures that if a time series has missing data points — such as a skipped month in a monthly stream or missing days in a daily stream — CloudZero fills in the gaps by using the value from the most recent available timestamp.
For example, if an organization provides cost data for January, February, and April but not March, CloudZero will carry forward February’s value to populate March, maintaining continuity in reporting. Similarly, for daily granularity, if July 3 and 4 are missing, the system will use the value from July 2 value to fill those dates. This enhancement applies across Analytics and Explorer, ensuring consistent and complete datasets for more reliable trend analysis and decision-making. Learn more by reviewing step six here.
Customer value: This feature helps ensure more accurate and continuous financial and operational insights, even when data uploads have occasional gaps. By automatically filling in missing timestamps, users can maintain consistent reporting, avoid gaps in trend analysis, and improve the reliability of cost visibility without needing manual intervention.
Status: Generally Available
The Cloud Cost Playbook
The step-by-step guide to cost maturity
