In the last few weeks, industry headlines once again brought the need for businesses to have complete cost visibility and proactive cost management strategies to the forefront of the constantly accelerating cloud and AI landscape.
That’s why we’re excited to announce our latest product releases, designed to supercharge your cloud cost intelligence with deeper integrations into industry leaders like AWS and OpenAI. These new integrations, along with a pair of new auto Insights, make it easier than ever to optimize costs across your multi-cloud and AI-driven environments while maintaining the flexibility to innovate without financial surprises.
Read below to learn about the most notable features and enhancements our team has rolled out in the past month.
Amazon Q Developer Chat Integration
What It Is
The CloudZero plugin for Amazon Q chat allows you to access cost insights from CloudZero without leaving the AWS Management Console.
This new plugin allows users to understand AWS costs, get cost optimization insights, track billing and then dig in even further with follow-up questions about the status or cost impact of CloudZero Insights.
Once you configure the plugin, you can access CloudZero data by adding @CloudZero to the beginning of your question in Amazon Q chat.
Customer Value
This integration with Amazon Q Developer chat provides a seamless experience for team members who spend significant time in the AWS console by allowing them to easily get answers about cloud cost management directly from CloudZero without ever leaving their AWS environment. You can learn more by checking out our documentation here, or for even more details you can read Amazon’s documentation for this new plugin.
Status
Generally Available
New OpenAI Integration
What It Is
We are happy to announce a brand new integration to ingest costs from OpenAI. This new AnyCost Adapter allows you to pull in OpenAI spend data and break it down by cost per project or cost per AI model.
Customer Value
With AI costs and return on investment (ROI) being a hot button topic for C-level executives right now, this new cost adapter makes it easier for customers to gain visibility and uncover optimization opportunities for their AI projects. Our goal is to continue unlocking additional value to make it even easier for all customers to track and optimize their AI spend going forward.
Status
Generally Available
New AWS Auto Insights
What It Is
We are excited to announce the release of two additional AWS Auto Insights. In both of these cases, the platform is looking for high costs related to API request and data retrieval costs — often a sign that frequently accessed data is in the wrong storage class. While these tiers offer lower storage rates, frequent access can quickly drive up costs by triggering per-gigabyte retrieval fees.
High Ratio Of S3 API Costs To Storage Costs: This Insight alerts users when API request costs make up more than 80% of your total S3 bucket spend. To optimize spend, consider moving high-access data to the Standard storage tier, which eliminates retrieval fees — potentially cutting your S3 costs by up to 50%.
High Data Retrieval Costs For S3 Glacier Storage: Similar to the above Insight, this one highlights when high data retrieval costs are occurring in S3 Glacier storage tiers specifically. Amazon S3 provides three Glacier storage classes:
- Glacier Instant Retrieval — Best for rarely accessed data that still needs millisecond retrieval.
- Glacier Flexible Retrieval — Designed for archives where some data may need to be retrieved within minutes.
- Glacier Deep Archive — Ideal for long-term storage of rarely accessed data.
If frequent access is driving up costs, consider moving active data to the Standard storage tier, which eliminates retrieval fees and ensures real-time availability—helping you reduce S3 spend without sacrificing accessibility.
Customer Value
Each of these new automated insights provides guidance for optimizing areas that indicate a high likelihood of wasteful spending related to storage costs in AWS. As always, our goal is to highlight simple yet effective ways for our customers to eliminate unnecessary costs in their environment and maintain ultimate efficiency across their entire cloud environment, and we will continue to invest heavily in this area of the platform.
Status
Generally Available
The Cloud Cost Playbook
The step-by-step guide to cost maturity
