Cloud Cost Management

Harness Cloud Cost Management simplifies and automates the features FinOps, CloudOps, and Engineering teams need to take control of cloud spend.
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CloudZero

CloudZero is the cloud cost intelligence platform that puts spend into the context of your business. By aligning engineering, infrastructure, and finance teams around metrics like cost per product feature, customer, and development team, CloudZero enables better strategic decisions, improved unit economics, and efficient spending.

Company size
Company size

50

Founded
Founded

2016

Funding
Funding

$15.6M
CloudZero raised an $8M Series A-III (Venture) funding round in Dec 2020

CloudZero is categorized as:
Cloud Cost Management (CCM)

How Does CloudZero Compare?

CloudZero can provide cost visibility across a variety of cloud and SaaS vendors beyond AWS, Azure and GCP, but lacks cost optimization for anything other than AWS. They also require third party tools to provide automated cost savings features that Harness includes as part of a complete solution for cost visibility, optimization and governance.

CloudZero vs Harness: DevOps Tools Comparison | Harness

Updated

November 30, 2023

  • SaaS
  • Audience & Primary Users
  • Cloud Support
  • Time Granularity
  • Tag Management Required
  • Hybrid Cloud Visibility
  • Cloud Account Visibility
  • Cloud Region Visibility
  • Application Visibility
  • Microservice Visibility
  • Environment Visibility
  • Non-Cluster Visibility (Services)
  • Cluster Visibility (Kubernetes/ECS)
  • Root Cost Analysis (3 Metrics)
  • Cloud Event Correlation (e.g. deploy)
  • Cost Recommendations
  • Alerting & Budgets
  • Anomaly Detection
  • Reporting
  • Documentation
  • Support
  • Training
  • Automated Idle Resource Management
  • Cloud Cost Business Intelligence

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Engineering & Finance

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Engineering

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Hourly

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<with><with> Anything in AWS

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Features
Harness CCM
CloudZero
Solution
Deployment Option

SaaS and Self-Hosted

SaaS

Harness CCM
Turbonomics
Multi-Cloud Support

AWS, Azure, and GCP

AWS, Azure, GCP + SaaS Apps

Harness CCM
Turbonomics
On-Prem Cost Monitoring

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Kubernetes Only

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Harness CCM
Turbonomics
Pricing Model

Percentage Cloud Spend

Percentage of Cloud Spend

Harness CCM
Turbonomics
Cost Visibility
Cost Perspectives / Chargeback / Showback

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Cost Categories / Dynamic Bucketing

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Kubernetes Cost Allocation (By Node/Cluster/Workload)

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AWS, GCP Only

Multi-Cloud Cost Visualizations

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Import 3rd Party Costs

Coming soon

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Out-of-the-Box Dashboards

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Custom BI Dashboards

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Forecasting

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Cloud Inventory

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Cost Optimization
Anomaly Detection

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Automated Idle Resource Management

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Spot Orchestration

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<with><with> via Xosphere Partnership

Cluster Orchestration on Spot Instances

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Kubernetes Node-Pool Recommendations

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Kubernetes Workload Recommendations

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AWS Compute Recommendations

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Azure Compute Recommendations

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GCP Compute Recommendations

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RI / SP Planning and Recommendations

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<with><with> via ProsperOps Partnership

Automated RI / SP Contract Execution

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Governance
Out-of-the-Box Governance Policy Rules

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Automated Governance Rule Enforcement

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AI Assisted Governance Rule Creation

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Budgets

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Alerts

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Reporting

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Administrative
Multi-Currency Support

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<no><no>

MSP Margin Adjustments

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Role-based Access Control

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Full Audit Trails

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<no><no>

APIs Available

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24/7 Support Available

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Training

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Documentation

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Detailed Feature Comparison

Harness Cloud Cost Management Vs. CloudZero

Summary

CloudZero provides strong visibility into costs across multiple cloud environments beyond just AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. They’ve developed a unique system for importing costs from third-party cloud providers such as Snowflake, NewRelic, MongoDB, Databricks, and more that can give their users a more complete view of their application spend. As with many vendors (like Harness), they can normalize these costs and present them in views that match their users' business contexts.

However, if you want to save money, and not just count it, then you’ll need to look beyond CloudZero, as they don’t have any automated cost savings features built-in, and their recommendations only apply to AWS (and in fact, you must be an AWS user to use CloudZero.) They’ve partnered with 2 other firms for cost-savings automation features, but that then requires their customers to manage two or three vendors, not one. 

Harness is your one-stop for all your cloud cost visibility, optimization, and governance needs, providing native automation that can help you save up to 80% on your cloud costs. 

Cost Optimization

You don’t want to just see your cloud costs, you want to reduce your costs and have the best cloud efficiency possible for your cloud spend across your multi-cloud environments, preferably with strong automation built-in to reduce the burden for your engineering teams.

CloudZero primarily focuses on cost visibility, which has left its cost optimization features lacking. The Cloud Advisor tool that is meant to surface cost savings opportunities remains in beta. Their Insights focus on AWS savings opportunities only, and it’s likely you’ll get the same level of information from AWS directly. In order to provide automated cost savings, CloudZero requires you to bring third-party vendors on board to provide AWS Spot Instance Orchestration (Xospere) and Savings Plan/Reserved Instance contract management (ProsperOps). They have no native capabilities to automate cloud cost savings.

Harness goes beyond just recommendations to deliver a fully integrated set of tools for automating cloud cost management. Our Commitment Orchestrator automatically manages your savings plan and reserved instance commitments based on your savings goals, and leverages your RI commitments when making resource recommendations. Our Cloud AutoStopping feature allows you to proactively manage idle cloud resources, shutting them down when not in use, and bringing them back up when needed. With Spot Instance Orchestration built in, our Cloud AutoStopping can save customers up to 80% on idle cloud resource spend.

Kubernetes Support

Cloud-native infrastructure relies on Kubernetes to manage shared cluster resources. You need strong insights into cluster usage and savings opportunities to maximize your cluster performance. 

CloudZero can provide visibility into Kubernetes spend across multiple environments, but it can’t give you detailed insights into your Kubernetes clusters outside of AWS. Even on AWS, they require both a cluster agent and AWS CloudWatch in order to gain the telemetry needed to allocate shared costs correctly. They provide some basic recommendations for the underlying cluster infrastructure, but can’t help you optimize your node pools to match your actual usage.

Harness gives you deep visibility into your Kubernetes spend across all your multi-cloud environments (including on-premises clusters) with cost perspectives that match the way you do business. Our recommendations are granular to the workload and the node pool configurations to fully optimize your clusters. We can also automate cluster management with Cluster Orchestrator, which can both autoscale clusters as well as integrate native spot instance orchestration for cluster instances.

Cloud Event Correlation

It’s a developer's world, and the features and applications that they bring to market drive your company's revenue. But wouldn’t it be great to understand the cost of deployments, as well as the impact of new features on your cloud costs? 

To correlate feature releases or engineering deployments with changes in cloud costs, a cloud cost management tool needs to have context behind an organization’s continuous delivery (CD) pipelines. CloudZero provides insight into cost changes as they correlate to deployments via their integrations into continuous integration (CI)/CD tools. However, we are unsure how they assign this context to specific cost anomalies.

Harness ties right into a customer’s pipelines to make the correlation between deployments and cost changes as changes happen, with full visibility into where that context is pulled from.

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