Having clarity into your cloud costs makes all the difference to your budget and your cloud efficiency. Here we examine two different cost optimization tools: Stratusphere™ and CloudZero. We look at their focuses and reports, how they drive cost efficiency, and the pros and cons of each.
Stratusphere™ is a comprehensive FinOps tool that empowers you to understand your spending and enact change to reduce your cloud costs. The software’s unique insights are prioritized by the impact it will have on your spending and the effort it will take for you to enact the change. Stratusphere™ also pulls data from all your AWS accounts so you can see all your spending information in one place. It is the perfect solution for companies with complex AWS environments. It also highlights potential savings across your AWS organization.
CloudZero is a cost-optimization platform that integrates all cloud providers’ data into one platform. It enables you to see all your spending in one place without spending time tagging all costs. It also provides you with automated notifications if your cloud spending spikes unexpectedly so you can make changes. You can also input your full budget to see your cost forecast.
The two solutions we’ve presented have different focuses. Stratusphere™ was created for you to easily adjust your spending based on easy-to-understand dashboards to save you time as well as money.
CloudZero was made so that teams could easily visualize all spending across all your cloud platforms, from Azure to Mongo DB.
Stratusphere™ provides you with pre-made reports and clear dashboards so that you don’t have to waste time adjusting and maintaining reports. You can input your targets to see benchmarks and your performance.
CloudZero’s are more personalizable for you to view different dashboards and create reports based on different spending, platforms, and full invoices.
Stratusphere™ is optimized for FinOps teams in private equity firms. It gives you insights into AWS spending across your entire portfolio. Enterprises can also benefit from its in-depth, shared view of your spending across all AWS accounts.
CloudZero was created for engineering, finance, and FinOps teams. For engineers, it provides visibility into spending anomalies, finance teams can improve margins and GTM strategies. Finally, FinOps teams can take use it to have clarity on spending and accelerate FinOps maturity.
Both Stratusphere and CloudZero aim to improve visibility and transparency on cloud spending. All teams can work better together with a full understanding of where their spending is going.
The difference is that Stratusphere focuses on improving cost efficiency by providing clear, actionable insights. CloudZero aims to bring all your cloud data together in one place.
The integrations both Stratusphere and CloudZero provide are with cloud platforms. Stratusphere pulls data from all your AWS accounts, and CloudZero links to AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Mongo DB, and more.
Stratusphere was designed to be intuitive and easy to use, it takes up to an hour for all your information from AWS to populate dashboards. From there, you’re ready to go. We are available to support you when you need it.
CloudZero provides their customers with a FinOps Account Manager to ensure you follow best practices and have monthly check-in meetings. The platform is more complex than Stratusphere so has a steeper learning curve, which is why it offers an account manager to support customers.
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Our long-time customer, Crunchyroll, a leading anime platform, began using Stratusphere™ as they had experienced massive growth. This increase in use meant that their platform became more complex and they didn’t have cost visibility.
With Stratusphere™, Crunchyroll gained a consolidated view of AWS usage costs and potential cost optimization findings across all their AWS organizations.
Crunchyroll identified 5x actual monthly savings compared to month 1, they also had 3x total actual monthly savings compared to month 1 in configuration-based findings. Crunchyroll teams were able to take immediate action on high-value, low-effort findings, with 2x total actual savings per month compared to month 1 in findings remediated on the first day of review.
Our easy-to-use tool is specifically engineered to streamline your AWS costs, ensuring every dollar contributes to your business's growth and efficiency. With Stratusphere™, you gain access to unique insights and actionable strategies tailored to your singular AWS environment. Don't let complex cloud costs hinder your progress. Embrace clarity and control today.
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