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Point A: 1835. Andrew Carnegie is born in a weaver’s cottage in Dunfermline, Scotland. The cottage has one main room, which the Carnegies share with another family. Point B: 1901. Andrew Carnegie becomes the richest man in the world when Carnegie Steel Company wins the Iron vs. Steel industrialists’ war, and he sells the company to J.P. Morgan for the modern equivalent of $450 billion.

The Anthropic Enterprise connector pulls per-user Claude Enterprise cost and usage into CloudZero, so you can allocate Claude spend to the teams that drove it.

At Datadog, our broad Kubernetes footprint amplifies the significance of a familiar autoscaling tradeoff: Overprovisioning wastes cloud spend, while underprovisioning threatens reliability. We built Datadog Kubernetes Autoscaling (DKA) to help teams rightsize their workloads by generating intelligent resource recommendations and automating multidimensional workload scaling. Across Datadog, adopting DKA has eliminated more than $3 million in annualized idle compute costs while reducing reliability risks.

The core of ROI is visibility. If you can clearly see … 1. What it costs to produce the thing you make, and 2. How much money it makes you … then calculating ROI is easy. But with AI, as with the cloud before it, getting that visibility is extremely challenging. Why? Because the cost data associated with each is inherently chaotic.

CloudZero Explorer now tracks your query history and lets you save up to 12 configurations and 10 favorite dimensions, so your most-used cost analyses are one click away.

Eight new Azure recommendation types now scan your environment for idle, unattached, and over-provisioned resources, then tell you exactly what to cut.

This is the first in a series we’re calling AI ROI Dispatches, where we share stories from CloudZero and our customers on tying AI spend to real business outcomes.

CloudZero now splits an Amazon Bedrock line item into spend by model and by the team, user, or project behind each call, straight from your AWS bill.

How to track expenses for a business: categorize expense types (operating, software, cloud, travel, capital), choose a tracking method (spreadsheet, accounting software, expense management tool, or cost intelligence platform), connect data sources (bank feeds, cloud billing APIs, SaaS invoices), assign ownership per cost center, set a reporting schedule, and audit quarterly.

The CloudZero VS Code Extension 2.0 adds a sidebar that brings CostFormation namespace management directly into your editor, so you never have to break flow for a browser tab.