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Google Cloud Functions is now Cloud Run functions: what it is, and what it really costs

Aug 27, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
Google Cloud Functions is Google's serverless functions product, renamed Cloud Run functions in August 2024 and folded into the Cloud Run platform. You write event-driven code, Google runs it, and you pay per request, per vCPU-second, and per GiB-second after a free tier of 2 million requests a month. The catch: per-invocation billing scales your mistakes exactly as efficiently as it scales your product.
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Shipped: API keys that keep their own permissions current

Aug 27, 2026 By Kaitlin Woo In CloudZero
The most common reason to create an API key in CloudZero is to send data, such as AI telemetry or billing exports. Until now, that meant picking individual scopes from a list and hoping you chose the right ones. That works on day one. The problem is day ninety. Permissions on a key have always been a snapshot of the day you created it. A new AI telemetry endpoint ships in October, and a key created in August has no idea it exists.
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Supabase pricing: plans, free tier limits, and the bills AI is quietly creating

Aug 27, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
Supabase offers four plans: Free ($0, two projects, 500 MB database each), Pro ($25 per organization per month plus usage), Team ($599 per month, adds SOC 2 and SSO), and Enterprise (custom). The base fee is the floor, not the bill. Compute ($10+ per project), egress ($0.09/GB), storage, and monthly active user charges stack on top, so real production bills run $35 to $200 per month. In June 2026, a database company most CFOs had never heard of raised $500 million at a $10.5 billion valuation.
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Shipped: CUR 2.0 is GA, and migrating takes one click

Aug 26, 2026 By Kevin Lamb In CloudZero
CUR 2.0 is generally available and on by default, so every AWS connection you make now starts with the richest billing data AWS offers. That richness is important. CUR 2.0 carries AWS caller identity, which is what puts Bedrock and other AI spend on the role that drove it instead of leaving it as one number in your bill. It also populates AWS Account Name automatically. Both of those are yours the moment the connection is live. Getting there is a single step now.
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GitHub Copilot Enterprise pricing [2026]: seats, AI credits, and the September cliff

Aug 26, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
GitHub Copilot Enterprise pricing is $39 per user per month, and since June 1, 2026, each seat includes $39 in monthly GitHub AI Credits, pooled across your whole organization and consumed by token usage at per-model rates. The seat price is fixed. The bill is not: usage beyond the pooled credits is charged on top, which is why the real Enterprise question in 2026 isn't the price per seat. It's your engineers' token consumption.
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Shipped: Cost alerts in the Google Chat space where your team already works

Aug 25, 2026 By Kevin Lamb In CloudZero
If your company runs on Google Workspace, your team lives in Google Chat. That is where the standup happens and where threads turn into decisions. Cost alerts can now go there too. This is relevant because an alert only does something if it reaches people in a place where they can talk about it. Email is great for a record but not great for a reaction. An anomaly notification sitting in an inbox waits for that person to open it, decide it is real, and then go tell everybody else.
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Shipped: Give your telemetry streams human-readable names

Aug 24, 2026 By Kevin Lamb In CloudZero
Telemetry streams carry the unit metrics behind every cost-per-unit number you report. Now each one can say in plain language what it measures. You can call a stream whatever you want to: “MCP tool calls” or “Checkout transactions” or “Documents processed.” Spaces, capitals, and punctuation all work, and you can change the name whenever the metric’s purpose gets clearer. The identifier the pipeline uses stays exactly where it is.
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The Hidden Costs of Inefficient Inventory Management

The Hidden Costs of Inefficient Inventory Management

Aug 24, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
When businesses look at how healthy their operations are, they often zero in on the most obvious costs: rent, salaries, and marketing. Inventory usually falls into this category too, with its costs simply seen as the price of goods and warehouse storage. But this narrow view misses a whole network of hidden expenses that come from managing inventory poorly. These less obvious costs can quietly eat into profits, stretch resources thin, and slow down growth, affecting much more than just the bottom line.
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AI cost governance: policies to control AI spend

Aug 21, 2026 By Doug Bonderud In CloudZero
AI cost governance is the set of policies and controls that keep AI spend predictable and attributable: budget caps and token quotas set before deployment, prompt caching to cut repeat token costs, hard limits on reasoning steps and tool calls, and unified allocation so every dollar maps to a team, feature, or customer. Governance fails when it's advisory. It works when the caps are enforced in the platform and someone owns the number.
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Shipped: Explorer refresh: show more, scroll less

Aug 20, 2026 By Kaitlin Woo In CloudZero
CloudZero Explorer answers a cost question in two parts. The chart shows what your spend did and the table underneath shows which service, account, or team did it. Until now, the chart pushed the table below the fold, and actions like creating a View or checking Anomalies were buried multiple clicks deep. Now the chart and table share the screen and a new right rail puts Favorites, Views, Anomalies and Insights one click away without covering your data.
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