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The $600 AI Cap That Sent Employees Golfing

Nov 2, 2026 By CloudZero In CloudZero
In this video, Brady Lenahan, VP of Sales at CloudZero, shares what he’s hearing from customers when the cap hits before the month ends: employees who’ve built their workflows around AI stop working productively and wait for next month. Some go golfing, some clean the garage. Either way, finance loses both the productivity and the visibility. There’s a better option than capping AI spend you can’t see.
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How to Capitalize AI Spend Without the Gray Area

Nov 2, 2026 By CloudZero In CloudZero
In this video, Emily Allen, Director, Finance & Accounting at CloudZero, explains why AI capitalization is still unclear for most finance teams, and how CloudZero gives them a repeatable approach. As AI writes more of the code, finance needs to know which AI spend went to qualifying development work and which should be expensed. CloudZero records which project each AI coding session served, what kind of work it was, and what it cost, so finance has the evidence behind every decision.
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5 AWS Logging Tips and Best Practices

Oct 31, 2026 By Sandro Lima In ChaosSearch
If you're an Amazon Web Services (AWS) user, you're probably familiar with some of Amazon's native services available for logging and monitoring, such as CloudWatch and CloudTrail. With that said, log management can get complicated quickly, especially if you're dealing with a high volume of logs from AWS Lambda functions or a multi-cloud/hybrid cloud environment. In this blog, we'll introduce the basics of AWS logging along with five tips and best practices for optimizing your log management in AWS.
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Webinar recap: FY2027 AI budgets and how finance leaders plan

Oct 30, 2026 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero
CloudZero's Emily Allen and Brady Lenahan talked through how finance capitalizes AI spend and sets limits on it after a year of companywide AI adoption. Picture your AI line item last fall. A few seats, one vendor, tucked inside the software budget. Now picture it today. That’s the year Emily Allen, director of finance and accounting at CloudZero, walked through in our 30-minute webinar FY2027 AI budgets: how finance leaders plan on October 29, 2026.
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Shipped: Dimension descriptions, right where you pick them

Oct 30, 2026 By Kaitlin Woo In CloudZero
Picking a dimension means choosing from a list of names. But names only tell users so much. “Product,” “Team,” and “Cost Center” mean different things in different orgs. If you’re building a report you have to guess which one fits the question you’re answering.
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Why haven't UK organizations moved off the hyperscalers?

Oct 29, 2026 By Mark Boost In Civo
Two-thirds of UK IT leaders say they would switch cloud providers to take back control. Fifteen percent have actually done it. That is the headline from Civo's Digital Sovereignty Revolution 2026, a survey of 1,000 UK IT leaders. The intent is loud and getting louder. The movement is almost silent. It would be easy to call that apathy. It is not. UK organizations are staying on hyperscale infrastructure they no longer fully trust for four very specific reasons. Three of them are structural.
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Shipped: Fit more of your cost data on one screen

Oct 29, 2026 By Kaitlin Woo In CloudZero
Most cost questions get answered the same way. You read a chart and the table under it together. Maybe you spot a jump on the chart, and then you go looking in the table for the service, account, or team that caused it. When you can see more of that table while the chart is still in view, the whole review goes faster. You’re also a lot less likely to lose your place halfway through.
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