Case Study: Neon achieves 700% higher engineering cost ownership with CloudZero

How Neon Used CloudZero To Increase Engineering Cost Ownership By 700%

Neon, a Brazil-based digital bank, needed a better way to engage more engineers in FinOps as its cloud usage scaled quickly. Its three-person FinOps team was struggling with limited visibility, complex tools, and tag-based allocation gaps across AWS, Azure, GCP, MongoDB, and Kubernetes. Neon turned to CloudZero to improve cost allocation, visibility, and engineering-led cost ownership.

Using CloudZero, Neon unified cloud cost data, streamlined reporting with CloudZero Analytics, and gave engineers timely, relevant cost insights through CloudZero Insights. The results were significant: engineering engagement increased by 700%, monthly active users rose from about 5 to 40, and the team created 44 analytics dashboards. Neon also quantified key unit economics like cost per card and reduced an expensive S3 resource by 77% and an EC2 instance by 40%.

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Daniel Abreu

Principal FinOps Culture Engineer