Case Study: Skyscanner Decentralizes Cloud Cost Management with CloudZero

How Skyscanner Decentralized Cloud Cost To Their Engineering Teams

Skyscanner, the global travel hub, needed a better way to manage rising cloud spend by decentralizing cost visibility to the engineering teams that actually build and run its infrastructure. After a move to Kubernetes reduced cost visibility in its previous tool, the company looked to CloudZero for a cloud cost intelligence platform that could give engineers actionable insights and ownership over cloud costs.

CloudZero implemented its platform and helped Skyscanner route cloud spend data into weekly operational reports and team-level views by Squad and Tribe, with added forecasting and Kubernetes cost visibility. The result was immediate: Skyscanner identified and removed unnecessary infrastructure, achieved enough savings within two weeks to cover a year of licensing, and enabled engineers to make 1–2% cloud cost improvements every day while strengthening a culture of fiscal responsibility.

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Stuart Davidson

Leader of Production Platform Tribe