Case Study: Wise engages 250+ engineers in proactive cloud cost management with CloudZero

How Wise Used CloudZero To Engage 250+ Engineers In Proactive Cost Management

Wise, the financial technology company behind Wise Account, Wise Business, and Wise Platform, needed a better way to manage rapidly rising cloud costs as it scaled toward $1B in revenue. Its existing tool, Cloudability, wasn’t making it easy for engineers to consume cost data, and finance was asking hard “why” questions about spend that Wise struggled to answer, especially across shared Kubernetes costs and its squad/tribe engineering structure.

Wise implemented CloudZero to ingest 100% of cloud spend across AWS, Snowflake, GCP, and Credal, improve allocation with CostFormation®, surface anomalies, and deliver cost data through dashboards and Slack alerts. With CloudZero, Wise reached 95% AWS allocation during the POV, engaged 250+ engineers in proactive cost management, identified a $72,000 anomaly in hours, and automated financial reporting for senior management business reviews.

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Ed Boorn

Technical Product Manager