Case Study: CloudZero achieves faster time-to-market and scalable cloud cost intelligence with Snowflake

CloudZero Builds a Cloud Cost Intelligence Platform on Snowflake

CloudZero is a Boston-based SaaS that turns cloud cost data into actionable business insight for engineering teams. Facing rapid growth, its legacy data architecture couldn’t keep up with massive, frequently refreshed data (hundreds of gigabytes per customer and billions of events per day), causing storage strain, report contention, costly data copies for testing and sharing, and up to an hour a day per engineer spent on infrastructure rather than product work.

CloudZero migrated its real-time analytics, anomaly detection, and ML workloads to Snowflake in two months, adopting a multi-cluster shared architecture, managed infrastructure, and Secure Data Sharing. The change reduced operational overhead, enabled near-real-time insights and self-serve onboarding, accelerated feature delivery (projects that would take quarters finished in under three months), and saved engineers 260+ hours per year—letting CloudZero deliver richer cost-per-customer reporting and scale its market growth.

CloudZero

Erik Peterson

Chief Technology Officer