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Idle resources
9 CHECKSRunning but doing nothing. Immediate savings with zero impact.
- stop
- stop
- delete
TRUSTED BY 500+ COMPANIES
THE PROBLEM
Your cloud bill has hidden waste
Companies waste 30-50% of cloud spend on resources nobody uses. Most teams don't know where — they just know the bill keeps growing. Billing dashboards show what you spent; they don't tell you what to do about it.
SpendZero finds the waste automatically and hands you the fix.
Idle resources
RDS databases running 24x7 with zero connections. EC2 at 1-2% CPU. Load balancers with no targets.
Oversized instances
Sized for peak traffic that never came. 8 vCPU machines using 0.5 vCPU, paying 4-8x the need.
Forgotten storage
Unattached EBS volumes, months-old snapshots, gp2 volumes that should be gp3. It accumulates silently.
Over-requested pods
Kubernetes requests set once and never revisited. Nodes look busy on the bill while half the CPU sits reserved and unused.
COST OVERVIEW
See spend, waste and savings in one dashboard
Every connected account, region and cluster: what you spend, what is wasted, what you have already saved, and where the next dollar comes from.
DETECTION ENGINE
37+ checks across the six places cloud waste hides
Every check reads real utilization, not just inventory, and attaches an estimated monthly saving and a recommended action.
02
Oversized resources
8 CHECKSProvisioned far beyond what utilization patterns need. Specific target sizes, not just a flag.
- → m5.large
- → r6g.xlarge
- → t4g.medium
03
Storage waste
7 CHECKSVolumes, snapshots and buckets nobody reads, each with its exact monthly cost.
- delete
- prune
- −20%
04
Network waste
5 CHECKSSmall hourly charges that add up across accounts and are rarely reviewed.
- release
- delete
- disable
05
Kubernetes workloads
5 CHECKSRequests versus real usage per container, idle namespaces, poorly packed nodes and spot-eligible pools.
- → 600m
- scale 0
- → 11 nodes
06
Reserved capacity gaps
3 CHECKSSteady on-demand usage where Reserved Instances, Savings Plans or CUDs cut 30-60%.
- SP 1-yr
- RI
- CUD
KUBERNETES COST OPTIMIZATION
Find the waste inside your clusters, not just around them
Cloud bills show the nodes. SpendZero shows the workloads on them: what each namespace costs, what it requested versus what it used, and which nodes could be bin-packed, spot or gone.
Request rightsizing
Compare CPU and memory requests with 14-day p95 usage per container and recommend new values with safe headroom.
Cost per namespace and team
Allocate node cost to namespaces, deployments and labels so every team sees what it spends.
Node and bin-packing waste
Flag underused node groups, idle nodes and pools that could shrink or move to spot.
Idle and off-hours workloads
Find preview environments and dev namespaces that nobody has touched, and schedule them down.
Node efficiency · prod-eks
18 NODES · 3 GROUPS41% used
63% used
78% used
Bin-packing the general pool to 11 nodes and moving batch to spot saves an estimated $2,900 / month. Pairs with Karpenter where installed.
Cost per namespace and team
prod · checkout team$9,420
prod · payments team$6,180
data · ml platform$5,760
preview + dev$2,310
Allocated from node cost by requests, including shared system overhead. Exportable for showback.
ACTIONS AND GOVERNANCE
Don't just find waste. Fix it, and keep it fixed.
Act on recommendations from the dashboard with confirmation and a full audit trail. Then set budgets and policies so the waste doesn't come back.
RecommendedReviewedConfirmedExecutedSavings verified
One-click actions
Stop idle instances, delete unattached volumes, resize databases and apply request changes from the dashboard. Every action requires confirmation.
Full audit trail
Who recommended, who confirmed, what ran, what it saved. Reversible where the cloud allows it.
Budgets and alerts
Thresholds by account, service, namespace or team. Slack or email when costs spike or a budget is at risk.
Tagging and policy
Enforce required tags and owner labels so every dollar has a name next to it. Untagged spend is surfaced, not hidden.
HOW IT WORKS
From connect to savings in 5 minutes
No agents, no sidecars, no change to running infrastructure. Read-only credentials in; a ranked waste report out.
- 012 min
Connect
Read-only IAM role or GCP service account, created from a snippet we provide. Clusters are discovered automatically.
- 02automatic
Inventory
25+ services across every region and account, plus workloads and nodes in each connected cluster.
- 03first scan · minutes
Detect
37+ checks read utilization and produce a ranked list with estimated savings per finding.
- 04you decide
Act
Confirm one-click actions or export recommendations to your team. Everything is logged.
- 05ongoing
Monitor
Scheduled scans, budget alerts and savings tracking keep the report current.
CLOUDS AND SERVICES
Built for multi-cloud from day one
AWS and GCP are live, including their managed Kubernetes services. Azure is in development.
Amazon Web ServicesAVAILABLE NOW
Full multi-account and multi-region support with rightsizing and one-click actions.
EC2RDSEBSS3ElastiCacheRedshiftLambdaNAT GatewayCloudFrontDynamoDBECSEKS
Google CloudAVAILABLE NOW
Idle VMs, oversized instances, unattached persistent disks and committed-use gaps.
Compute EngineCloud SQLGKECloud StorageBigQueryPersistent Disk
KubernetesEKS · GKE
Workload rightsizing, namespace cost allocation and node efficiency for clusters in connected accounts.
Requests vs usageNamespace showbackBin-packingSpot eligibilityIdle namespaces
Microsoft AzureCOMING SOON
Azure VMs, Azure SQL, Blob Storage, AKS and Functions. In development; join the waitlist for early access.
Virtual MachinesAzure SQLBlob StorageAKSFunctions
SPENDZERO FOR EVERY TEAM
Run it yourself, or let our FinOps engineers run it for you
Built by the SquareOps team that manages cloud infrastructure for dozens of companies every day. We built SpendZero because we needed it ourselves.
Self-serve SaaS
FREE SCANSign up, connect an account, get recommendations in minutes. For DevOps and platform teams that want full control of the optimization workflow.
- All 37+ checks and Kubernetes rightsizing
- One-click actions with audit trail
- Scheduled scans, budgets and Slack alerts
Managed FinOps
BY SQUAREOPSSquareOps FinOps engineers run SpendZero on your behalf: implement recommendations, plan reserved capacity and Savings Plans, and deliver monthly optimization reports. For teams without a dedicated FinOps function.
- Engineers apply the fixes and own the follow-through
- Commitment planning: RIs, Savings Plans, CUDs
- Monthly report and savings review
No agent required
Read-only cloud API credentials. Nothing on your servers, no sidecars in your clusters.
Always current
Scheduled scans flag new idle resources automatically. No waiting for a monthly review.
Finds and fixes
Recommendations come with the action attached, confirmed by you, logged for everyone.
Backed by SquareOps
Built by the team behind SquareOps AWS managed services. FinOps engineers one click away.
CLIENT FEEDBACK
What teams say about working with SquareOps
SquareOps team is excellent in terms of understanding the problem statement and coming up with better solutions and a strong execution plan.
Working with SquareOps has been a great experience — their AWS DevOps engineers are highly skilled and consistently deliver strong results.
Nitin and the team went above and beyond to understand our environment and pain points. They helped resolve issues our internal team was struggling to solve.
PRICING
Start with a free scan. Pay only when it pays for itself.
The free scan covers all 37+ checks on your connected accounts. No credit card.
Free scan
$0
See the waste before you commit.
- All 37+ checks on connected accounts
- Kubernetes rightsizing report
- Estimated savings per finding
- One-time report, no actions
MOST TEAMS
Team
Contact us
Ongoing monitoring and actions.
- Scheduled scans across all accounts
- One-click actions with audit trail
- Budgets, alerts and tagging policy
- Namespace showback export
- Slack and email integration
Managed FinOps
Custom
SquareOps engineers run it for you.
- Everything in Team
- Engineers implement the fixes
- RI, Savings Plan and CUD planning
- Monthly optimization report
- Kubernetes and Karpenter tuning
FAQ
Questions about SpendZero
Not covered? An engineer replies within one business day.
consult@squareops.comSpendZero is a cloud cost optimization tool built by SquareOps. It scans your AWS, GCP and Kubernetes environments to detect wasted resources, recommend rightsizing and surface savings opportunities, with 37+ automated checks and one-click actions. Teams typically reduce cloud spend by 30-50%.
It connects via read-only API access and runs automated checks across compute, database, storage, network and Kubernetes. It analyzes utilization metrics to find idle and oversized resources, detects unattached volumes and old snapshots, and flags missing commitment coverage. No agents are installed.
For clusters in connected accounts, SpendZero compares each container's CPU and memory requests with its real usage, allocates node cost to namespaces and teams, and flags idle namespaces and underused node groups. Recommendations keep headroom above p95 usage so they are safe to apply.
AWS and GCP today, including EKS and GKE. Azure support is in development. For managed multi-cloud cost optimization, see SquareOps cloud cost management services.
Cost Explorer shows you what you spent. SpendZero shows you what you are wasting, recommends the fix, and lets you apply it. It also works across clouds and inside Kubernetes clusters, where billing tools only see nodes.
Less than 5 minutes. Connect an account with read-only credentials and SpendZero scans your infrastructure and delivers a waste report. No agents, no configuration, no disruption to running workloads.
The free scan covers all 37+ checks on your connected accounts so you can see where the money goes before committing. Ongoing monitoring, automated actions and managed optimization are paid. Contact us for pricing.
Yes. SpendZero scans all connected accounts across all regions and gives a consolidated view, which is especially useful for AWS Organizations with many member accounts.
Not without you. SpendZero only reads by default. When you act on a recommendation, every one-click action requires confirmation and is written to the audit log.
SquareOps offers Managed FinOps: our engineers run SpendZero on your behalf, implement the recommendations, plan reserved capacity and deliver a monthly savings report.
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