Cloud Companion brings a fully reimagined interface, rebuilt analytics, AI-powered filtering, and embedded cost optimization to Google Cloud operations.
SPRING, Texas, April 8, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- WALT Labs today announced that WALT Carbon is now Cloud Companion, marking the next evolution of its Google Cloud management platform. More than a rebrand, Cloud Companion is a ground-up redesign with a new interface, new analytics engine, and new AI capabilities, built for teams that need faster answers and deeper visibility into cloud spend and usage.
Cloud environments are getting more complex, but the tools used to manage them have not kept pace. Organizations overspend, miss optimization opportunities, and burn hours navigating dashboards to answer basic cost questions. Cloud Companion closes that gap. It combines rebuilt analytics, natural language interaction, and proactive cost recommendations into a single platform that helps teams spend less time searching for insights and more time acting on them.
Cloud Companion is part of the WALT Labs Companion suite and deploys on Google Cloud.
What Cloud Companion Delivers
- Redesigned experience across 16+ pages with a modernized interface, unified navigation, and a cohesive design system built for speed and clarity
- Rebuilt BigQuery Analytics allowing users to toggle between Cost, TB Scanned, Jobs, and Slots in a single view, with click-to-drill-down query analysis and grouped expensive query insights for faster optimization
- AI-powered natural language filtering where users ask questions like "Show me BigQuery spend for the carbon project by month" and the dashboard responds automatically, removing the need to manually navigate filters
- Embedded cost optimization recommendations surfaced directly alongside spend data, including commitment opportunities, idle resource recommendations, and anomaly detection, each with estimated savings and confidence scores
- Redesigned Security Center across all five sub-pages for a more cohesive security operations workflow
- Improved spend data accuracy with a billing label fix that ensures project spend matches the GCP Console exactly
- Performance improvements with Redis caching across analytics and billing endpoints for significantly faster page loads
Why It Matters
Cloud spend management is a financial discipline, not an infrastructure chore. Most teams lack the visibility to identify waste until it has already compounded. Cloud Companion makes cloud economics visible in real time, giving finance teams the analytical depth they need and engineering teams the operational speed they expect.
"Cloud Companion represents a significant step forward. We rebuilt core parts of the platform to improve usability, speed, and depth of insight, from BigQuery Analytics and AI-powered filtering to more accurate spend reporting and embedded recommendations." - Stewart Smith, VP of Technology, WALT Labs
Cloud Companion is available now. Existing WALT Carbon customers will be migrated automatically as part of the rollout.
About WALT Labs
WALT Labs is an AI-enabled cloud operator helping organizations operate with clarity in an AI-driven world. As a Google Cloud partner, WALT Labs delivers managed cloud services, AI-enabled business operations, and the Companion product suite, a set of purpose-built tools that embed AI into the core of how organizations run. WALT Labs works with organizations that are serious about moving from AI experimentation to AI operations. Learn more at waltlabs.io.
Media Contact
Mackenzie Dunkleberger, WALT Labs, 1 2812064147, [email protected], www.waltlabs.io
SOURCE WALT Labs
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