Signing Up for CloudForecast
Start Your 30-Day Free Trial
Section titled “Start Your 30-Day Free Trial”CloudForecast offers a 30-day free trial with no credit card required. To get started, visit the sign-up page and create your account in minutes.
Filling Out the Sign-Up Form
Section titled “Filling Out the Sign-Up Form”The sign-up form asks for three things:
Work email
Use your company email address (for example, you@company.com). CloudForecast does not accept personal email addresses from providers like Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail. If you enter a personal email, the form will reject it and prompt you to use a work email instead.
Password Choose a password and confirm it in the field below. There is no minimum complexity requirement shown on the form, but pick something strong.
How did you hear about us? A short free-text field — just let us know where you found CloudForecast (for example, LinkedIn, Reddit, Google, a colleague’s recommendation). This field is required.
Once you have filled out all three fields, click Create Account. By doing so, you agree to CloudForecast’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
The Welcome Questionnaire
Section titled “The Welcome Questionnaire”After your account is created, CloudForecast redirects you to a short welcome questionnaire. This helps the team tailor your experience to your specific situation. It covers:
- Company website — Your organization’s URL.
- Average monthly cloud spend — Choose from a set of ranges: less than $100k/mo, $100k–$500k/mo, $500k–$1m/mo, or more than $1m/mo.
- Challenges you want to solve — A checklist of common cloud cost visibility and optimization challenges. Select everything that applies to your team.
Click Start your adventure to complete the questionnaire and land in the main CloudForecast application.
SSO Users
Section titled “SSO Users”If your company uses Single Sign-On (SSO), CloudForecast detects this automatically based on your email domain when you submit the sign-up form. Instead of creating a password-based account, you will see a message like:
“Your company uses Single Sign-On. Please log in using your company credentials.”
You will then be redirected to your company’s identity provider (such as Okta, Azure AD, or Google Workspace) to authenticate. No separate CloudForecast password is needed.
If you are unsure whether your company uses SSO with CloudForecast, check with your IT or engineering team, or contact CloudForecast support.
Troubleshooting
Section titled “Troubleshooting”Personal email rejected CloudForecast requires a work email address. If you see an error about your email domain, use the email address associated with your employer rather than a personal one.
Captcha verification failed CloudForecast uses Google reCAPTCHA to protect the sign-up form. If the automatic verification fails, a checkbox captcha will appear on the form. Complete the checkbox challenge and click Create Account again.
Redirected to SSO unexpectedly If you are redirected to your company’s identity provider when you expected to create a password-based account, your organization has configured SSO for your email domain. Complete the login through your identity provider — you do not need a separate CloudForecast password.
Did not receive a confirmation email Check your spam or junk folder. If you still cannot find it after a few minutes, contact support@cloudforecast.io.