North Cloud

My main use case for North Cloud  is to reduce AWS  spend. A quick specific example of how I use North Cloud  to reduce AWS  spend is through discounted EC2  instances.

North Cloud has positively impacted my organization by reducing our AWS bill by 15%. This 15% reduction in my AWS bill has allowed us to increase our runway. I cannot share more about how increasing our runway has affected our business or operations.

I have found the integration very seamless and easy. The best features North Cloud offers are easy onboarding integration and a non-invasive business model.

I find the easy onboarding integration and non-invasive business model to be the best features because we were able to reduce spend on our AWS bill without using any internal employee hours and without worrying about any complicated account changes.

I think North Cloud could be improved with additional savings for more AWS services. I would like to see additional savings for RDS  and data transfer, as that would help my organization.

I have been using North Cloud for two years.

North Cloud is stable.

North Cloud's scalability is great.

The customer support is great.

I did not previously use a different solution.

Deploying North Cloud in my environment was easy. My experience with the configuration process took five minutes. The procurement process was easy.

My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

I have seen a return on investment, but I cannot give you metrics.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was very easy, very fast, and simple.

Before choosing North Cloud, I did not evaluate other options.

North Cloud integrates very well with other AWS services I use. I do not have any thoughts about the metering and billing experience. I would advise others looking into using North Cloud that it is easy to get set up with, so they should give it a shot. I found this interview faster and have no suggestions for change. I gave this review a rating of 5.

We use North Cloud  to identify cost savings that can be applied to our AWS  account.

North Cloud  has been a great partner in helping us navigate cloud cost savings.

The dashboard is really helpful in showing an overview snapshot of how our account is performing and the areas where we can take advantage of additional savings.

We have been using this solution for 8 months.

With our North Cloud account, we can take advantage of cost savings without committing to a contract, which makes it flexible for seasons when usage fluctuates.

The North Cloud team is very helpful and responsive when we have questions, and they do a great job at proactively reaching out to let us know of cost-saving opportunities.

The use case is Cost Management.

North has been an excellent partner in managing our AWS  costs.

North Cloud  procures Compute Savings Plans on our behalf, guided by a dashboard that highlights savings opportunities.

When we have oversubscribed on CSPs in one area, they proactively reach out with suggestions for reallocating those plans where they can do the most good.

North recently added support for database reservations, which would have been next on my wish list.

I look forward to their menu expanding as AWS  adds additional savings vehicles.

I have used the solution for 18 months.

This is our first cost management platform.

Our primary use case for North Cloud  was to take advantage of savings plans discounts from Amazon without being locked into long-term commitments or high upfront costs that would lower our velocity.

North Cloud  was able to get us access to savings plans that cut approximately 20% from our monthly AWS  costs. These savings plans were previously unavailable to us due to commitments that would lock us into specific server types for long periods of time. Due to changing load requirements, those savings plans were not viable for us with long-term commitments.

The most useful features have been the no-commitment savings plans access as well as the optimized environment impact interface. Getting an at-a-glance look at our carbon footprint from our AWS  resources is a good addition to the main goal of the product, which is the no-commitment savings plans.

The only features missing from North Cloud that I believe would be helpful are ones that AWS themselves have yet to offer. For example, more expansive RDS  / Database savings plans offerings. This isn't a limitation on the North side, as they were able to rapidly add support for the existing database savings plans offerings when they launched, but more of an AWS limitation.

We have been using the solution for 4 months.

We did not use a previous software tool for this functionality.

Leverage your AWS rep and convey to the North Team where your business is regarding stage and total engineering cost. They (North) will assist in making the plans work for your organization.

We evaluated a few other options, but their pricing structure and contract timings were not compatible with our organization.

The team is extremely helpful and communicative. Immediately upon working with them, they set up a Slack connect channel and give you a live line of communication with someone in their engineering team, sales team, and support team. Some organizations do this but then just mute the channel and ignore it. North Cloud is extremely reactive to any messages sent to this channel and even reaches out directly on Slack if something goes wrong with the savings plan, new features are launched, and to check how things are going. These are not worded or set up to sound like sales pitches but more like the organization and its individuals actually care about making sure you are being successful with their tool.