nOps - Cloud Optimization Platform

My main use case for nOps  is managing AWS  savings plans, and it also optimizes our Kubernetes  infrastructure to reduce the number of EC2  instances we need to run.

I find it to be a valuable cost-savings tool. Its best features include several things: first, it is hands-off, so I can set it and forget it. I get it set up, and it manages AWS  savings plans on my behalf. This frees my team up to work on more valuable work without losing out on valuable discounts.

It also provides a dashboard with more detailed insights into cost and AWS cloud costs than what comes out of the box with AWS Cost Explorer .

Third, the nOps  Kubernetes  agent automatically resizes pods based on usage, which allows us to run significantly fewer EC2  instances than we would otherwise. nOps has positively impacted my organization by saving both time and money.

I do not think there are any improvements needed; we are overall happy with the product. nOps does the job we need just fine.

I have been using nOps for about three years.

nOps is stable.

Its scalability is good; it has scaled to meet our needs.

The nOps team has been a pleasure to work with; they are quick with their response and always available to help out. My customer support experience has been excellent; I have had positive experiences.

Positive

We did not previously use a different solution.

It was easy to deploy nOps in my environment. My experience with the configuration process was straightforward; nothing tricky occurred.

nOps integrates well with other AWS services I use, though it integrates as a cost-savings and reporting tool only; it integrates very well at what it does.

My experience with the procurement process was easy; it sets up right through the AWS Marketplace , and it bills back automatically based on usage.

I have seen a return on investment; I save roughly $2,000 a month in money saved, and I have saved time as well.

The metering and billing experience is fair; they charge based on a percentage of what we save, so in any scenario where we pay them, we are already saving money. My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was both fair and transparent.

I evaluated other options before choosing nOps, but I cannot remember which ones; it was years ago.

My advice for others looking into using nOps is to use it. I give this review a rating of 5.

Public Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

What do you like best about the product?

To start, We've had nOps for almost two years, and it instantly saved our organization several thousand dollars a month, while we strategically implemented longer term cost saving items and architectures. It saves you money 'now' - and gives you better visibility across your entire AWS Organization. Giving nOps the reigns to savings plans and node selection gave me and my team time to focus on core architectual cost saving strategies, but still save money in the process.

What do you dislike about the product?

There have been bumps - a few mis-sized instances, or heavy handed automations. These were quickly acknowledged and addressed by nOps. While not ideal in operations, the service and communication gave me ease and understanding.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Savings plan delegation - No more managing what savings plans are expiring when.
Node selection automation - Allowing nOps to Choose the right cost/performance balanced nodes.
Future - Container right sizing, for optimizing container and EKS efficiency.

What do you like best about the product?

They are very transparent and are truly commited to saving you money. Integration is straightforward, and their dashboard is useful. Their customer support is quick to respond, knowledgeable, and they exceeded my expectations in how they solved my issues.

What do you dislike about the product?

Certain pages of their documentation could be a little clearer, but it is not out of the industry norm from my experience.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

They handled cost cutting so that our resources can focus on other endeavors.

My use case was AWS  cost optimization.

nOps  smoothly integrated with our AWS  infrastructure and achieved significant savings without much intervention from our internal team. This allowed the team to focus on our priorities, while the nOps  platform takes care of Spot  Instances, Reserved Instances, and Savings Plans.

Smooth integration and the minimal effort needed to implement and maintain the system is the greatest value for us. We are able to achieve forecasted savings without the need to spend much time within the system.

The system works as expected, within the limitations of AWS itself. They just refreshed the UI and added even more options to the product, but for our use case, we are fine.

From the features, I would like to see RDS  RIs and maybe better visibility on how the engine is deciding whether to use spot or on demand, to replace the instance or not

I have been using the solution for one year.

We managed cost optimization internally, but the next big switch was to implement Spot  Instances. Instead of reinventing the wheel and going through all the starter hurdles, we asked nOps for help, and this turned out to be a good decision.

I believe the pricing is fair.

We did evaluate some other options, but the nOps option was very transparent, provided guarantees, and the projections looked good. We were also impressed with the technical approach and the way they designed it to leverage native AWS mechanisms to provide any possible failure recovery, so we feel very safe using it.

We thought about implementing Spot internally, but with the ease of implementation through nOps and the pricing, it would probably end up costing more than using the platform.

Public Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

What do you like best about the product?

It was an easy process to integrate into our AWS environment. They also have excellent reporting and the cost savings have been tremendous.

What do you dislike about the product?

I haven't found anything at this point to complain about.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It reduces the monthly costs associated with dedicated instances.