Spot.io Contract

My main use case is monitoring my cloud costs, security posture, and checking how my costs are aligning with actual activities and how they can be optimized on a day-to-day basis.

The main use case is around cost optimization, governance, and ensuring compliance is maintained. CloudCheckr  is used to identify idle resources, oversized instances, and opportunities for savings through right-sizing and reservations.

In my day-to-day work, most of my time is spent ensuring compliance and preventing overspending. Our costs are optimized properly, and the major use case involves identifying and ensuring that all finances are used effectively and efficiently while aligning with overall application needs and growth prospects.

CloudCheckr  is an excellent tool overall. The feature that stands out is how it enables cost savings and efficiency. The cost visibility and reporting are really valuable, and the dashboard is informative and enables good decision-making. The actionable recommendations are beneficial, such as the auto-generated suggestions for optimization. The built-in security and compliance checks, along with scheduled reports, save a lot of manual effort and keep both engineering and finance teams aligned.

CloudCheckr has been great and has helped solve problems by ensuring proper compliance. It does not just show data; it highlights actionable items for cost savings, security improvements, and compliance gaps. Scheduled reports are received on a regular basis according to defined schedules, providing more insights that can be shared with leadership and finance teams to ensure alignment. This results in a better picture where everyone is aligned and focused on growth while effectively and efficiently using financial resources.

CloudCheckr has enabled an average cost saving of approximately 25% from the last year, and this occurred while also increasing the scale of production. It has significantly reduced manual efforts that would otherwise be spent manually checking costs, tracking where spending is occurring, and verifying whether everything is properly optimized.

Some aspects could be made more customizable, such as the dashboard and UI. Some features may be too advanced and may have a learning curve, potentially lacking customization. Overall, CloudCheckr is a powerful and feature-rich tool with abundant metrics.

The primary suggestion would be to add more customization levels. Since the platform is very feature-rich, the UI may feel overwhelming sometimes. Fixing this would be beneficial. More customizable reports and configurations would be an improvement. The learning curve could be simplified, but once familiar with the tool, it is excellent.

I have been using CloudCheckr for two years.

CloudCheckr is quite scalable and can be scaled across multiple cloud environments and multiple accounts.

I would rate customer service as excellent. Sometimes support needs to be reached, but they are very responsive and supportive.

Negative

Before CloudCheckr, I relied on AWS  native tools only, such as Cost Explorer. I needed more granularity and in-depth cost analysis, which is why I switched to this solution. The goal also included extending to multi-cloud to some extent.

As shared earlier, there has been approximately a 25% decrease in optimized spending compared to roughly one year ago. Overall, the level of operations has increased with this solution. It has reduced manual efforts that would otherwise be spent checking where spending is occurring and ensuring all teams use resources correctly. This part has been eliminated and has saved significant effort while ensuring all teams remain aligned at all times.

The pricing and licensing are quite convenient. I am not certain about the exact costs involved because another team handles that aspect. Overall, the pricing was quite convenient and represented good value for money.

Other tools such as CloudHealth  and Apptio were assessed. They are good and quite strong, but CloudCheckr offered a better balance between cost, security, and compliance in one platform, which is why this solution was chosen.

CloudCheckr is quite good overall and does not need much improvement. Some aspects could be made more customizable, such as the dashboard and UI, and some features may be too advanced with a learning curve while lacking customization. Overall, CloudCheckr is a powerful and feature-rich tool with abundant metrics.

CloudCheckr is an excellent product and a solid cloud management platform that effectively combines cost optimization, security, and compliance. I definitely recommend it to organizations seeking in-depth cost analysis, cost optimization, management of multiple accounts, or maturity in cloud governance. I rate this product a 9 out of 10.

Public Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

My main use case for CloudCheckr  is for cloud services, as we upload our data to cloud services.

The best feature that CloudCheckr  offers, even though I don't use it very often, is that it is easy to use.

What makes CloudCheckr easy for me to use is its intuitive interface.

CloudCheckr has impacted my organization positively by making things easier and saving time, approximately three hours a week.

An area where CloudCheckr can be improved is pricing.

There are no other improvements needed for CloudCheckr that I haven't mentioned.

I have been using CloudCheckr for two years.

CloudCheckr is stable.

CloudCheckr's scalability is fantastic.

The customer support for CloudCheckr is fantastic.

I did not previously use a different solution before CloudCheckr.

I purchased CloudCheckr through the AWS Marketplace .

CloudCheckr is deployed in my organization in a public cloud.

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

I have not yet seen a return on investment.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is fantastic.

Before choosing CloudCheckr, I did not evaluate other options.

I would advise others looking into using CloudCheckr that it is a fantastic product. I give this product a rating of ten out of ten.

Public Cloud

Amazon Web Services  (AWS )

Neutral

What do you like best about the product?

Spot platform by NetApp enables us to assign mandatory tags on all deployed resources, which helps in cloud resource cost segregation quickly.

We can map our cloud infrastructure footprint under a single dashboard & utlize its recommendations to evaluate potential savings.

It provides comprehensive governance control to identify unneded resource deployments and carry out its decomissioning activities in our cloud environments.

What do you dislike about the product?

Since its resource analyzer is cloud-based utility backed up by a cloud provider & region, the availability of Spot instances may fluctuate & may affect the feasibility of cloud optimization strategies.

This is applicable to all service platforms that rely upon Cloud Service Provider (CSP), hence its not a major downside, looking at the overall cloud spend management.

By streamlining our workloads with Spot insights, we determine cost predictions & estimate resource expenditures based on historical data & changes in the anticipated workloads.

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

Spot platform effectively benefits us by allowing us to identify all underutilized & idle resources which can be terminated for saving resource expenditures.

We can conveniently tag critical resources which handle our priority workload, so that it can be monitored & won't be accidentally interrupted by other deployments.

It offers single pane of glass visibility on various metrics such as cost prediction, resource utilization, and cost trends which greatly helps with our cloud cost analysis.

Since it supports cross-organizational accounts from different CSP, we can quickly build a centralized overview dashboard for resource reclamation, instance optimization and cloud cost governance stategies.

We had not been evaluating the spending for our group. So we used CloudCheckr to evaluate what we had running and how much it cost to turn off what we did not need.

The solution is scalable for our purposes.

I found it less useful. My group took the data and organized it with Tableau. I used CloudCheckr to verify what I was seeing in Tableau. The solution must improve its user interface.

I have been using the solution for two weeks.

I did not see any instability. I rate the product’s stability a ten out of ten.

I rate the scalability an eight out of ten.

Tableau is more useful than CloudCheckr.

People wanting to use the solution must check the documentation and be prepared for a learning curve. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Private Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)