FinOps practice has transformed cloud cost visibility and delivers consistent spend optimization
What is our primary use case?
I use
CloudCheckr mostly for cloud cost visibility and compliance monitoring, and on a normal day, I would check into it and review the cost summary dashboard, check spend anomalies, and see which accounts or services have deviated from any set forecast. That is how I usually work for my clients.
Overall, I think it is a great thing having a FinOps toolkit and compliance dashboard, especially for me since I am a FinOps certified practitioner by the FinOps Foundation. From that background, using these tools is a really great way to implement those practices and also help our potential clients.
I use CloudCheckr on public cloud only, and I usually use it on AWS, most of the time on AWS and sometimes on Azure.
What is most valuable?
I think CloudCheckr also helps track unused or underutilized resources and reviewing any further insights on which quick actions need to be taken to optimize the spend and maintain compliance.
Another thing is the cost optimization recommendations, which are probably my favorite. They are actionable and easy to implement, and I also like how it can automatically generate reports. It also allows multi-account management, and the view for multi-account management is excellent, in my opinion.
It is the cost optimization tool, so it helps you get a detailed view of the entire cost structure, how the costs are rising, what all needs to be done to optimize the spend, and reduce any resource wastage. Overall, it has been really helpful for not only our organization but also for our clients by helping them optimize their cloud spends by nearly 20 to 30% on an average.
It combines cost, compliance, and governance into one platform across multiple clouds, and even across multiple cloud environments in some cases. It also provides better, deeper savings recommendations, and tagging enforcement, obviously automation of reports, which some of the native tools do not offer. That is why I think it is a really great tool.
What needs improvement?
Overall it is quite good, but adding a little more flexibility in building custom dashboards would be great, so you can export and customize and make the dashboards more powerful. That may be something which can be worked on, such as adding more flexibility to building those custom dashboards.
I think the AWS integration with CloudCheckr is good, but I think the Azure one is not that good, so there may be room for improvement there.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using CloudCheckr for roughly two years now for managing the cloud costs of my clients.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
CloudCheckr is quite stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
CloudCheckr is quite scalable, and we can add other accounts, even scale it across the different cloud service providers such as from AWS to Azure to GCP, and I think it is really good in terms of scalability.
How are customer service and support?
I never needed to reach out to customer support.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Previously we were using native cloud tools only, but as I mentioned earlier, the native cloud tools do not provide really good functionality, so there are many things missing. They do not provide cross-account visibility and do not provide other deeper insights of all the accounts and other enforcements and governance of the environments such as cost allocation. CloudCheckr provides a better picture of all the things, and it can also be used for multi-cloud environments.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We did evaluate other options. I think we evaluated a few other things such as CostIQ,
CloudHealth, and an IBM tool called
Cloudability. We analyzed those as well, but I think CloudCheckr was something which really stood out, and we really liked the interface and everything and the offerings it had. That is why we chose this.
What other advice do I have?
We did purchase CloudCheckr from the
AWS Marketplace.
Overall it was good, and the pricing is quite good based upon the usage costs and one-month contracts. I am not sure about the actual figures because that is handled by another team in our company, but I think the overall pricing is definitely good, and we definitely recommend it to some of our clients as well. You should definitely go for it.
I think we are good. I would be happy to discuss further. My overall rating of CloudCheckr is 10 out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloud optimization has become faster and saves several hours of weekly operational work
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for CloudCheckr is for cloud services, as we upload our data to cloud services.
What is most valuable?
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.
What needs improvement?
An area where CloudCheckr can be improved is pricing.
There are no other improvements needed for CloudCheckr that I haven't mentioned.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using CloudCheckr for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
CloudCheckr's scalability is fantastic.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support for CloudCheckr is fantastic.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I did not previously use a different solution before CloudCheckr.
How was the initial setup?
I purchased CloudCheckr through the AWS Marketplace.
CloudCheckr is deployed in my organization in a public cloud.
What about the implementation team?
My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
What was our ROI?
I have not yet seen a return on investment.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is fantastic.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing CloudCheckr, I did not evaluate other options.
What other advice do I have?
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.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Syncing files across devices made easy.
What do you like best about the product?
I really like that I could sync my files from my mobile phone to my laptop using CloudChecker CMx. It is not that costly as well compared to its competitors.
What do you dislike about the product?
The area that needs improvement is its navigation though. Not that user friendly if you are still new to it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mostly management of files and accessing them across devices as well as providing storage.
Cloud Managment
What do you like best about the product?
The user interface is the best and offers many features that support and helps in monitoring cloud consumption and resource allocation, etc.
It does have alerts systems, you can schedule alters for consumption daily or weekly, or monthly, and you can also receive notifications for health improvement of your Azure Environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
The alerts give a delay for 3 days consumption.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The user interface is the best and offers many features that support and helps in monitoring cloud consumption and resource allocation, etc.
It does have alerts systems, you can schedule alters for consumption daily or weekly, or monthly, and you can also receive notifications for health improvement of your Azure Environment.
cloudcheckr will help with cost-saving immediately
What do you like best about the product?
The most useful aspects of the cloudcheckr app are the cost savings recommendations, the compliance checker, and the best practices recommendations. We have a small shop, and the recommendations do most of the heavy lifting for us. We were able to reduce our bill by 25% as well as become more compliant in regards to SOCII, ITIL, and others.
What do you dislike about the product?
The reporting (especially by tags) isn't as intuitive as it could be.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using cloudcheckr to insure that we are right-sized and that we are spending as little as possible on our infrastructure. Our bill has been reduced month-over-month by 25%.
