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Easy to Use Interface and Affordable
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use interface. When you open the ParkMyCloud application you can set a schedule for the specific instance that you want running and for whatever timeframe you want. Short/Long, it is all customizable. Our team was spending a lot of time updating and creating scripts and functions to start and end our various instances. It was a lot of wasted time. With PMC, you can label your instances which means that anyone and everyone within the company can manage the schedule for all of the cloud servers being used.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the charges for the instances that our team created whether in use or not were often a topic when our finance team was involved. Which meant that someone may need to create special IAM permissions to limit the instances it bills on. One of the other issues I have heard is that the projected versus the actual savings is off due to various costs, and that is not considering the cost increases if the instance includes SQL licensing. I never saw this issue, but apparently you cannot forcibly shut down an instance on errors, although that problem is solved by AWS console which supports this by issuing two shutdown commands.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helped us save money with recommended on/off schedules, which are automatically created based on resource usage data. It was very easy for us to accept and apply those recommendations and start reducing our costs. We found that 7 out of 8 environments could be completely turned off for at least 12 hours per day. Some of our resources are customer-facing production accounts and they need to stay on 24×7, we also implemented those schedules and applied the other 80% elsewhere.
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Experience in using Park My Cloud
What do you like best about the product?
I like the most in the website that I can schedule the shutdown and restart activity of n number of VMs in a single group.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike the contact support team. I tried to contact the park my cloud support team but wasnot able to contact them, I faced issues like when i click on contact support, it was showing me that my credentials were invalid, i tried many times but still can't reach the support team of park my cloud.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problem of shutting down and restarting the VMs manually was solved by using the schedule system of park cloud. The benefit I received was to schedule a maintainence for a fixed timing which will automatically occur at the scheduling given every day. It reduces our manual efforts.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Its a good tool to use to reduce your manual efforts on scheduling any maintainence of restart or shutdown activity of your virtual machines.
Significant savings achieved with minimal effort.
What do you like best about the product?
We have been able to design custom schedules for unusual usage patterns, as well as the simple 9-5 cases. We also often make use of the easy 'temporary wake' functionality where we can wake something up from being parked temporarily whilst someone makes use of it, without having to remember to park it again afterwards. Previously people may have launched resources for a temporary use case and then forgotten to switch them off again, incurring significant costs. The site is also easy to use, making it easy to understand what a resource schedule covers and to see what is online at a given point in time. New users have gotten up to speed easily.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would probably like to see savings in my own currency. Although I'm billed in US dollars, it don't think in dollars. Some if the icons could probably do with tooltips too, to make them a bit easier to understand for new users. It would be useful to have month long cost projections against individual resources, as well as just the run rate for that resource.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We previously had lots of idle EC2 instances costing us a lot of money when they were not in use at night time or the weekends. Particularly development resources where the developers are only working office hours during Monday to Friday. We have saved tens of thousands of dollars by shutting down these resources at night without any loss of productivity.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
give it a trial and see how you get on, it will probably pay for itself before too long.
simple and usefull
What do you like best about the product?
power management / cost reduction / flexibility
What do you dislike about the product?
Release which could has impact on production
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
saving 5k euros by months
Recommendations to others considering the product:
More GCP features
Excellent Product
What do you like best about the product?
helps the Recommendation and saving bucks
What do you dislike about the product?
GUI has to increase more with option in Activity logs
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cost saving
One of the most useful tools for AWS
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use
Easy to install good support and hudge economies
Easy to install good support and hudge economies
What do you dislike about the product?
The user interface is a bit old school, could be a bit rebranded
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The management of the different environment, ( dev staging production) and the start stop of instance for developers
"Turbonomic" - Saves Time And Give Best Results
What do you like best about the product?
The product Turbonomic is based on AI technology. It is a cloud based system that is helping the employees and their data in real time. It seems very helpful to the employees to reduce their manual work a lot and infrastructure resources get optimized. The customer service of Turbonomic is brilliant.
What do you dislike about the product?
I do not found anything to dislike yet in this product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is a cloud based system that is helping the employees and their data in real time. It seems very helpful to the employees to reduce their manual work a lot and infrastructure resources get optimized. It is very easy to use this product.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try this product. This is nice!
ParkMyCloud- Nextgen cloud optimization tool!!!
What do you like best about the product?
Firstly I need to mention Parkmycloud's UI which has a fabulous flow and is perfectly designed to manage my multi-cloud accounts ( AWS & Azure ). Also, It has the SSO feature for secure authentication.
The one feature that attracted me was the automation around the instances that can be managed from the PrakMyCloud console-like scheduled Power ON & OFF.
ParkMyCloud's Cost and Utilization insights give me details on unused resources, provide recommendations, and ensures budgets are met.
Another highlight about the tool is the dashboard and visualization functions which show my all cloud account usage, right-sizing recommendations, and utilization reports. User management becomes really simple as we can assign respective roles and permissions for each user and restrict the access, all importing the bulk users is really helpful.
The one feature that attracted me was the automation around the instances that can be managed from the PrakMyCloud console-like scheduled Power ON & OFF.
ParkMyCloud's Cost and Utilization insights give me details on unused resources, provide recommendations, and ensures budgets are met.
Another highlight about the tool is the dashboard and visualization functions which show my all cloud account usage, right-sizing recommendations, and utilization reports. User management becomes really simple as we can assign respective roles and permissions for each user and restrict the access, all importing the bulk users is really helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
As of now, I feel the tool is restricted only towards VM's and Databases it would be really great if ParkMyCloud can also integrate with other services like Aurora, Redshift & EMR like resources, waiting for these additional features to be released very soon! There should be an option to write our custom scripts to monitor the resources matrices, also integrate multi-factor authentication.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
On a daily basis, we handle multiple accounts for various customers and few of them are multi-cloud accounts, as part of the review process and audits it becomes a tedious scenario with a tool like Parkmycloud I & team are validating all the accounts in a one-stop solution.
By using the polices based on tagging feature on the console we are able to categorize all the workloads and visualize the utilization on the dashboard which can be exported for our records.
By using the polices based on tagging feature on the console we are able to categorize all the workloads and visualize the utilization on the dashboard which can be exported for our records.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If anyone looking for a right cost optimization tool, here its go ahead with ParkMyCloud
Great tool ParkMyCloud
What do you like best about the product?
The simplicity of administration helped me saving a lot of time and operational costs. Ec2 smart scheduling and rightsizing is a great feature.
With bulk user import/export via CSV makes user management effortless.
With bulk user import/export via CSV makes user management effortless.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is no dislike as such but we are expecting python libraries so that we can use API functionality more immersively and reduce few lines of code for creating tailored automation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reduced time and operational cost.
Good tooling to save money on AWS instances by easily scheduling their shutdown out of hours
What do you like best about the product?
Simple to use, does one thing and does it well. Good team integration and assignments. Admins can configure schedules which users can then choose for instances
What do you dislike about the product?
Feels a but unnecessary - charging model is per instance and can't help but I think AWS just needs slightly better tooling and would make this redundant. I've seen amazon do this with other companies - like people create a business around a gap in the aws offering but then amazon implement the feature themselves and release it overnight. So that's something to be wary of I suppose - park my cloud is a useful niche at the moment but for how long will that continue to be the case. There are also a lot of alternatives - do it yourself with the existing scheduling tools, or build your own scripts / templates, or use the different amazon pricing options that can save money instead i suppose. Lots of options!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Has helped reduce our instance usage, especially in combination with spot instances. I'm unsure of the benefits versus reserve instances or the new credits system AWS has - plus the downside of spot instances is that they aren't always available. But it works pretty well for us and I'm sure the guys who chose the system are convinced of the benefits. The pricing is per instance with park my cloud so you need to take that into account of course
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider all the other options - do it yourself with the existing scheduling tools, or build your own scripts / templates, or use the different amazon pricing options that can save money instead i suppose
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