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ParkMyCloud Review
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and helpful in situations where you have on-demand AWS instances. Can save quite a bit of money in the long run.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not very useful if you have reserved instances like we do.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Nothing yet but in the future we will apply PMC to on-demand instances to save money on evening and weekends or as needed.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you have all reserved instances on Amazon AWS this might not be the solution for you.
Excellent service, does just as advertised with many features to save on costs!
What do you like best about the product?
User-friendly UI that allows for quick searching and grouping of resources with sortability by price, region and teams! The SSO integration is seamless and easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
Integration with Azure VMSS' are a little bit wonky at first and may fail. The scheduler seems to have no Crash loop Backoff logic to stop pinging when a VMSS fails to scale down. I wish it was easier to bootstrap Azure cloud integration without going through twenty steps, a terraform module would be ideal.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're solving the inability of EKS and AKS node groups / node pools to be scaled to zero for very expensive machine types (GPUS). We've realized that a cronjob has led us to literally hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Read through the documentation and take the time to group resources together to save time and hassles.
Quick and easy
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and share with colleagues, create resource groups
What do you dislike about the product?
Cannot park elasticache which renders it nearly useless for me on current project
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Solving cost problems
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.
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
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.
Very Useful
What do you like best about the product?
Allows our team to save time and operational costs through automation. The SSO feature is a godsend, and was really the feature that helped our team decide to adapt this product.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far it's been ideal, can't think of anything substancial that I did not like. Even the UI is easy and unique.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helping to reduce costs on multiple cloud resources.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Rather than spend time creating scripts and functions to start and stop our EC2 instances, we can open the ParkMyCloud application and set the schedule for the instance. Do the 14 day eval, you'll be a customer after that period.
Stretching the cloud dollar.
What do you like best about the product?
Parking cloud instances on a schedule or when not in use (outside of business hours).
What do you dislike about the product?
Needs the ability to exclude instances by tag or to exclude instances from the service (i.e. don't pay for always on instances).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I can launch larger instances with better resources by utilizing the savings from not having them run all the time.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you have non-production instances in the cloud that are only used during business hours or for occasional testing/dev work you are wasting money if you don't use ParkMyCloud.
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