What do you like best about the product?

ProsperOps has a fairly simple one-time setup, after which we've seen monthly savings with no attention required on our part. I get an email each month highlighting the thousands of dollars saved by using their service. There is also a web dashboard to review how savings are calculated in great detail.

Cost optimization of EC2 instances on AWS can be a complex and time-consuming process. ProsperOps has devised an AWS-approved way to automate most of this and get those discounts without ongoing attention or effort.

The onboarding team at ProsperOps was also extremely helpful - they answered our questions thoroughly and did a lot of the heavy lifting to get the product set up on our AWS accounts.

What do you dislike about the product?

When ProsperOps first explained how they achieve their savings, it sounds like they are exploiting a loophole in AWS's pricing structure. However, it appears that AWS approves this method and expects it to be used.

Beyond that, we have not had any reason to dislike this service!

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

On-Demand EC2 instances are easy to deploy, but they are also the most expensive. Taking advantage of reserved instances saves a lot of money, but requires long-term commitments and ongoing attention from developers. Other methods of saving money on EC2 instances are also complex and require close attention.

ProsperOps solves this by automating the application of cost-saving mechanisms to reduce the cost of EC2 instances. As a result, we benefit from cost savings without having to commit time and resources to thinking about reserved instances or other savings strategies.