Control Plane Platform

What do you like best about the product?

What I value most is how easy it is to manage our infrastructure. We don’t have a dedicated platform engineer, and Control Plane helps us keep our headcount down while still staying on top of things. I also appreciate the updates that introduce new, important features. Overall, it’s straightforward for technical folks to get up and running with.

What do you dislike about the product?

At times, the interface can make it harder to access certain features. I understand it’s necessary to support a rich feature set, but the added complexity can still slow things down when I’m trying to move quickly.

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

It’s easy to scale as we grow. With auto-scaling, we can set clear thresholds and not have to worry about whether our infrastructure will handle high-usage periods followed by low-usage periods. It saves money and gives us real peace of mind.

What do you like best about the product?

We have been using Control Plane for four years and have seen it grow and evolve quite a bit during that time. The first thing that stands out is their support. Whenever we have had an issue, they have been very quick to respond and help us get it resolved.

We also enjoy the cost savings we get whether using a single cloud provider or multiple cloud providers.

Their Cloud Wormhole technology has also been very useful for us. It allows us to securely access databases and other resources across one or more cloud providers without having to expose those resources publicly.

What do you dislike about the product?

There is not much we dislike about Control Plane. After using it for four years, we have not run into any significant drawbacks or tradeoffs that stand out. When we have encountered problems, their team has been quick to address and resolve them.

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

The biggest problem Control Plane solves for us is cost. We are able to save on our cloud infrastructure costs while still having the flexibility to use one or multiple cloud providers.

What do you like best about the product?

The platform provides the flexibility and resilience of Kubernetes with ease of management via the console, as well as unprecedented visibility into cost, usage, performance and resilience.

The support team are response and engage quickly, and are very willing to dive into the technical detail, even going so far as to assist with updates to automations.

The platform provides several templates for hosting well know platforms including Postgres, Kafka, MongoDb, etc.

Connecting these services in a secured and structured way is well organized and boils down to configuration and automation with helm charts.

The pricing of services and usage is well understood and reasonable, and configuring services according to budget is very easy to manage and observe.

We have tested some of the AI MCP capabilities, but not extensively at this stage, as we would like to maintain control while we establish a controlled environment.

What do you dislike about the product?

At this stage there are no obvious downsides from based on the capabilities that we have used, aside from the AI tooling which we have not used extensively as yet.

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

The platform provides an managed hosting capability which minimizes the operational burden on our team. We do not have a large team, and we would like to keep it that way, so we lean into automation to help us scale.

This approach fits well with the choice of ControlPlane, where we have the flexibility to build solutions with a myriad of integrations, without the burden of managing infrastructure.

What do you like best about the product?

I do enjoy the Terraform integration with Control Plane, as it provides direct infrastructure as code integration, which is the reason I chose it over competitors like Railway. I also appreciate the MCP for debugging stuff. Additionally, the initial setup was extremely easy, making the onboarding process smooth.

What do you dislike about the product?

I find logging challenging to get right or sift through.

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

Control Plane simplifies the complexity of our infrastructure by handling containers without images or networking. I chose it for its direct infrastructure-as-code integration, especially appreciating the Terraform integration and MCP for debugging.

What do you like best about the product?

I like that Control Plane makes it very easy for us to have multi-regional, scaled deployments for infrastructure within in our own managed AWS account. We were able to achieve mostly automated infrastructure deployments in a much shorter period of time than we could have managed alone. Additionally, the support team is responsive, competent, and patient. I liked that they didn't charge us a lot upfront, making it easy to get started and experiment with their tool. It was important for us to have control over our infrastructure, and Control Plane allows us to maintain that ownership while enabling rapid modernization.

What do you dislike about the product?

There were definitely some road bumps in the beginning with Control Plane, which I can attribute to us being one of their first customers. While the initial experience with setting up was a bit tough, I think the Control Plane team has worked hard to make it a smoother experience now.

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

We are a small team with no dedicated infrastructure engineers. ControlPlane helps us achieve the mature infrastructure that we need as a healthcare and regulated medical device product without the time and effort.

What do you like best about the product?

I love the flexibility and support. Great product and great team! It also reduces complexity compared to competitors.

What do you dislike about the product?

There's been a few issues here and there, but the team is so responsive and resolves blockers quickly.

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

It allows us to run on any cloud providers and gives us redundancy without being overly complex and expensive.

What do you like best about the product?

ControlPlane has simplified our entire workload deployment process. ControlPlane also helped us reduce costs and made cost management much easier overall.

What do you dislike about the product?

Not much. We had some performance issues when using the connection agent with high frequency database connections, but we could work around the problem.

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

In AWS deployments, management of workloads and management of users, access and permissions is complicated. ControlPlane simplifies it.

What do you like best about the product?

It has significantly simplified our infrastructure, letting us spend more time building instead of doing DevOps. Support has also been great, both in the onboarding phase, and during normal operations.

What do you dislike about the product?

I struggled a bit to combine our Prometheus metrics from our application with metrics coming from other infrastructure, like serverless compute.

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

It manages everything related to k8s for us, so we can focus on building software instead of spending time managing the platform.

What do you like best about the product?

It's fast. Working with different clouds and Support is perfect.

What do you dislike about the product?

Product covers all our requirements and allow us to deploy fast and without headache

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

Fast, secure, multicloud deployment for reasonable costs.

What do you like best about the product?

Control Plane gives us the flexibility we need without compromising speed or resiliency. It helped us achieve a six-nines SLA, which is huge for us. Support is stellar when we need it and the pricing is fair. Amazing solution for us.

What do you dislike about the product?

I don't have anything that I dislike about control plane

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

Control Plane solves the infrastructure complexity behind running reliable workloads at scale, especially across multiple clouds. We get the resilience of a multi-cloud setup without having to build and maintain all the orchestration ourselves. Less vendor lock-in, easier failover and no massive operational mess when a provider or region has issues.

It also gives us a lot more flexibility around where workloads run and how they scale. We can optimise for performance, availability or cost depending on the workload, and react quickly when demand changes. That helps us cut infrastructure spend and avoids needing a large platform team just to manage cloud plumbing.

In practice, we get better reliability and scalability, while the engineering team spends more time building the product instead of maintaining infrastructure.