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CastAi Review
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use UI. Consolidation of things at one place. Good cost savings and hibernation concept is really good.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some machine types are not supported. So, we need to select different machine types for our products. Build an overall platform not for just gcp but include other future of cloud as well such as db optimisations etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our costs have reduced significantly. Support is good, we get the response pretty fast if something goes wrong.
CAST AI Tool review
What do you like best about the product?
CAST AI helps organizations in managing cloud resources and optimizing the costing part with high availability at low cost . Their consulting team is very dependable and are available anytime almost.
Integration to CAST AI is super easy and we have connect our cluster to CAST AI tool and using node templates and resource allocation the machine type and resources were scheduled to the pods in the Google Kubernetes Engine cluster.Even we can define the region where to spawn our pods.
We used terraform script to connect our clusters to CAST AI tools.The CAST AI team is very helpful in the integration part by providing the documentation to connect our cluster to CAST AI.
Integration to CAST AI is super easy and we have connect our cluster to CAST AI tool and using node templates and resource allocation the machine type and resources were scheduled to the pods in the Google Kubernetes Engine cluster.Even we can define the region where to spawn our pods.
We used terraform script to connect our clusters to CAST AI tools.The CAST AI team is very helpful in the integration part by providing the documentation to connect our cluster to CAST AI.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes there are some issues that popup like machine types that might not supported by apps we provisioned by CAST AI tool which really annoys me.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CAST AI helps us in reducing the costing part for cloud resource maintenance and they also helps us to rightsize the workloads in gke
Amazing service that save a lot of unnecessary cloud expense
What do you like best about the product?
The support engineers and it's easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI can be improved and reports also.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Instead of checking how much resources do I need on any point of time, CastAI adjust it automatically by VPA and HPA which lead to select the optimal compute family according to usage, this save us a lot of cost.
Simple to get going, fast and dedicated support will get you fully optimized
What do you like best about the product?
Simple configuration to get going, user friendly interface. You get a safe way to test out the features in a "view" mode before committing to your purchase, and you can activate feature by feature easily.
Deep customization using kubernets primitives and you can tune how aggressive the rebalancer is.
Dedicated support monitors your clusters metrics and utilization, and they let you know if you should consider rebalancing certain nodes, very quick reponse time and they are quick to find solutions if you run into problems.
Deep customization using kubernets primitives and you can tune how aggressive the rebalancer is.
Dedicated support monitors your clusters metrics and utilization, and they let you know if you should consider rebalancing certain nodes, very quick reponse time and they are quick to find solutions if you run into problems.
What do you dislike about the product?
still needs work on custom replica sets, for example ones controlled by Strimzi Kafka and ArangoDB.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping costs down while still scaling based on the needs of the cluster.
The CAST Ai Technology and Team are outstanding.
What do you like best about the product?
The CAST AI Team and ease of implementation.
What do you dislike about the product?
The lack of being able to use the CAST console reflects actual cloud cost (after discounts) vs public on-demand costs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CAST AI is enabling us to reduce our cloud waste and cost and become more stable and efficient overall.
Cast.AI: Innovative savings automation meets outstanding support
What do you like best about the product?
Cast.AI's cloud cost automation offers a robust solution for resource optimization through its innovative technology, significantly alleviating the burden on DevOps teams. As it integrates seamlessly into our Kubernetes clusters, it has become a critical component of our infrastructure. Without the solid support from Cast.AI, the integration process could have been risky and complex.
What truly sets Cast.AI apart is how it simplifies onboarding and ensures that users can effectively utilize all features. The support team is always prompt and effective, providing the necessary guidance to navigate the complexities of the tool. This level of assistance instills confidence in both the platform and the dedicated professionals behind it.
What truly sets Cast.AI apart is how it simplifies onboarding and ensures that users can effectively utilize all features. The support team is always prompt and effective, providing the necessary guidance to navigate the complexities of the tool. This level of assistance instills confidence in both the platform and the dedicated professionals behind it.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have no significant complaints about Cast.AI; any issues encountered during our integration journey have been promptly resolved by the support team or even directly by the developers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reduce resource waste and lowering overall cost of our cloud infrastructure
Seamless Cloud Cost Optimization with CAST AI
What do you like best about the product?
CAST AI has delivered immediate cost savings and simplified our Kubernetes management. The support team was exceptional during the integration process, ensuring a seamless and successful integration into our existing infrastructure. The security dashboard provides a lot of insightful info; yet I need to enable it in my clusters.
The good thing is that even when we're using CAST AI, we can still have the backup option of using the regular cluster-autoscaler.
The good thing is that even when we're using CAST AI, we can still have the backup option of using the regular cluster-autoscaler.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Terraform documentation lacks details on how to configure the different components; but the support team is there to help you out. Also, it takes time to get used to how to troubleshoot errors you might face during the setup.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Cloud cost reduction
- Cluster autoscaling
- Efficient resource utilization
- Cluster autoscaling
- Efficient resource utilization
A Kubernetes automation platform that helped us save on the cloud using Spot instances
What do you like best about the product?
-the interface is fairly clear and intelligible. The main options are available in the interface, making it easy to use the product.
- really effective for optimising costs, particularly with the use of Spots and the integration of advanced features (spot fail back, mixed instance type, etc.)
-Easy integration supporting Iac Tools like Terraform.
-Really good support from the Team.
- really effective for optimising costs, particularly with the use of Spots and the integration of advanced features (spot fail back, mixed instance type, etc.)
-Easy integration supporting Iac Tools like Terraform.
-Really good support from the Team.
What do you dislike about the product?
-The gains shown are not based on actual Azure costs, so they are slightly different.
-Quota management could be improved. You discover that your quotas are not good after rebalancing. It would be smart to warn you beforehand. This could be done easily with IAM read permissions on the Quota part.
- Workload autoscaler on daemonset and statefulset. This functionality should be available very soon
-Quota management could be improved. You discover that your quotas are not good after rebalancing. It would be smart to warn you beforehand. This could be done easily with IAM read permissions on the Quota part.
- Workload autoscaler on daemonset and statefulset. This functionality should be available very soon
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We wanted a reliable, dedicated solution for optimising workloads on AKS clusters. Cast doesn't spread itself too thinly over a host of features, but concentrates on optimisation (gain + security) and does it quite well.
We didn't want to spend a lot of time administering AKS clusters in the optimisation part.
We also wanted to know quite precisely how the costs were distributed within the clusters on different projects.
Instead of developing processes or solutions ourselves, we rely on expertise and premium support. Which is a considerable gain for us
We didn't want to spend a lot of time administering AKS clusters in the optimisation part.
We also wanted to know quite precisely how the costs were distributed within the clusters on different projects.
Instead of developing processes or solutions ourselves, we rely on expertise and premium support. Which is a considerable gain for us
Excellent free and paid tiers providing quick value
What do you like best about the product?
Cast AI gives immediate insights into the costs of Kubernetes when GCP provides murky overviews. This gave me a clear action plan on how to help reduce the cost of compute on GCP, both using cast.ai autoscaling features and basic Kubernetes features.
The security platform was helpful in detecting critical errors and helping with a SOC2 audit.
The security platform was helpful in detecting critical errors and helping with a SOC2 audit.
What do you dislike about the product?
The setup to connect a cluster using helm and not just the automated script would be helpful for clients managing their Kubernetes clusters with tools like Helm and argo-cd.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cast.ai's autoscaler is more feature-rich and customizable than GKE's autoscaler. This allowed for more rapid scaling up and down for more cost savings.
Cloud cost management helped me understand the per-cluster cost and which cluster to target first based on overall cost and over-provisioning.
Cloud cost management helped me understand the per-cluster cost and which cluster to target first based on overall cost and over-provisioning.
Cast AI review
What do you like best about the product?
The bes feature about CAST AI is the way the present the information the views are really intuitive.
What do you dislike about the product?
We can not see the savings that we currently have.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CAST AI is giving us the actual costs that we have currently in all our clusters.
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