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Great UI and Overall Experience
What do you like best about the product?
The UI and experience are too good to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is amazing. I feel there is notging to dislike anything
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CAST AI eliminates cloud waste and operational toil by using real-time automation to rightsize Kubernetes workloads and manage Spot instances, cutting cloud bills by up to 60-80%.
For users, this means achieving peak application performance without manual scaling or overprovisioning, ultimately freeing DevOps teams to focus on innovation rather than infrastructure maintenance.
For users, this means achieving peak application performance without manual scaling or overprovisioning, ultimately freeing DevOps teams to focus on innovation rather than infrastructure maintenance.
Powerful node autoscaling and cost management, but may be tricky in complex setups
What do you like best about the product?
Wide and automated choice over node tiers, advanced options compared to basic autoscalers
What do you dislike about the product?
Not so easy to implement in a complex context, issues of idempotency of the TF resources
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
FinOps optimisation
Powerful Cost Monitoring with Intuitive Interface
What do you like best about the product?
I like how CAST AI calculates the cost on a daily basis and provides insightful financial granularity. This helps me catch spending spikes in real time and manage my services effectively to prevent bill shock. The new console UI is friendly and easy to use, which simplifies handling complex Kubernetes data. I love how it turns these complexities into a one-click executive dashboard for effortless FinOps management. Setting it up was very easy, even without much previous experience, making my transition to using CAST AI smooth and problem-free.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it's hard to believe in the product and the trustworthiness of the data it provides. More cost-accurate calculations are needed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use CAST AI for cost monitoring and cluster configuration. It helps me track high or low costs, manage services, stop bill shock with daily insights, and simplify Kubernetes data into an easy dashboard for FinOps management.
Efficient Autoscaling with Room for Improvement
What do you like best about the product?
I really like the node templates concept and bin packing feature of CAST AI. The rebalancing feature is also impressive. With node templates, I find it much more flexible compared to managing nodes via GCP nodepools, where we could only choose one machine type. The bin packing and rebalancing features help save us money. The initial setup of CAST AI was easy and straightforward.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think the Terraform modules need improvement. We have reported a bug. Bin packing and evictor need some improvement.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use CAST AI for cluster and workload autoscaling in production, mainly for cost-saving. It solves bin packing and allows flexibility with node templates and rebalancing features, which save us money.
Intuitive Dashboards, Easy Cost Optimization
What do you like best about the product?
I like CAST AI for Cost Monitoring and Analytics. I find the dashboards and UI really appealing. The cluster optimization agents are valuable tools that I use. The initial setup was easy peesy, which made getting started quite simple.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing i could think of
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use CAST AI for cost monitoring, understanding cost identity, and optimizing cost leakage.
Cost-Saving Automation with Robust Support
What do you like best about the product?
I really like the way CAST AI is designed because it aligns well with our company culture. Their support is also very helpful, which I appreciate. I find the AI support integration features beneficial for addressing simple questions and debugging scenarios. The ease of enabling features like vertical auto scaling and scheduling rebalancing is quite user-friendly. I also value the early access feature that allows us to hibernate our development and staging clusters during off hours, which is very helpful for us. And one big feature that helped us a lot was the ability to allocate a part of workload in to spot machines.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's definitely a learning curve to the platform, especially understanding the concepts and how it scales costs for you. Also, the billing aspect takes some time to understand. And some guarantees on the billing aspects (like if the cost reduction doesn't happen as expected) would reduce the initial inhibition of customers to adapt the system. For us personally another challenge was understanding how to measure cast AI's performance once we start using their system but also our own system starts growing. Actually there are indicators in the cast AI for this (like the cluster score, CPU & Memory over-provisioning percentage etc). Tracking these actually helps us understand if the cast AI's optimisations are as good as when we started. This could be documented as an indicator for cast AI's efficiency which will help the customers a lot.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use CAST AI mainly for cost optimizations and dev ops. It's successfully brought down our costs and helped with automation to optimize for cost and stability. Features like vertical auto scaling, rebalancing, splitting workload in to on-demand & spot machines and hibernation of clusters during off hours are very helpful.
A very effective tool for reducing costs on Kubernetes and optimizing resources
What do you like best about the product?
Easy installation and quick setup. I noticed a significant reduction in overprovisioning and cloud costs. Resource utilization is better, with fewer workloads lacking resources.
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning module does not yet allow for the definition of business days. Consequently, weekend activity can disproportionately influence resource calculations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows you to no longer have to perform a manual review of resources, which becomes humanly impossible on a large cluster. Bin packing helps reduce the number of nodes needed and, consequently, the bill.
Effortless Compute Management with Stellar Support
What do you like best about the product?
I find CAST AI easy to use and the dashboard is great as it provides a centralized view in one place. When we onboard a cluster, we can see cost trends, the node list, and spot on-demand options at a glance. I also appreciate that the CAST AI team is very supportive. They are ready to add custom features for specific needs like GPU and TPU support. Overall, I think it's a great team and a great product, and I'm very happy with it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features, like GCP sole tenant, are very basic and not customizable. They could improve on their Terraform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CAST AI optimizes compute allocation based on application usage and public cloud pricing. It provides a centralized dashboard showing cost trends and node lists, and the team supports custom features.
Cuts Cluster Costs with Super Support and Easy Helm Deployment
What do you like best about the product?
It reduces the cost of clusters and also there is super good support by the cast AI team. It's deployed easily to the cluster helm charts.
What do you dislike about the product?
Right now, the only thing that was an issue was onboarding user. No other comments
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Right now trying to resolve Streaming jobs
Cast AI’s Decision Engine & Automation Right-Sizing Are Standout Features
What do you like best about the product?
Decision Engine & Automation Right-Sizing is the best features by Cast AI
What do you dislike about the product?
Storage optimization, not support Cloud-native container (ECS, etc)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Over-provisioned Nodes & Pods on current organization. After using Cast AI, it can reduce number of Over-provisioned Nodes & Pods and direct impact to our Cloud Cost.
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