Navigating AWS Costs with Ease: nOps is Our Secret Weapon
Almost two years ago, we started using the nOps Cloud Optimization Platform to manage and optimize costs across our half a dozen AWS accounts, and I couldn't be more impressed! From the very beginning, nOps guided me through a smooth setup process in our master organization account, making it incredibly easy to get started. Their team was instrumental in helping me adjust the global Service Control Policies, ensuring that the nOps platform had the necessary access to work its magic in each of our accounts and their respective regions.
What truly stood out was their commitment to our success. They scheduled regular follow-up meetings to address one-on-one questions and to showcase new features, which really helped us understand the platform's capabilities. Thanks to nOps, we are now saving thousands of dollars in AWS costs each month, all without having to navigate the complex jungle of "Reserved Instances" or "Cost Savings Plans" ourselves.
Even though we are only utilizing a fraction of the features available at the moment, I can wholeheartedly recommend the nOps platform to anyone managing large AWS loads and numerous resources. It's a game-changer for cost optimization!
nOps Excellent cost savings
We implemented nOps for our dedicated instances and are loving the monthly cost savings. Excellent team and easy to implement.
Amazing Support
The nOps team has been very active and supportive in our journey to reduce our cloud bills. They reached out to us immediately once they noticed that some of our reserved ec2 instances were not being used. This was amazing since we didn't need to raise any alarms and they walked us through the process of getting things running as expected once again.
Simplifies AWS cost savings
We use nOPS to automatically manage our AWS Reserved instances, savings plans, and identify additional savings opportunities. We would definitely recommend nOPS to anyone that is interested in AWS Reserved instances, but doesn't have the time to manage them. nOPS automatically purchases the required reserved instances and will sell any unused reserved instances without having to worry about long term commitments.
Strong support and finOps Solution
I have been using nOps Compute Co-Pilot for several months, and it has significantly optimized our AWS EC2 costs. The platform's ability to continuously manage, scale, and optimize our compute resources ensures we're always getting the best deals. One standout feature is their 100% commitment utilization guarantee, where they provide credits for any unused Reserved Instances (RIs) they've recommended, adding an extra layer of financial assurance.
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However, it's worth noting that some of the more advanced reporting features are part of an additional service. Without subscribing to this, the reporting capabilities can feel limited. Despite this, the core functionalities offer substantial value.
Overall, I highly recommend nOps as a FinOps partner for organizations looking to optimize their AWS expenditures.
I wanted to like them, but poor security
The product idea is great and I was looking forward to working with them, but the IAM permissions they require are far too permissive and they wouldn't work with me to come up with a least-privilege permission set. They are violating the AWS Well Architected Framework recommendations. They want you to add the ReadOnlyAccess policy (which is too permissive) and then add explicit Denies to counteract the permissiveness. This is not a good approach as ReadOnlyAccess is managed by AWS and changes occasionally as new products and features are released. If you don't actively monitor this, you will end up inadvertently give nOps too much access to your accounts. nOps should fix this by issuing an IAM policy that has explicit grants for all the permissions it needs rather. This is necessary in order to be taken seriously given how much access nOps needs on an account.
Great team; product is excellent
nOps is an excellent cloud optimization platform! It saved us significant costs on AWS, provided a seamless onboarding process, and gave a detailed tour of advanced features. A great tool to enhance our DevOps services at Dom & Tom. Highly recommended!
Effective insights into our AWS infrastructure
We have recently started using nOps to get insight into our AWS infrastructure as part of updating our Well-Architected Review process with AWS. We've found the tools in nOps are easily able to find resources that are unused (particularly important in the development environment) and can show us where we can improve our posture related to the WAR.
As a company, we found nOps really easy and quick to work with, and setting the integration up was a snap.
Amazing tool to adhere to the well-architected framework
Nops is an excellent tool. It helped us a lot to discover through its continuous monitoring how to adhere to the well-architected framework. With an excellent interface that makes it easy to adopt security, cost, and compliance standards.
A no brainer for anyone...highly recommend...
The team as nOps made onboarding a seamless experience for us and immediately provided real benefits in helping us to better understand the spending on our account. The extra value add of their technical team is just icing on the cake. I recommend them for all AWS users.