Spot.io Contract

We use the solution primarily to look at Azure consumption data for our clients.

The product gives some recommendations on how cost can be optimized based on usage. We take those recommendations and have discussions with our clients on what they can potentially do to achieve cost savings.

The dashboards were useful for visualizing where the cost and consumption are allocated. The recommendation section is pretty helpful. It provides an analysis of where cost and consumption can be adjusted.

We are not happy with the product’s reporting capabilities. We are planning to change the solution. The security compliance feature doesn’t give much data because CloudCheckr has done a majority of its development on AWS. The majority of our clients are on Microsoft Azure. There are a lot of features and information available for Amazon, but not for Azure. The tool wasn't meeting our expectations.

The reporting and analytic capabilities are very limited. There's no ability to do scheduled email reports. The report could only be sent to a single email address. The tool was not very usable. We had multiple clients and tasks to work with.

I have been using the solution for roughly two years.

I rate the tool’s stability an eight out of ten. We haven’t had any usability issues.

I rate the tool’s scalability an eight out of ten.

Initially, our experience with support was not that good. Eventually, there was a discussion with our account representative, and we got some additional support to help us through some of the issues we were having. It is easy to create and submit cases. It was also easy to get updates on cases. It's pretty simple.

The solution has an online portal that we can use to submit cases. However, the type of responses we got back, and the level of assistance from the support persons reviewing our cases were not what we needed. We needed a little bit more in-depth help, which the team couldn’t provide. We had to go directly to our account representative to get the right response.

Neutral

The initial setup was pretty straightforward. It was standard. I rate the ease of setup a seven out of ten. The deployment was very quick. We can have the tool up and running within a couple of hours. Adding clients or tenants to the tool takes 45 to 50 minutes as long as we have the developer access to the tenant to set up the configuration. A cloud architect and I deploy the solution.

We do not do any maintenance for the tool. It is a SaaS tool. It is hosted by the provider. However, the data is not stored by the tool. The tool reads data from different Azure tenants that we configure on it. The data isn't written anywhere. It's just read from the Microsoft tenant.

The price depends on the actual Azure consumption and what we feed into it. The cost is on par with other providers.

CloudBolt seems to have better reporting. It has a lot more flexibility in reporting. The support is so far better than what CloudCheckr offers.

Overall, I rate the tool a six out of ten.

What do you like best about the product?

Spot platform by NetApp enables us to assign mandatory tags on all deployed resources, which helps in cloud resource cost segregation quickly.

We can map our cloud infrastructure footprint under a single dashboard & utlize its recommendations to evaluate potential savings.

It provides comprehensive governance control to identify unneded resource deployments and carry out its decomissioning activities in our cloud environments.

What do you dislike about the product?

Since its resource analyzer is cloud-based utility backed up by a cloud provider & region, the availability of Spot instances may fluctuate & may affect the feasibility of cloud optimization strategies.

This is applicable to all service platforms that rely upon Cloud Service Provider (CSP), hence its not a major downside, looking at the overall cloud spend management.

By streamlining our workloads with Spot insights, we determine cost predictions & estimate resource expenditures based on historical data & changes in the anticipated workloads.

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

Spot platform effectively benefits us by allowing us to identify all underutilized & idle resources which can be terminated for saving resource expenditures.

We can conveniently tag critical resources which handle our priority workload, so that it can be monitored & won't be accidentally interrupted by other deployments.

It offers single pane of glass visibility on various metrics such as cost prediction, resource utilization, and cost trends which greatly helps with our cloud cost analysis.

Since it supports cross-organizational accounts from different CSP, we can quickly build a centralized overview dashboard for resource reclamation, instance optimization and cloud cost governance stategies.

We had not been evaluating the spending for our group. So we used CloudCheckr to evaluate what we had running and how much it cost to turn off what we did not need.

The solution is scalable for our purposes.

I found it less useful. My group took the data and organized it with Tableau. I used CloudCheckr to verify what I was seeing in Tableau. The solution must improve its user interface.

I have been using the solution for two weeks.

I did not see any instability. I rate the product’s stability a ten out of ten.

I rate the scalability an eight out of ten.

Tableau is more useful than CloudCheckr.

People wanting to use the solution must check the documentation and be prepared for a learning curve. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Private Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

What do you like best about the product?

Algorithmic choosing of spot instance types by price using scores.

What do you dislike about the product?

Would be nice to have a single node group that can do x86 and arm64 without changing AMI

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

AutoScaling EC2s based on application demands. Makes management and scaling easy to use and saves a lot of money that is measurable and predictable

What do you like best about the product?

The service in chat
the simplicity of the product
a variety of possibilities to use the product

What do you dislike about the product?

The brazilian reseller dont know about the product
the documentation is confusing
some aws permissions is confusing to understanding

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

I want to reduce my bill with aws in 30%. My best try is with spotinst

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Its a great option to reduce the AWS bill! Easy to use and great results