We predominantly use Zesty to manage our spend in AWS, specifically around reserving instances for our compute workload. Our workload is dynamic, and it would be cumbersome and difficult for us to maintain and manage the reserved instance profiles ourselves. We leverage Zesty to programmatically adjust our reserved instance purchases and sell off RI contracts as they are no longer needed.
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Effortless cost management with automated instance adjustment and helpful support
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
Zesty reduces our monthly bill. On average, between 85% and 95% percent of our environment is covered by some form of reserved instance, and each of these agreements reduces the spend by 30% to 35% percent. This results in a material impact on the bill and allows us to allocate savings to other areas.
What is most valuable?
The turnkey aspect of Zesty is very valuable. I set it up, spend around 15 minutes granting access, and from there, it operates automatically. Zesty manages the workload, and their pricing is structured in a way that incentivizes them to save us more money.
What needs improvement?
There are different resource types that we would like to leverage and get reserved instances for, such as RDS instances. Currently, no mechanism within Zesty allows this, but this may be due to AWS limitations. Another point is that Zesty needs to react to any changes AWS makes, but they have been proactive in their communication regarding material impacts.
For how long have I used the solution?
It's probably been about five years since I began using Zesty, back when they were Cloudvisor.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I have never had any issues or experienced a bug. Occasionally, I might need help understanding the UI to ensure I'm interpreting the data correctly, however, my customer care representative is always there to help. I've never experienced stability or outage issues.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate scalability a ten out of ten. The necessary scaling is transparent to me, and I don't observe any issues.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support has been great. There has been some turnover due to turmoil in Israel, where Zesty is headquartered. However, they transition well across account representatives. In the few instances I've needed support, they have been available despite the time zone difference.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The setup is straightforward. They walk you through the process, and it's as simple as copying and pasting into the AWS console. Once it's set up, you're done.
What was our ROI?
We see a return on investment every month.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Their pricing is brilliant. It is a percentage of what they save us by using reserved instances. If they save us $25,000, they might charge five percent of that, which is work we wouldn't do on our own. It's a no-brainer.
What other advice do I have?
I advise that while it may seem like managing reserved instances is something you can do on your own unless you are extremely disciplined, you won't achieve the same consistency and regularity as Zesty would. Not using Zesty leaves money on the table.
I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Easy to use and onboard, and its support team is really good
What is our primary use case?
We use the solution for savings plans, reserved instances, and automation. We customize the reserved instances of savings plans depending on the account type.
What is most valuable?
What I like about Zesty is that it's basically being completely hands-off. It does what's expected of it, and you don't have to worry about cost or cost savings. You just automate that part of the cloud, and the buying and selling of all the little businesses and savings plans will be done for you.
One of the things Zesty recently launched was Windows reserved instances because they needed support until recently. One of the reasons we decided to onboard Zesty was that it started supporting Windows instances.
Zesty helped reduce our cloud cost without needing a FinOps team to constantly look at cloud costs. Managing all of that is completely automated now.
What needs improvement?
I would like to get RDS-reserved instances that I could buy and sell, but that's a limitation on AWS.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with Zesty in my current company for about three months, but I worked with it for a year in a previous company.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We haven’t faced any issues with the solution’s stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Zesty is a scalable solution. Around four people have access to the dashboard in our organization.
How was the initial setup?
The solution’s initial setup is straightforward. To deploy the solution, you need to add an AIM role on the accounts you need to onboard. We enabled SSO on the portal. The SSO is just a question of negotiating the service and sharing the certificates and private keys with them, which was very easy. The initial setup took around five minutes.
What was our ROI?
We got around 48% cost savings with Zesty.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution’s pricing is reasonable.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Zesty, we evaluated other tools like Cloudability. We tried other solutions, but Zesty turned out to be the best because of its insurance plan. If Zesty makes a mistake and over provisions the commitment, we don't pay their bill until the commitment is credited to us.
What other advice do I have?
The way we're using it is completely hands-off. We just trust that they do the automation to buy the reserved instances and the same instance for us. The solution has other features like the storage explorer, which can save you money on new storage. It also has the Zesty disk, but I never use those because I never had the use case for them.
The solution's AI functionality is really easy to use and automatic. Since it's all automated, we don't see what the AI is doing. We just keep the savings at the end of the month and pay the bill. It is not difficult to maintain the solution. I would recommend the solution to other users because it is very easy to use.
The solution is easy to use and onboard, and its support team is really good.
Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Awesome
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to use, almost not time / effort and big cost saving
What do you dislike about the product?
Renewal method, could be simplier, maybe limited by AWS Marketplace
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cost saving in AWS without having to deal with long period contract term for reserved instances
Zesty allows us to improve our instance coverage and save costs.
What do you like best about the product?
The Zesty setup was quick, and on the dashboard, we can see the savings provided as well as the resources that are over-provisioned. Zesty handles contracting the CRIs to achieve 99% instance coverage, while we manage the SRIs. With their help, we have been able to reduce our AWS Compute Cost montly bill by an additional 40%
What do you dislike about the product?
Initially, the communication was not very smooth, but after we hada an online meeting, they were able to resolve all our questions, and we were assigned Spanish-speaking staff, which improved communication.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows us to see the compute cost and reduce it by an additional 40% on top of the SRIs we already had contracted.
Easy savings for AWS
What do you like best about the product?
The integration and implementation was very easy and we had full support all the way. The platform is very easy to use. The new features seems very helpfull aswell and I can't wait to test them
What do you dislike about the product?
I dont have any complains about Zesty since we started working with them.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are a growing company and the costs in AWS are increasing exponentionally. Zesty is helping as to save as much money as we can in EC2 AWS.
Zesty helped us manage the entire instance reservation process allowing us to focus on other areas
What do you like best about the product?
The automation and peace of mind of delegating that responsibility for reservations to Zesty is fabulous, we were able to greatly optimize our reservation spending.I n less than a year we managed to reduce the monthly cost by 3000 USD on average, having recurring meetings with Zesty helps us understand the status and evolution of the reservations as well as define new workloads and start with additional reservations from day zero.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have not experienced any isses with the use of Zesty or support of their other equipment
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Zesty helps us be sure of the reservation amounts that our workloads need, as well as reservation opportunities and control the number of instances running in our infrastructure
A great tool to cut down on extra AWS costs!
What do you like best about the product?
The support team and onboarding team were phenomenal when we first started using Zesty, getting signed up and brought on was a breeze. Continued support has been very good and they have been very forthcoming with any information we requested. We make use of Zesty's dashboards pretty regularly as well and also make good use of the metrics they provide us directly. Getting this integrated into our AWS accounts was also a breeze. Cost savings are very good with this platform and nothing needs to be done after onboarding is complete, it's set and forget.
What do you dislike about the product?
Their dashboards could use a bit more work, providing more granular views, maybe even breaking down resources that could be totally removed. Perhaps an expansion on the tool to provide something relevant to Kubernetes cost cutting would be nice too like some competitors have.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have an excess of EC2 instances that we don't cover with our own savings plans or reserved instances and Zesty has helped a lot to manage that excess cost and reduce it by a very good amount. It's helping us cut down on costs we'd otherwise be losing money on.
Zesty is great for saving AWS costs
What do you like best about the product?
Zesty allows you to save 50% on your EC2 instance costs with almost no input required from you. The onboarding and set up process took us about 1 hour in total and requires no further input to start saving. Zesty will also keep you up to date with your savings with regular review meetings and their dashboard makes everything very easy to view and understand.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far we have we have had no issues with Zesty and therefore no dislikes
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Zesty helps us reduce our EC2 instance costs by over 50%.
Effortless Cloud Commitment Management with Zesty
What do you like best about the product?
Zesty automates and manages our RI/CRI/SP commitments on AWS. What stands out the most is the ease with which we can oversee all our cloud commitments without the need to manage them in-house. Zesty’s app provides a great overview, detailing our coverage split by RI/CRI/SP, coverage levels etc. which allows us to easily track and optimise our cloud spend. Additionally, their Slack support is very responsive and gives us valuable advice that helps us make informed decisions.
What do you dislike about the product?
At this point, there's nothing negative to mention about the product and service. Zesty has met all our expectations by streamlining our cloud commitments and offering outstanding support.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Zesty solves our need to automate management of cloud commitments. By taking over the automation of our RIs, CRIs, and SPs management, Zesty allows our team to redirect focus to our core operations. Their platform provides clear visibility into our cloud commitments and costs/savings, which helps us prevent under/overutilisation. This not only saves us valuable time but also cuts down on costs, streamlining our approach to cloud infrastructure management.
It's free money, don't leave it on the table
What do you like best about the product?
Just like those old rotisserie chicken commercials, Zesty is about as "set it and forget it" as you can get. Onboarding was quick, and has required zero work after the initial configuration.
What do you dislike about the product?
I understand the ramp up period of Zesty is required as it takes time to learn our usage, but it would be nice if we could crank up a manual dial for the aspects of our workload that we know will be fairly consistent.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy savings.
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