We use the solution primarily to look at Azure consumption data for our clients.
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Provides recommendations regarding how cost and consumption can be adjusted, but the reporting and analytic capabilities are very limited
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
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.
What is most valuable?
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.
What needs improvement?
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.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for roughly two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate the tool’s stability an eight out of ten. We haven’t had any usability issues.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate the tool’s scalability an eight out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
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.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
How was the initial setup?
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.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The price depends on the actual Azure consumption and what we feed into it. The cost is on par with other providers.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
CloudBolt seems to have better reporting. It has a lot more flexibility in reporting. The support is so far better than what CloudCheckr offers.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I rate the tool a six out of ten.
Good tool for compliance check
What do you like best about the product?
It is a good end to end tool cloud management tool. Mostly used for cost control and security reason. Good tool and easy to use as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
I haven't seen any downside. May be there could be more features like added. There is a lot of potential for improvement and may be integration can be introduced as well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is very good for compliance and end to end cloud management. It has helped with the compliance of my application
Syncing files across devices made easy.
What do you like best about the product?
I really like that I could sync my files from my mobile phone to my laptop using CloudChecker CMx. It is not that costly as well compared to its competitors.
What do you dislike about the product?
The area that needs improvement is its navigation though. Not that user friendly if you are still new to it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mostly management of files and accessing them across devices as well as providing storage.
Simple, elegant and cost deductive
What do you like best about the product?
CloudCheckr CMx is a good platform the resource are really optimistic and the cost is better and is better comparatively in the market which is secure also compliance
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI UX could have been better and sometimes the process is slow compared to the time management and could be better in navigation, and it is not always easy to use
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CloudCheckr it gathers Microsoft Azure and public cloud insights in one platform and the IaaS management, the dashboard alerts are really helpful and helps in multi cloud infrastructure
A stable and scalable solution that enables users to evaluate spending and lower their expenses
What is our primary use case?
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.
What is most valuable?
The solution is scalable for our purposes.
What needs improvement?
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.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for two weeks.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I did not see any instability. I rate the product’s stability a ten out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate the scalability an eight out of ten.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Tableau is more useful than CloudCheckr.
What other advice do I have?
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.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Private Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloud Managment
What do you like best about the product?
The user interface is the best and offers many features that support and helps in monitoring cloud consumption and resource allocation, etc.
It does have alerts systems, you can schedule alters for consumption daily or weekly, or monthly, and you can also receive notifications for health improvement of your Azure Environment.
It does have alerts systems, you can schedule alters for consumption daily or weekly, or monthly, and you can also receive notifications for health improvement of your Azure Environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
The alerts give a delay for 3 days consumption.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The user interface is the best and offers many features that support and helps in monitoring cloud consumption and resource allocation, etc.
It does have alerts systems, you can schedule alters for consumption daily or weekly, or monthly, and you can also receive notifications for health improvement of your Azure Environment.
It does have alerts systems, you can schedule alters for consumption daily or weekly, or monthly, and you can also receive notifications for health improvement of your Azure Environment.
Very good product for understanding cloud cost
What do you like best about the product?
Works well with mainly AWS and has too many options to look into.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes gets difficult to find things we need.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Understanding cloud cost
An advanced system to keep our systems safe. !!
What do you like best about the product?
We feel safe when we publish our campaigns since its functions are constantly evaluating the risks to which we are prone and do not allow us to face them, through its tools we manage security and regulatory compliance so that no terms or any threat leaks out. For its part, the visualization panel is powerful when we need to manage and optimize our cloud, giving us total visibility, which saves effort and money from even the most complex cloud infrastructure. In general, it does not help protect, manage and control the most sensitive environments of the entire business system.
What do you dislike about the product?
The implementation of much more detailed training and certification is lacking, in turn, it offers so many options that any newbie to handling these tools may feel a bit lost, but training, documentation and an excellent support team are there. available, so there is no need to worry, and for this reason and many more it is one of the best software on the market.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are more productive in terms of revenue, we achieve this by using tools that allow us to quickly optimize business spending in the cloud mainly, being able to eliminate all waste by forcing compliance with regulations in the cloud, even optimizing growth of practice in it. The visibility is 360º throughout the web, protecting us by monitoring the continuous activity in it, making a detailed report with the information while the necessary regulations are met.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is a powerful tool for any company since CloudCheckr continuously monitors, analyzes and reports on each resource in the cloud and in its environment, allowing to identify and eliminate every money wasted in spending in the cloud. Allowing to save a large percentage or more by requesting a Cloud Check report. Managed services are nourished by its tools to increase margins, increase billing accuracy, reduce invoice processing time and provide recommendations that increase the recovery of your professional services, certainly this software is totally designed for the growth of the practice in the cloud.
Attractive and simple cloud for saving files.
What do you like best about the product?
All company personnel feel comfortable using this platform, we know that it is the best in terms of the visualization panel that helps us manage and optimize our public cloud, that through its tools we manage security and compliance risks normative so that no term is violated or any threat is filtered. Its visibility is total, across multiple hybrid workloads, which means that we can achieve immediate cost savings from even the most complex cloud infrastructure. We also implement the SaaS and CloudCheckr CMx functions, which help us protect, manage and govern the most sensitive system environments.
What do you dislike about the product?
The application of credits is sometimes limited, taking into account that we would like to make it more dynamic and relevant for monthly expenses. However, other graphics are quite sustainable and help us meet this main need. Therefore, it does not seem like an aspect for which we would not use the software anymore, in addition its other functions are so precise that we have obtained better business results since we implemented it in the company.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
You can quickly optimize spending, eliminate waste, and improve security and compliance while on the cloud journey. We increase margins and billing accuracy, apart from reducing invoice processing time and we use recommendations to increase the recovery of professional services, as well as, its fully professional interface provides us with powerful functions with which we can optimize the growth of cloud practice. Full visibility across the entire web infrastructure enables us to protect and monitor status and activity, turning information into action while meeting compliance demands.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Empowers companies of any size to continuously monitor, analyze and report on each resource in the cloud and in their sales environment, in turn empowers them with the necessary tools to identify and eliminate every money that can be wasted in online spending, requesting a report from CloudCheckr. The dashboards are very easy to manage and understand, between accounts they also provide sophisticated reporting for company-wide inventory based on tags, geographies, functions and more to proactively optimize workloads.
CloudCheckr : only somewhat less overwhelming than Amazon Cost Controls
What do you like best about the product?
CloudCheckr has a slick GUI to show information about your Amazon deployed resources. It also has the capabilities to scan Google and Azure. It is a simple way to see month over month billing differences, far easier than the Amazon-provided Cost Management dashboard.
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface sometimes doesn't load reliably, and it can be slow to load at times. Sometimes queries that you think should be simple to obtain require a call to support to find out which menu option it is hidden under.
Calculation of ReservedInstance usage has been historically very inaccurate, to the point of being misleading.
Calculation of ReservedInstance usage has been historically very inaccurate, to the point of being misleading.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CloudCheckr makes it easier to track down errant resources within Amazon. For a large company with many divisions consuming resources, this can be very useful. For a small company, where resources are controlled by a smaller team, it can be overkill.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I only advise going to CloudCheckr for large organizations with disparate departments who are disconnected that need to get a holistic overview of their spend.
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