Cost governance has improved and cost visibility now drives daily compliant optimization
What is our primary use case?
My main use case is monitoring my cloud costs, security posture, and checking how my costs are aligning with actual activities and how they can be optimized on a day-to-day basis.
The main use case is around cost optimization, governance, and ensuring compliance is maintained. CloudCheckr is used to identify idle resources, oversized instances, and opportunities for savings through right-sizing and reservations.
In my day-to-day work, most of my time is spent ensuring compliance and preventing overspending. Our costs are optimized properly, and the major use case involves identifying and ensuring that all finances are used effectively and efficiently while aligning with overall application needs and growth prospects.
What is most valuable?
CloudCheckr is an excellent tool overall. The feature that stands out is how it enables cost savings and efficiency. The cost visibility and reporting are really valuable, and the dashboard is informative and enables good decision-making. The actionable recommendations are beneficial, such as the auto-generated suggestions for optimization. The built-in security and compliance checks, along with scheduled reports, save a lot of manual effort and keep both engineering and finance teams aligned.
CloudCheckr has been great and has helped solve problems by ensuring proper compliance. It does not just show data; it highlights actionable items for cost savings, security improvements, and compliance gaps. Scheduled reports are received on a regular basis according to defined schedules, providing more insights that can be shared with leadership and finance teams to ensure alignment. This results in a better picture where everyone is aligned and focused on growth while effectively and efficiently using financial resources.
CloudCheckr has enabled an average cost saving of approximately 25% from the last year, and this occurred while also increasing the scale of production. It has significantly reduced manual efforts that would otherwise be spent manually checking costs, tracking where spending is occurring, and verifying whether everything is properly optimized.
What needs improvement?
Some aspects could be made more customizable, such as the dashboard and UI. Some features may be too advanced and may have a learning curve, potentially lacking customization. Overall, CloudCheckr is a powerful and feature-rich tool with abundant metrics.
The primary suggestion would be to add more customization levels. Since the platform is very feature-rich, the UI may feel overwhelming sometimes. Fixing this would be beneficial. More customizable reports and configurations would be an improvement. The learning curve could be simplified, but once familiar with the tool, it is excellent.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using CloudCheckr for two years.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
CloudCheckr is quite scalable and can be scaled across multiple cloud environments and multiple accounts.
How are customer service and support?
I would rate customer service as excellent. Sometimes support needs to be reached, but they are very responsive and supportive.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Before CloudCheckr, I relied on AWS native tools only, such as Cost Explorer. I needed more granularity and in-depth cost analysis, which is why I switched to this solution. The goal also included extending to multi-cloud to some extent.
What was our ROI?
As shared earlier, there has been approximately a 25% decrease in optimized spending compared to roughly one year ago. Overall, the level of operations has increased with this solution. It has reduced manual efforts that would otherwise be spent checking where spending is occurring and ensuring all teams use resources correctly. This part has been eliminated and has saved significant effort while ensuring all teams remain aligned at all times.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing and licensing are quite convenient. I am not certain about the exact costs involved because another team handles that aspect. Overall, the pricing was quite convenient and represented good value for money.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Other tools such as CloudHealth and Apptio were assessed. They are good and quite strong, but CloudCheckr offered a better balance between cost, security, and compliance in one platform, which is why this solution was chosen.
What other advice do I have?
CloudCheckr is quite good overall and does not need much improvement. Some aspects could be made more customizable, such as the dashboard and UI, and some features may be too advanced with a learning curve while lacking customization. Overall, CloudCheckr is a powerful and feature-rich tool with abundant metrics.
CloudCheckr is an excellent product and a solid cloud management platform that effectively combines cost optimization, security, and compliance. I definitely recommend it to organizations seeking in-depth cost analysis, cost optimization, management of multiple accounts, or maturity in cloud governance. I rate this product a 9 out of 10.
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)
Efficient Cost Analysis But Needs More Optimization Features
What do you like best about the product?
I like how CloudCheckr CMx is easy to use, and the user interface is very friendly. I can just look for things by searching in the search box, unlike other tools where it's difficult to find what to look for. CloudCheckr CMx also provides comprehensive documentation, which helps in exploring all the features it offers. This makes it easy to use the features in various situations. The setup was quite easy, and the team from CloudCheckr was very supportive, which made the overall setup easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would say that it doesn't provide that much of optimization opportunities as of now. Like, they do it only for the EC2 rightsizing as well as the RI recommendations. But we can even go for the other services as well. That's what I think is missing. And also the cost anomaly feature.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use CloudCheckr CMx for cloud cost optimization, detailed resource information, and custom reporting. It helps with billing, invoicing, and credit sharing. The advanced grouping is very helpful.
Cloud optimization has become faster and saves several hours of weekly operational work
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for CloudCheckr is for cloud services, as we upload our data to cloud services.
What is most valuable?
The best feature that CloudCheckr offers, even though I don't use it very often, is that it is easy to use.
What makes CloudCheckr easy for me to use is its intuitive interface.
CloudCheckr has impacted my organization positively by making things easier and saving time, approximately three hours a week.
What needs improvement?
An area where CloudCheckr can be improved is pricing.
There are no other improvements needed for CloudCheckr that I haven't mentioned.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using CloudCheckr for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
CloudCheckr's scalability is fantastic.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support for CloudCheckr is fantastic.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I did not previously use a different solution before CloudCheckr.
How was the initial setup?
I purchased CloudCheckr through the AWS Marketplace.
CloudCheckr is deployed in my organization in a public cloud.
What about the implementation team?
My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
What was our ROI?
I have not yet seen a return on investment.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is fantastic.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing CloudCheckr, I did not evaluate other options.
What other advice do I have?
I would advise others looking into using CloudCheckr that it is a fantastic product. I give this product a rating of 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?
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?
We use the solution primarily to look at Azure consumption data for our clients.
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?
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.
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.
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
