# AutoSpotting Reviews **Vendor:** LeanerCloud **Category:** [Auto Scaling Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/auto-scaling) **Average Rating:** 5.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 1 ## About AutoSpotting AutoSpotting allows you to safely and reliably cut your AWS EC2 costs by up to 90% (usually 50-80%) without long term commitments or upfront payments, by replacing EC2 instances in autoscaling groups with identically configured Spot instances. It installs in minutes using CloudFormation and Terraform, and can be configured using tags and even taking over all the groups from your account, without requiring launch template or launch configuration changes, and without causing IaC drift. For maximum compatibility, it supports most applications backed by on-demand autoscaling groups, including for AWS services such as Beanstalk, EKS and ECS that use ASGs under the hood. The main requirement is for the instances to be replaceable without noticeable impact to your users, which is usually the case for autoscaling groups out of the box. For maximum security, privacy and reduced runtime costs it is a fully self-hosted, serverless, pay as you go software that runs entirely in your account with minimalist IAM permissions. Once enabled on your on-demand ASGs by tagging them(you can use any tool for tagging, but we also have a GUI to make it easier and reduce the chance of human errors), it gradually replaces their instances with diversified Spot instances. Under the hood we use attach API calls, then terminate the initial instances, leaving you with up to 90% cheaper but identically configured Spot instances. To minimize capacity churn as much as possible, any new instances are also replaced with the same approach within seconds of being launched, and we use a capacity optimized allocation strategy that gives us instances with lower probability of interruption. To ensure you always get the capacity you need for your application, Spot instances are launched with widest possible diversification, and we also have failover to on-demand instances with the same level of diversification we use for Spot instances. This makes the groups managed by AutoSpotting more resilient to Insufficient Capacity Events that may occasionally impact OnDemand ASGs usually configured with a single instance type. For increased performance and reduced carbon emissions, it always provisions the newest available instance types. ## AutoSpotting Reviews ### 1. Something that isn't too good to be true! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lloyd W. | Principal Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2024 **What do you like best about AutoSpotting?** I was concerned that this tool might be too good to be true, but as it turns out its amazing! Set up took about 5 minutes through the AWS UI. We then used the UI tool from LeanerCloud to set up the tags and instantly started seeing spot instances appearing. We're looking at around £15k USD saving per year at present and this is with the default optimisation (newer instances) rather than for cost. The only minor hiccup we had is that we use an instance refresh to replace our instances, and auto-spot was interfering with this process on deploy. As part of our deployments we set a tag to temporarily pause autospotting and then restore after the instance refresh has completed. Christian was very responsive on this and the functionality was added to the next release. **What do you dislike about AutoSpotting?** I really can not see any after about 6 months of usage. **What problems is AutoSpotting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Autospotting swtiches us to cheaper spot instances whilst our systems are running and is completely hands off. Its all just cost savings for the business! - [View AutoSpotting pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/autospotting/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-23+00%3A34%3A16+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=24ae09a5-27a6-4130-9d53-28d4cf854467&secure%5Btoken%5D=c4c98a5ad108b5d814d03919a95fa2e43d9f254708b3a7fa5e300928081e6aff&format=llm_user) ## AutoSpotting Features **Operations** - Scheduling - Automation - Multi-Cloud Management - Usage Monitoring **Automated resource scaling** - Automatic resource discovery - Smart scaling **Agentic AI - AWS Marketplace** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration **Cost Optimization** - Spend Forecasting and Optimization - Recommendations - Spend Tracking **Scaling strategies** - Pre-defined optimization strategies - Predictive scaling **Administration** - Reporting - Dashboards and Visualizations - Compliance **Visualization** - Unified scaling - Dashboard **Agentic AI - Cloud Cost Management** - Autonomous Task Execution - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top AutoSpotting Alternatives - [Google Compute Engine](https://www.g2.com/products/google-compute-engine/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (875 reviews) - [Datadog](https://www.g2.com/products/datadog/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (693 reviews) - [ServiceNow IT Asset Management](https://www.g2.com/products/servicenow-it-asset-management/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (435 reviews)