Control Plane Reviews & Product Details

The ability to host my containers on any of the major platforms easily. The whole experience makes spinning up my containers in any region very easy to handle, while also being able to host on Azure, AWS, or Google with ease from a single place. Not only that, it performs well, and their model helps keep the cost of this type of hosting very friendly.

I originally used their UI to do most of my customization, but it's also just as easy to script this out.

For my own SaaS company, it is easy to integrate with Control Plane and automate the provisioning and deprovisioning of tenants on the system.

Not to mention, the people that work at Control Plane really care about their product and provide the level of support that you would get from a family business. Everyone here is friendly and helpful.

I especially like the way they integrated AI into their help documentation to help when needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really haven't had any dislikes with their platform as of yet. Everything has been a smooth experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have been using Control Plane for four years and have seen it grow and evolve quite a bit during that time. The first thing that stands out is their support. Whenever we have had an issue, they have been very quick to respond and help us get it resolved.

We also enjoy the cost savings we get whether using a single cloud provider or multiple cloud providers.

Their Cloud Wormhole technology has also been very useful for us. It allows us to securely access databases and other resources across one or more cloud providers without having to expose those resources publicly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is not much we dislike about Control Plane. After using it for four years, we have not run into any significant drawbacks or tradeoffs that stand out. When we have encountered problems, their team has been quick to address and resolve them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've been a Control Plane customer across multiple companies, and it's the platform I bring with me wherever I go. The portal's UI is clean and intuitive enough that my team can manage complex, multi-cloud workloads without deep specialization in each provider, which means I can run more services with fewer engineers. That's real ROI, not marketing speak.

Integrations are a major strength. It fits cleanly into our existing stack, from our CI/CD pipelines and IaC tooling to observability and secrets management, so adopting it didn't mean ripping anything out. It sits on top of the major cloud providers and abstracts the differences away.

Performance and reliability have been consistently excellent. Deployments are fast and the platform just works, so I spend far less time firefighting than with any other provider I've used.

The standout is their customer support, hands down the most comprehensive and on-point of any vendor in my stack. Fast responses from actual engineers, and a roadmap visibly driven by customer needs, including the intelligent automation they keep layering into the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My main limitation is cloud and hardware coverage. Control Plane supports the major providers well, but with new neoclouds popping up constantly, it's hard for them to stay current, and they don't carry all the GPU types available on the market today. To their credit, their "Bring Your Own Kubernetes" feature is a solid workaround. We use it to integrate servers with GPUs they don't carry directly into our GVC and allocate workloads to them, so we're never actually blocked. Still, native support for more neoclouds and GPU SKUs would remove that extra step. Beyond that, the pace of new features occasionally means documentation lags what's in the portal. Minor issues relative to the value we get. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I value most is how easy it is to manage our infrastructure. We don’t have a dedicated platform engineer, and Control Plane helps us keep our headcount down while still staying on top of things. I also appreciate the updates that introduce new, important features. Overall, it’s straightforward for technical folks to get up and running with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At times, the interface can make it harder to access certain features. I understand it’s necessary to support a rich feature set, but the added complexity can still slow things down when I’m trying to move quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really appreciate Control Plane's top-notch support, which feels like having an NBA basketball team on your side, helping manage complex infrastructure without needing a large operations team. They jump on calls when things go wrong, providing incredible support. Their cost controls are a huge plus as well, letting me track spending down to the minute and make sense of ROI. Their platform makes it super simple to stay compliant and secure with SOC 2 and ISO systems. I also find the ability to use multiple cloud providers really valuable, allowing us to choose based on price and needs. The unified access control and auditability are fantastic. Control Plane also saves us costs by letting us use fractional spot instances for dev environments. Their web console and command line tool are powerful for quick deployments, metric tracking, and security, making infrastructure management easier and more efficient. Control Plane facilitates building automation and meeting compliance guarantees, which is very valuable to us. The setup is a breeze, especially if you're familiar with Kubernetes, and it was definitely worth transitioning to. I recommend Control Plane to everyone discussing infrastructure, management, and scalability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One area where Control Plane could improve is providing better visibility into their overall roadmap. It's sometimes challenging to understand compatibility between their different Kubernetes offerings, which has led to wasted time diagnosing issues that were due to misalignment of features between the fully managed version, the managed version, and the "bring your own" setup. This confusion could be reduced if the roadmap and compatibility information were clearer upfront. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The platform provides the flexibility and resilience of Kubernetes with ease of management via the console, as well as unprecedented visibility into cost, usage, performance and resilience.

The support team are response and engage quickly, and are very willing to dive into the technical detail, even going so far as to assist with updates to automations.

The platform provides several templates for hosting well know platforms including Postgres, Kafka, MongoDb, etc.

Connecting these services in a secured and structured way is well organized and boils down to configuration and automation with helm charts.

The pricing of services and usage is well understood and reasonable, and configuring services according to budget is very easy to manage and observe.

We have tested some of the AI MCP capabilities, but not extensively at this stage, as we would like to maintain control while we establish a controlled environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At this stage there are no obvious downsides from based on the capabilities that we have used, aside from the AI tooling which we have not used extensively as yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that Control Plane makes it very easy for us to have multi-regional, scaled deployments for infrastructure within in our own managed AWS account. We were able to achieve mostly automated infrastructure deployments in a much shorter period of time than we could have managed alone. Additionally, the support team is responsive, competent, and patient. I liked that they didn't charge us a lot upfront, making it easy to get started and experiment with their tool. It was important for us to have control over our infrastructure, and Control Plane allows us to maintain that ownership while enabling rapid modernization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There were definitely some road bumps in the beginning with Control Plane, which I can attribute to us being one of their first customers. While the initial experience with setting up was a bit tough, I think the Control Plane team has worked hard to make it a smoother experience now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Control Plane gives us the flexibility we need without compromising speed or resiliency. It helped us achieve a six-nines SLA, which is huge for us. Support is stellar when we need it and the pricing is fair. Amazing solution for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't have anything that I dislike about control plane Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Back in 2021, I was tasked with building out the full architecture for a new startup with limited time and resources. One of the first things I knew I needed was to bring on board a top notch DevOps engineer or lead, someone with deep knowledge and experience spinning up new infrastructure from scratch with security and stability in mind. Hiring was very tough during that time, and the recruitment process was taking longer than I expected. A friend and former coworker from the Jet.com days suggested I explore Control Plane, and arranged a meeting.

That meeting ultimately solved the need for one of my first and most important hires to be a DevOps engineer. Control Plane's capabilities blew me away. Their deep knowledge of infrastructure, multi cloud support, and security minded approach were at the core of their platform. I signed up right there and then, which was one of the best decisions of my tenure at that startup. The speed of spinning up new infrastructure myself through their platform pleasantly surprised me, and their team's tools and support were world class. Not being tied to a specific cloud, with multi cloud capability right out of the box, made their product stand out even more.

I would recommend that any and every startup explore Control Plane, and put their most important resources toward building their vision instead of building out infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Better support for GovCloud. During the time I used them that support was limited Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that I can set up a cloud for my app in a matter of minutes and get right to writing and hosting logic, as opposed to regular cloud providers that take hours, if not days, just to get a simple backend deployed. I also love how Control Plane lets me pick and choose cloud providers to best suit my needs. It minimizes dev ops and allows me to focus directly on writing the business logic for my applications without worrying about infrastructure setup and management. Once the cloud provider accounts are set up, it's quite fast to get something straightforward and simple up and running. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Control Plane is quite complex and intimidating to get started with due to its impressive and heady feature set. This can make it challenging initially to get going. Using templates could be beneficial in understanding how everything fits together, as getting something concrete and "blessed" up and running makes it easier to play and explore the features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.