# Spot Reviews **Vendor:** Flexera **Category:** [Cloud Infrastructure Automation Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-infrastructure-automation) **Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 15 ## About Spot The Spot by NetApp portfolio enables cloud operations teams to deliver scalability, performance and security for cloud infrastructure and applications — at the lowest possible cost — through continuous automation and optimization combined with deep visibility and governance. From cloud-native startups to global enterprises and managed services providers, thousands of customers rely on Spot solutions to unlock the full value of the cloud. ## Spot Reviews ### 1. Spot platform aligns all cross-organizational accounts from different CSP for cloud cost governance **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shreya B. | Cloud Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Spot?** Spot platform by NetApp enables us to assign mandatory tags on all deployed resources, which helps in cloud resource cost segregation quickly. We can map our cloud infrastructure footprint under a single dashboard & utlize its recommendations to evaluate potential savings. It provides comprehensive governance control to identify unneded resource deployments and carry out its decomissioning activities in our cloud environments. **What do you dislike about Spot?** Since its resource analyzer is cloud-based utility backed up by a cloud provider & region, the availability of Spot instances may fluctuate & may affect the feasibility of cloud optimization strategies. This is applicable to all service platforms that rely upon Cloud Service Provider (CSP), hence its not a major downside, looking at the overall cloud spend management. By streamlining our workloads with Spot insights, we determine cost predictions & estimate resource expenditures based on historical data & changes in the anticipated workloads. **What problems is Spot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Spot platform effectively benefits us by allowing us to identify all underutilized & idle resources which can be terminated for saving resource expenditures. We can conveniently tag critical resources which handle our priority workload, so that it can be monitored & won't be accidentally interrupted by other deployments. It offers single pane of glass visibility on various metrics such as cost prediction, resource utilization, and cost trends which greatly helps with our cloud cost analysis. Since it supports cross-organizational accounts from different CSP, we can quickly build a centralized overview dashboard for resource reclamation, instance optimization and cloud cost governance stategies. ### 2. Free Money **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steve E. | Vice President, Engineering Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Spot?** Reducing compute costs by 80%+ is the most obvious thing to like about Spot Ocean. However in addition to that they are a great partner, provide excellent service, domain expertise on compute environments, and are generally excellent to work with. **What do you dislike about Spot?** On Spot Ocean literally nothing. I would like to see better reporting on their Eco side, and I'm excited to see what they do with their Cloud Checkr acquisition and how well that fits into the broader console, but I honestly have not once considered moving away from Spot Ocean in the past 5 years of usage. **What problems is Spot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our primary use case is running 100% of our container compute on AWS spot instances. We are saving over $10M a year from this alone, with zero performance degradation, resiliency degradation, etc. ### 3. Overall we are a happy Spot Ocean user for around 2 years **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Spot?** Spot Ocean is working in the background and in general we don't need to tweak it too often. It is giving us the cost benefits, with basically no toil at all on the long run. We are using Ocean with almost all our EKS clusters. **What do you dislike about Spot?** It is hard to say much that I dislike. Of course, Ocean is an extra layer of abstraction that we need to think about and take it into the calculation, when we are thinking about reserved instances or spot instances. At the same time, utilizing it with Spot ECO, it is relatively simple. **What problems is Spot solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a fairly seasonal traffic both within a week and within a year. Having many stateless services, our compute resource requirements are fairly varying - following that while also using our instance types and available resources optimally, is a task that is automated for us by Spot Ocean. ### 4. The product is not complete, with some bugs and pages to be improved. The service of spot is good **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrei D. | Tech Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Spot?** The service in chat the simplicity of the product a variety of possibilities to use the product **What do you dislike about Spot?** The brazilian reseller dont know about the product the documentation is confusing some aws permissions is confusing to understanding **Recommendations to others considering Spot:** Its a great option to reduce the AWS bill! Easy to use and great results **What problems is Spot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I want to reduce my bill with aws in 30%. My best try is with spotinst ### 5. Easy implementation and great savings **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Spot?** Spot Ocean's big difference for us was the excellent integration with the provisioning tool we used: kops. This made it very easy to configure a new node groups on existing clusters using Spot Ocean. It also made it easier to maintain our infrastructure as code. **What do you dislike about Spot?** Even though we integrate kops, sometimes it doesn't work well in new kops versions. This is expected because the integration development is slower than the development of kops. For us, this is not a critical issue as we are already used to installing earlier versions of kops compared to the final release. **What problems is Spot solving and how is that benefiting you?** The cost reduction and operational excellence, as this spot instances management is done transparently and efficiently by Spot Ocean. In the first few months after implementation, we got a cost reduction of over 60% with AWS EC2. ### 6. Great product overall **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2022 **What do you like best about Spot?** Significantly cuts cloud cost. Gives applications enough time to gracefully shutdown before evictions most of the time. Syncs very well with AWS EKS and is very easy to use **What do you dislike about Spot?** Pricing is a bit off due to calculation errors. Cost is calculated as a portion of saved expenses - however, these are calculated based on machine types you might not usually use anyway, and therefor calculation is off.. API is not maintained making it difficult to integrate with pipelines. **What problems is Spot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cost reduction. Machine type control and label management ### 7. SRE for 1 year **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amit M. | Sre, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Spot?** The autosacler and its capability to take into consideration PDBs **What do you dislike about Spot?** The time a spot requests takes to be fulfilled **What problems is Spot solving and how is that benefiting you?** To be able to mange my clusters dynamically without the need to scale modes up and down ### 8. Making AWS EC2 Spot Instances a Breeze **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Spot?** Algorithmic choosing of spot instance types by price using scores. **What do you dislike about Spot?** Would be nice to have a single node group that can do x86 and arm64 without changing AMI **What problems is Spot solving and how is that benefiting you?** AutoScaling EC2s based on application demands. Makes management and scaling easy to use and saves a lot of money that is measurable and predictable ### 9. ocean is the future **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Spot?** Being able to manage the containerized workloads using a single UI that includes all the necessary information. **What do you dislike about Spot?** The need to add nodeSelectors in order to use correctly the VNG feature **What problems is Spot solving and how is that benefiting you?** being able to save money with great automation of the recovery process for spots instances that are taken back to the cloud provider ### 10. Spot Ocean Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Spot?** Spot Ocean simplifies my operations in a way that it's easier to scale **What do you dislike about Spot?** I think Spot could come with a larger platform for learning how to manage the benefits it could bring to the table **What problems is Spot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been analyzing and lowering operational costs ### 11. Everything is fine **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vitor C. | QA Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Spot?** Validation information about user is very useful **What do you dislike about Spot?** Nothing to say about it because everything is fine for me **What problems is Spot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I don't solve any problems with this platform but my colleagues did it ### 12. honest Spot Ocean review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2022 **What do you like best about Spot?** Easy of multi operation system use within a clustered configuration, great convenience **What do you dislike about Spot?** manual work, configurations, and repeated manual steps **Recommendations to others considering Spot:** Dive in and have fun **What problems is Spot solving and how is that benefiting you?** lower costs mainly and added efficiency ### 13. Great idea that saves money **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Security and Investigations | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Spot?** The knowledge and assistance the support has. **What do you dislike about Spot?** Sometimes, the need to reconfigure my environment **Recommendations to others considering Spot:** Nice product and good to have. **What problems is Spot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saving money while managing the environment efficiently. ### 14. Data Analyst **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Spot?** The Tech Support department is very knowledgable **What do you dislike about Spot?** The need to change the environment is problematic **What problems is Spot solving and how is that benefiting you?** It saves us a lot of money using the "Spot instances" model ### 15. easy deploy and managing spot isntances **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Spot?** Ocean took the spot instances management out of the picture and allow engineers to adopt EKS running spot instances **What do you dislike about Spot?** should include instance family in spot instances selection instead of specify each instance type **What problems is Spot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cost optimization. Ocean was able to reduce our EC2 compute cost - [View Spot pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/flexera-spot/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-16+23%3A05%3A55+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=82e3f55f-9a6f-4d3a-a676-6e0dc47cc02f&secure%5Btoken%5D=0179b59aa08f00dcbcef4802c1861ea60024392af6103f69b3688996a82bde81&format=llm_user) ## Spot Features **Administration ** - Administration Console - Dashboards and Visualizations - Access Control **Management** - Access Control **Automation** - Test Automation - Intelligent Automation - Release Automation - Automated Provisioning **Organization** - Packaging - Container Networking - Orchestration **IT Management** - Workflow Management - Infrastructure Management - IT Discovery **Development** - Developer Toolkit - Architecture ## Top Spot Alternatives - [GitHub](https://www.g2.com/products/github/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (2,280 reviews) - [GitLab](https://www.g2.com/products/gitlab/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (874 reviews) - [DigitalOcean](https://www.g2.com/products/digitalocean/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (735 reviews)