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Shreya B.
SB
Cloud Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Spot platform aligns all cross-organizational accounts from different CSP for cloud cost governance"
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Steve E.
SE
Vice President, Engineering Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Free Money"
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
AC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Overall we are a happy Spot Ocean user for around 2 years"
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andrei D.
AD
Tech Manager
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"The product is not complete, with some bugs and pages to be improved. The service of spot is good"
What do you like best about Spot?

The service in chat

the simplicity of the product

a variety of possibilities to use the product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easy implementation and great savings"
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security
AC
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great product overall"
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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amit M.
AM
Sre
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"SRE for 1 year"
What do you like best about Spot?

The autosacler and its capability to take into consideration PDBs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Spot?

The time a spot requests takes to be fulfilled Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Making AWS EC2 Spot Instances a Breeze"
What do you like best about Spot?

Algorithmic choosing of spot instance types by price using scores. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Spot?

Would be nice to have a single node group that can do x86 and arm64 without changing AMI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"ocean is the future"
What do you like best about Spot?

Being able to manage the containerized workloads using a single UI that includes all the necessary information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Spot?

The need to add nodeSelectors in order to use correctly the VNG feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking
UB
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Spot Ocean Review"
What do you like best about Spot?

Spot Ocean simplifies my operations in a way that it's easier to scale Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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