# Stacklet Platform Reviews **Vendor:** Stacklet **Category:** [Cloud Compliance Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-compliance) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 10 ## About Stacklet Platform Stacklet Platform is a Governance as Code solution that accelerates cloud adoption with intelligent guardrails and actionable insights for security, compliance, cost, and operations. The Stacklet platform empowers cloud and security engineering teams to codify, automate, visualize, and collaborate on policies in a standard, easy-to-use, declarative language. Stacklet Platform extends Cloud Custodian open source project with intelligent management capabilities, including governance insights, real-time asset inventory, out-of-the-box policy packs, and advanced communications to help businesses innovate securely and efficiently in the cloud at scale. ## Stacklet Platform Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users benefit from **centralized management** in Stacklet Platform, enhancing security and simplifying governance across cloud environments. (1 reviews) - Users value the **real-time enforcement of security policies** across cloud environments, enhancing governance and tracking capabilities. (1 reviews) - Users value the **dashboard usability** of Stacklet Platform for effectively tracking security policies and governance across cloud environments. (1 reviews) - Users value the **real-time security policy enforcement** of Stacklet, enhancing governance and risk management across cloud environments. (1 reviews) - Users value the **ease of use** of Stacklet Platform, appreciating its intuitive interface for managing security policies. (1 reviews) - Policy Management (1 reviews) - Reporting (1 reviews) - Security (1 reviews) - Tracking (1 reviews) - Visibility (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users note the **insufficient information** on compliance frameworks in Stacklet Platform, impacting data governance efforts. (1 reviews) - Users find the **lack of compliance frameworks** in the Stacklet Platform a significant limitation for data governance. (1 reviews) ## Stacklet Platform Reviews ### 1. Implementation of Governance via coding platform. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suyash K. | Data Analytics Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Stacklet Platform?** Real time enforcement of security policies across all the cloud environments. Provides the security by reducing the risks by centralizing the governance. Also, provide the historical revisions and dashboards for tracking purposes. **What do you dislike about Stacklet Platform?** I think the biggest missing part from Stacklet platform has been lack of compliance frameworks. Whenever we talk about data governance, there's always talk about different compliance frameworks but it looks like there are not many frameworks currently available at this time. **What problems is Stacklet Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Real time business security policies. 2. Achieving data governance across all the platforms. 3. With different laws coming out, it helps in achieving CCPA and GDPR. ### 2. Cloud governance made easier **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Norman L. | Solutions Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Stacklet Platform?** Stacklet brings the best of Cloud Custodian compliance policies within manageable reach of even the most disparate and large organizations. With Stacklet, we can automate compliance checks for any of our cloud environments, along with auto-remediate any of our findings without requiring any human interaction. Compliance checks are easy to create and are well documented. Actions taken upon findings can range from as simple as record findings in a database, to sending notifications (email, IM bot messaging, ticket generation), to making a cloud provider API call to correct the setting, to custom calls to fit your unique desires. Stacklet also provides access to a database of most cloud resources defined, allowing for answers to most cloud platform questions easy to answer, as long as you can envision the SQL query. In addition to the above product portfolio, I truly love the fact that Stacklet is tightly bound with the cloud custodian community, with each team improving core aspects of the compliance policy execution framework. Stacklet's add-on of management tools and assetdb make the community offering something which is manageable with minimal effort, no matter how complicated out environment may be. **What do you dislike about Stacklet Platform?** Stacklet is a younger company that is still maturing their offerings. This has meant that I may need a newer feature which has not yet been coded up. In my experience, this had meant that I may need to wait a few months for most of my new feature requests. On the flip side, this has been beneficial for me in the long run as more established/older companies have a track history of equating lack of current features with a lack of desire to address my new requirements on any timeline. **What problems is Stacklet Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stacklet provides an easy framework to take audit requirements in the morning, have policies and remediation actions in place by lunch, and immediately turn over to my operations team. When operational questions come up, Stacklet's assetdb allow us to immediately provide the answers we're looking for so we don't need to waste time assessing our environment. ### 3. Stacklet.io - Governance as Code **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paul H. | Chief Information Security Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Stacklet Platform?** The ability to create custom rules in addition to the compliance packages out of the box that they provide for you. In addition to the ability to customize rules checks is their support team. Very knowledgeable and extremely helpful! And they help your team by teaching them how to use the product when working to solve problems, not just provide a canned KB article. **What do you dislike about Stacklet Platform?** My biggest dislike is the lack of compliance frameworks currently available out of the box for their product. I know they are adding additional frameworks at this point, and we can work around that aspect due to the ability to customize our rule checks at an extremely high level. **What problems is Stacklet Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Near real-time cloud inventory collection that includes those resources meta-data attributes that enables us to understand the security related to that asset. This capability has helped us to do this across many cloud accounts and tenants using a centralized console to report and take action from. ### 4. Sustainable multi-cloud governance as code **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jason L. | VP - Solutions Architecture, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Stacklet Platform?** Stacklet elevates the open source Cloud Custodian project, wrapping with orchestration services that enable codified multi-cloud governance as code. It enables our cloud operations teams to write repeatable, declarative code policies that can be used repeatedly and map to our specific business needs as they evolve, regardless of hosting location. We're able to sustainably deliver governance services that protect financial, security, and operational outcomes at scale. As business needs or cloud providers change, I'm confident that maturing today's codified policies for tomorrow's needs. Stacklet additional comes with an additional real-time cloud asset database service. We've been able to accelerate flexibly interrogating our cloud asset inventory in near real-time and overlaying other data sources to build enhanced business intelligence. The data outputs are driving additional perspectives of our assets and their configuration status, mapping to financial or other operational perspectives used across the organization in day-to-day operations. The Stacklet support team has been committed to our end-user experience, receptive to taking client input to help shape and mature future capabilities. It represents a partnership - not just use of a product. **What do you dislike about Stacklet Platform?** As a smaller organization, Stacklet is still building their own operating maturity. It will require some patience as they experience growth & development of maturing capabilities. **What problems is Stacklet Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's enabled sustainable cloud operations to deliver codified policies at scale that impact all areas of financial management, operational sustainability, and security detection/preventive services. These outcomes ensure we can be good stewards of protecting financials in our services, and enable secure revenue outcomes at scale. ### 5. How Stacklet has helped us save cloud cost and manage compliance **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ray H. | Cloud Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Stacklet Platform?** Governance as Code - Standardizing code that is consistent, and easy to use for developing cost savings, compliance, and security policies. Before we had teams and individuals using an assortment of code, bash, python, etc, and deploying them using VMs and other serverless compute services, which created issues in troubleshooting, updating, and locating the different policy scripts. AssetDB - This allows our IT and Security teams to search (using SQL queries) across all regions and accounts, instead of having to log in to each account to search for a resource. Having the ability to generate inventory reports across accounts has also improved our ability to meet different compliance initiatives. Notifications - Having the ability to notify users of both policy rules and reports has helped to limit the amount of pushback and increased user buy-in and adoption. Cost - All of the above at a fraction of using native tools to attempt the same functions. This is also cost-saving in staff hours required to code and maintain all of the different policies. **What do you dislike about Stacklet Platform?** I feel like the product needs more work on login roles and policies, but would still recommend it without hesitation. The Stacklet team is very responsive and eager to help with any issues that we have had. **What problems is Stacklet Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** One of the biggest issues of having a multi-organization/team environment is adoption. Stacklet has helped us manage and actually get our tagging policies off the ground and gain acceptance from teams across the board for the first time after trying for years to get buy-in. Stacklet and the Assetdb have also greatly enhanced our ability to meet various compliance initiatives by providing reports and artifacts for auditors. ### 6. Stacklet is an excellent platform for consolidating cloud security and compliance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael C. | Principal Security Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Stacklet Platform?** The ability to customize the compliance policies to meet our specific needs, and the rich set of APIs to integrate with our automation and DevOps tools. Many other off-the-shelf compliance products have very limited customization features which lead to false positives and false negatives, and also requires more complicated exception handling processes. Additionally, the Stacklet team has been outstanding in taking our feedback and quickly incorporating improvements in their platform. **What do you dislike about Stacklet Platform?** The administrative and reporting user-interfaces are still evolving, though we primarily use the APIs so it is not a big issue for us. **What problems is Stacklet Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** It gives us a single platform for multi-cloud compliance and Cloud Security Posture Management, replacing at least 4 different tools that were previously used. This greatly improves the efficiency of our compliance and engineering teams, and gives us a common set of processes and nomenclature across all of our cloud estates. ### 7. Stacklet enables our team to improve our cloud governance. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Stacklet Platform?** Policy management is flexible and customizable so we can enable what is correct for our needs. The APIs are easy to use so integrating to our other tooling is straight forward. The Stacklet team's support is very good. They are collaborative and very interested in our success. **What do you dislike about Stacklet Platform?** The platform is still evolving, so there are some nice-to-have features yet to be implemented. **What problems is Stacklet Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our organizational governance needs to mature. Additionally, we are transitioning from a vendor-supported operational model. Stacklet is enabling us to take control of the cloud security compliance in-house and make it better. ### 8. Stacklet Helps Optimize Cloud Assets at Scale **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Stacklet Platform?** Reasons why I like Stacklet -Open-source policy language - Our engineers already use Cloud Custodian (c7n). Hence, they can easily add their own policies or adapt the pre-written c7n policies provided by Stacklet. -Scalable - Stacklet makes it easy to deploy across hundreds of accounts -Connect to Jira - Policy violations can be posted to Jira (or Slack) which our Engineers use to manage their work -Cloud asset database - SQL-friendly cloud asset database makes it easy for our engineers to query resources or user visualize them with BI tools **What do you dislike about Stacklet Platform?** The user interface could be more user-friendly. **What problems is Stacklet Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stacklet is helping manage our cloud policies, monitor cloud resources and identify savings opportunities at scale (across hundreds of accounts). ### 9. Multi-cloud governance as code solution for all your needs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Stacklet Platform?** Constant addition of features. AssetDB for querying Great support team. **What do you dislike about Stacklet Platform?** Have not found any issues in working with the stacklet platform. **What problems is Stacklet Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Stacklet Platform is a simple solution to our multi-cloud governance and compliance needs. ### 10. Stacklet has helped us get a handle on our cloud resources **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Stacklet Platform?** It was easy to set up, provides good reporting and analysis of resources, and has granular policy configurations. The staff is very helpful and friendly. **What do you dislike about Stacklet Platform?** We are having issues getting Azure reporting **What problems is Stacklet Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** The platform is helping us resolve audit and compliance issues. - [View Stacklet Platform pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/stacklet-platform/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-17+04%3A09%3A54+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=12a53153-bc1a-418a-98c0-3a072acadd33&secure%5Btoken%5D=c715feba671a756b6a4ca98c5468870502a8857aef455705b7ded83ab2f2e808&format=llm_user) ## Stacklet Platform Features **Operations** - Scheduling - Automation - Multi-Cloud Management - Usage Monitoring **Security** - Compliance Monitoring - Anomoly Detection - Data Loss Prevention - Cloud Gap Analytics **Functionality** - Cloud Consolidation - Cloud Orchestration - Cloud Optimization **Configuration** - DLP Configuration - Configuration Monitoring - Unified Policy Management - Adaptive Access Control - API / Integrations **Cloud Visibility** - Data Discovery - Cloud Registry - Cloud Gap Analytics **Cost Optimization** - Spend Forecasting and Optimization - Recommendations - Spend Tracking **Compliance** - Governance - Data Governance - Sensitive Data Compliance **Management** - Cloud Cost Analytics - Cloud Security - Cloud Resource Management - Cloud Backup and Recovery **Visibility** - Multicloud Visibility - Asset Discovery **Security** - Data Security - Data loss Prevention - Security Auditing **Administration** - Reporting - Dashboards and Visualizations - Compliance **Administration** - Policy Enforcement - Auditing - Workflow Management **Vulnerability Management** - Threat Hunting - Vulnerability Scanning - Vulnerability Intelligence - Risk-Prioritization **Agentic AI - Cloud Management Platforms** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Decision Making **Identity** - SSO - Governance - User Analytics **Agentic AI - Cloud Cost Management** - Autonomous Task Execution - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top Stacklet Platform Alternatives - [Wiz](https://www.g2.com/products/wiz-wiz/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (773 reviews) - [Vanta](https://www.g2.com/products/vanta/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (2,409 reviews) - [Scrut Automation](https://www.g2.com/products/scrut-automation/reviews) - 4.9/5.0 (1,298 reviews)