ProsperOps has a fairly simple one-time setup, after which we've seen monthly savings with no attention required on our part. I get an email each month highlighting the thousands of dollars saved by using their service. There is also a web dashboard to review how savings are calculated in great detail. Cost optimization of EC2 instances on AWS can be a complex and time-consuming process. ProsperOps has devised an AWS-approved way to automate most of this and get those discounts without ongoing attention or effort. The onboarding team at ProsperOps was also extremely helpful - they answered our questions thoroughly and did a lot of the heavy lifting to get the product set up on our AWS accounts.

It saves us a great deal of money over the long term by helping us not waste cloud space which we used to do a great deal of.

I've used ProsperOps in three organizations now and I plan to do so every time. In summary, PO is "hands free" from human management, extremely effective at what it does and easy to integrate into process. Firstly, ProsperOps is so incredibly simple to use and almost entirely hands free after setup. You just let it run and it manages everything for you in a completely automated fashion. We had a person doing this for us and were able to retask them on more useful functions like reporting and analysis because this workload was no longer a concern! PO is SUPER effective at managing cost savings. Obviously Savings Plans are easy but the way they manage RIs enables us to save super high dollar amounts and ALSO to have a low time commitment. It's hard to explain but PO manages commits on cadence that eventually only has a 30 day renewal. That is, you can get 3 year discounts but only effectively have a 30 day commit to AWS. Trust me, I do not work there and have no reason to lie. It really does work that way. Lastly, integrating PO into our stack was super easy. They prebuild the CF templates for you and have a bunch of detailed reporting so your accounting/finance folks can handle the "true up" to the books. It's super easy to make this all work from both a human and technical perspective. All in all, you're nuts if you're not using PO. If you don't save at least 30% on your EC2 costs, you will save money. If you already save that much, you'll instead save a lot of time not having to babysit your RI commits. In either case, you win.