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.

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.

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.