CloudCheckr is an AWS cost and security management platform. It monitors and analyzes AWS data sources, including AWS CloudTrail logs, AWS Config, AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) flow logs, AWS CloudWatch and AWS API calls, to help users optimize AWS environment resources. CloudCheckr reached an agreement to be acquired by NetApp October 2021, and is now a NetApp brand.
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Zesty
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Zesty is a first cloud management platform from the company of the same name in Giv'atayim, Israel, that leverages AI-driven automation to increase efficiency and reduce AWS spend, with the goal of reducing it by over 50%. The platform automatically adjusts compute and storage resources to match real-time application needs, with no human input.
CloudCheckr is fantastic for those that are purely in the Cloud as it provides everything you need under one roof for a comprehensive configuration and usage monitoring tool. It has SysLog capabilities though so you can farm out the alerts into a SIEM or other log management system, so hybrid environments could also benefit from its use.
It is possible to run a big portion of our dynamic AWS infrastructure on 3-year commitment RIs, leading in considerable cost reductions that would otherwise be impossible for us to achieve. As AWS costs continue to rise, zesty has helped us save a considerable amount of money because to their expertise.
Detailed Best Practices. It's important to align your cloud to industry best practices for security and cost—it just performs better if it's used the way it's meant to be used. AWS is very flexible, and that's great when you have special requirements, but you've got to at least know when you're using something in a non-standard way so you can think through the implications.
Cost Reduction. Some recommendations are almost impossible to make at least for our setup, but many, many others are easy. We only have to log into CloudCheckr every few months and make a few changes for it to more than pay for itself.
Right-Sizing. This is related to the other points, but for some reason is separate from their cost module. The metrics it's able to pull only tell half the story, so it's good to verify it's sizing recommendations before making changes. But it does show you what instances to focus on first, and even if you choose a slightly different size to move it to, it does clearly indicate it's current size isn't appropriate. And this works both ways, if the size is too big, you can save some cash by making it smaller, but if it's too small, you want to be sure to scale up before you run into performance problems.
CloudCheckr features have a tendency to break without warning. Functionality in place for months could suddenly stop working.
CloudCheckr support often delays work on support tickets for fixing broken application functionality.
The CloudCheckr platform and documentation website often crash or experience performance degradation.
CloudCheckr cost reporting is often impacted by faulty code or broken report functionality. This can contribute to a low level of confidence in CloudCheckr's ability to deliver accurate cost reporting.
Overall, CloudCheckr covers all our AWS monitoring needs and great integration through SysLog into our SIEM to capture alerts for investigation. The reports are great and allow for an easy daily review. Small improvements could be made to the interface and better filtering in places would be good. Great product and the price is fair.
There are a few products out there that'll do an aspect or two of what CloudCheckr does, but I honestly couldn't find anything nearly as comprehensive as CloudCheckr.
Our AWS platform organization is concerned about predicting storage requirements, thus Zesty employs predictive algorithms to gradually expand storage for our SDAN EC2 instances. Zesty agents use HTTPS to communicate one-way with each other. It continually checks and assures excellent availability and performance. In our production environment, we use Zesty's manual BTRFS capability, which sends a permission request to our customer when merging or detaching EBS volumes.
