Cloudability Reviews

Usually, it is used by large companies with a high amount of cloud spend. Something like more than 5 million dollars a year. And, usually, we face multi-cloud challenges.

The list of optimizations that are proposed by Cloudability has been most effective in reducing cloud expenditure for our customers. Another one is the capacity to deep dive into the consumption and be able, in a very easy way, to analyze your issues or peaks of traffic, something like that, to explain what you should investigate.

We had a multi-cloud environment using both AWS and Azure to keep track of costs in one place. We used Cloudability to understand and manage the spending across both clouds effectively.

We use Cloudability to monitor costs and track the expenses of our subscriptions.

We used Cloudability for cloud cost and usage management. It normalized data and gave us custom cost metrics that enhanced the dashboards and reports to answer the real questions we needed to answer to run the FinOps practice.

The reporting and analytics section of Cloudability helped us with cost optimization by allowing "drill down" quickly, identifying anomalies, and monitoring usage patterns.  I accessed the system (as did others) daily to answer questions and make informed decisions. I frequently used the top rightsizing recommendations and monitored them continuously, sharing relevant information with the engineering teams for action.

In our organization, we operate on two different cloud platforms, namely AWS and Azure. We use Cloudability to manage costs and optimize resources across both clouds efficiently. This consolidates all cost-related information into a single platform, eliminating the need to check costs separately on Azure and AWS.

The convenience extends to our team's internal process, known as ITAC, which manages the financial aspects of these accounts. By integrating these accounts into Solution X, we streamline our operations and leverage the platform to update our product, view data, and generate reports.

For in-depth analysis, we focus on various functions within AWS, such as EC2 to Lambda. Cloudability allows us to monitor and understand Cloud Memory Metrics and Average Issue on a single platform.

One of the standout features of the solution is its groups and views functionality.

What I really like is the centralized dashboard, and that we can customize it according to the customer's needs. The support from IBM is also fantastic.

We use the product to see the cloud costs. It helps our business, financial, and technology teams. 

Cloudability has given us more visibility and insights that guide our decisions. 

In my previous company, we used Cloudability for a lot of purposes, including reports related to cloud costs and reports based on resources. The solution was also useful for driving through the management groups to find what the cost is for each account, so the main use of Cloudability was related to costs and tagging purposes. In my previous company, we used to check if the resources were tagged so that they would appear in Cloudability, which helped us with the creation of the cost reports accurately.

The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to create reports and dashboards. Users can create dashboards in Cloudability by resource groups and accounts, which is very useful, especially considering its tagging features. Using tags in Cloudability, a user could create a report and dashboard if there was one account, and in that, there are multiple teams.

We are just using it for Azure and Google, as we might have different Cloud vendors and what we're trying to do here is right-sizing so that it can send us reports for all the subscriptions, for example, in Azure. We'd like it to tag the information and all the costs related to the information. That way, we can do the right sizing report from there, and we can rate it. 

The solution has definitely improved our organization and how it functions.

What it does is it will give us a brief report. In two weeks and for subscriptions, we can see, okay how much the cost has been increasing, and we can limit it there. We can check it and we can find out who has put up more VMs or who has spun up their sources and who is doing what. We can make a report and we can check with them if they're really using it or not. We can send the reports and if the chargeback is missing, we can highlight that also and we can correct it. Therefore, it can give us some detailed information about our business that we can go through.

We're able to see reports that can show us areas where compute costs can be lowered, where we're wasting money, etc. It gives us great visibility across our teams and processes.