CloudCheckr Reviews

My main use cases for CloudCheckr include cloud cost visibility and optimization, identifying idle resources, right-sizing, and cost trends. I also use it from a cloud governance perspective, for security and compliance monitoring, and as a managed service provider for reporting to end customers.

One example of how I use CloudCheckr is through our managed services provider operations where we manage public cloud environments for many end customers. One of the most impressive features is the MSP reporting, which allows us to see how much each customer is spending on the public cloud, obtain a holistic view, generate customer invoicing, create specific dashboards for individual customers based on their use case and requirements, and provide customized chargeback.

Another important aspect of my use case for CloudCheckr is identifying idle resources. We leverage CloudCheckr to identify idle resources, assist with right-sizing and over-provisioned resources, and reduce the cloud cost bill for many of our end customers and our own environment.

The best features CloudCheckr offers include out-of-the-box security and compliance check features that provide over 35 different types of compliance checks at no cost, best practice checks, and alerts. Another valuable feature is the multi-cloud overview, providing unified reporting across AWS and Azure while allowing us to create different types of dashboards based on who logs into the platform. Additionally, from an MSP standpoint, there is good ease of deployment, especially the billing and chargeback functionality for a reseller or managed services provider.

CloudCheckr has positively impacted my organization by helping us manage multiple customers and tens of thousands of resources while retaining performance and visibility due to its multi-cloud support. We do not have to worry about jumping from one platform to another, and the better MSP support is beneficial from a billing and chargeback automation standpoint. The integration in compliance helps identify missing areas within our customer environments and improves them. On average, it has helped us provide approximately 15 to 20% savings through right-sizing or idle resource elimination. These are some of the immediate cost savings our customers have experienced after implementing recommendations from the tool.

Areas where CloudCheckr can be improved include simplifying the user experience, as some areas seem complex to my teammates, who felt overwhelmed by the many dashboards available. Another area is drift analysis; there have been complaints about tracking optimization opportunities, such as how to track opportunities identified in January and whether they were resolved in February. We also noticed performance issues with very large data sets, and from an integration standpoint, more integration with third-party tools would be beneficial to the platform.

I have been using CloudCheckr for approximately five to six years.

CloudCheckr is decently stable.

CloudCheckr's scalability is impressive. It scales well for MSPs and large enterprises, allowing for management of hundreds of accounts and tens of thousands of resources while retaining performance and visibility.

I was not satisfied with the customer support from CloudCheckr. I did have some good support from a dedicated account manager or technical account manager. However, additional support took a couple of days and involved back-and-forth communication that did not yield the technical input we needed. The additional support ended up taking longer than expected, with responses that did not meet our need for detailed and technical assistance.

Before CloudCheckr, we were using native cloud consoles and cost tools such as AWS Cost Explorer and Azure Cost Management. We switched to CloudCheckr because it is a more holistic, centralized cost reporting platform across multiple public cloud providers, offers better MSP support from a billing and chargeback standpoint, and includes substantial automation to generate customer invoicing. The security and compliance feature within the platform was also extremely beneficial.

The setup process is quick and straightforward. In many use cases, integration of cloud accounts is done in under two hours, which is quite good. Initial client creation can take one or two hours with guided setup. Some scenarios, such as creating policies or custom dashboards, take longer, but overall, the setup process is straightforward.

I have seen a return on investment of 100%, with significant cost avoidance and measurable savings within the first few months of deployment. There were fewer resources needed to monitor and manage the customer environment from a costing standpoint. We could implement many end customers, and with the automated customer invoicing feature, we significantly reduced the burden related to Excel sheets and pricing.

Pricing is feature-tiered under the MSP licensing, and I would say the pricing was quite competitive and fair. It was neither inexpensive nor too costly compared to competition, yet it provides good value.

The features of CloudCheckr I have not mentioned yet include the cost-saving recommendations, which are quite actionable.

For a specific example of a customer where CloudCheckr's recommendations led to 15 to 20% savings, we recently onboarded a customer from a managed services standpoint who had multiple accounts in different cloud providers, AWS and Azure, accumulated over the years due to various acquisitions. There was initially no oversight of who was provisioning resources, what it cost each business unit, or where resources were deployed. Once we leveraged CloudCheckr and connected it to those different customer environments, we created a single dashboard to obtain a holistic view of their spending across AWS and Azure, allowing our team to save time and effort by reducing the need to go through each individual account. For the end customer, we identified idle and unused resources, categorizing those not used for the last 60 days. We identified all those resources, including public IPs, virtual machines, and storage. We also found many over-provisioned resources being utilized at only 30 to 40%. By leveraging the right-sizing recommendation, we successfully right-sized those resources, and the customer ended up saving roughly 20 to 25% using the platform.

My advice for others looking into using CloudCheckr includes configuring tags and the chargeback mechanism early during onboarding to the platform, creating automated alerts for budget increases, aligning with security posture checks and compliance frameworks, and ensuring custom dashboards are created for different stakeholders accessing the platform. I would rate CloudCheckr a seven on a scale of one to ten.

My main use case is monitoring my cloud costs, security posture, and checking how my costs are aligning with actual activities and how they can be optimized on a day-to-day basis.

The main use case is around cost optimization, governance, and ensuring compliance is maintained. CloudCheckr is used to identify idle resources, oversized instances, and opportunities for savings through right-sizing and reservations.

In my day-to-day work, most of my time is spent ensuring compliance and preventing overspending. Our costs are optimized properly, and the major use case involves identifying and ensuring that all finances are used effectively and efficiently while aligning with overall application needs and growth prospects.

CloudCheckr is an excellent tool overall. The feature that stands out is how it enables cost savings and efficiency. The cost visibility and reporting are really valuable, and the dashboard is informative and enables good decision-making. The actionable recommendations are beneficial, such as the auto-generated suggestions for optimization. The built-in security and compliance checks, along with scheduled reports, save a lot of manual effort and keep both engineering and finance teams aligned.

CloudCheckr has been great and has helped solve problems by ensuring proper compliance. It does not just show data; it highlights actionable items for cost savings, security improvements, and compliance gaps. Scheduled reports are received on a regular basis according to defined schedules, providing more insights that can be shared with leadership and finance teams to ensure alignment. This results in a better picture where everyone is aligned and focused on growth while effectively and efficiently using financial resources.

CloudCheckr has enabled an average cost saving of approximately 25% from the last year, and this occurred while also increasing the scale of production. It has significantly reduced manual efforts that would otherwise be spent manually checking costs, tracking where spending is occurring, and verifying whether everything is properly optimized.

Some aspects could be made more customizable, such as the dashboard and UI. Some features may be too advanced and may have a learning curve, potentially lacking customization. Overall, CloudCheckr is a powerful and feature-rich tool with abundant metrics.

The primary suggestion would be to add more customization levels. Since the platform is very feature-rich, the UI may feel overwhelming sometimes. Fixing this would be beneficial. More customizable reports and configurations would be an improvement. The learning curve could be simplified, but once familiar with the tool, it is excellent.

I have been using CloudCheckr for two years.

CloudCheckr is quite scalable and can be scaled across multiple cloud environments and multiple accounts.

I would rate customer service as excellent. Sometimes support needs to be reached, but they are very responsive and supportive.

Negative

Before CloudCheckr, I relied on AWS native tools only, such as Cost Explorer. I needed more granularity and in-depth cost analysis, which is why I switched to this solution. The goal also included extending to multi-cloud to some extent.

As shared earlier, there has been approximately a 25% decrease in optimized spending compared to roughly one year ago. Overall, the level of operations has increased with this solution. It has reduced manual efforts that would otherwise be spent checking where spending is occurring and ensuring all teams use resources correctly. This part has been eliminated and has saved significant effort while ensuring all teams remain aligned at all times.

The pricing and licensing are quite convenient. I am not certain about the exact costs involved because another team handles that aspect. Overall, the pricing was quite convenient and represented good value for money.

Other tools such as CloudHealth and Apptio were assessed. They are good and quite strong, but CloudCheckr offered a better balance between cost, security, and compliance in one platform, which is why this solution was chosen.

CloudCheckr is quite good overall and does not need much improvement. Some aspects could be made more customizable, such as the dashboard and UI, and some features may be too advanced with a learning curve while lacking customization. Overall, CloudCheckr is a powerful and feature-rich tool with abundant metrics.

CloudCheckr is an excellent product and a solid cloud management platform that effectively combines cost optimization, security, and compliance. I definitely recommend it to organizations seeking in-depth cost analysis, cost optimization, management of multiple accounts, or maturity in cloud governance. I rate this product a 9 out of 10.

A quick, specific example of how I use CloudCheckr in my workflow is that first thing every morning, I check the cost anomaly alerts. CloudCheckr flags anything that looks out of the ordinary overnight. For instance, if a service that normally costs $50 suddenly spikes to $500, I want to know about that immediately. Those anomaly alerts are really useful because they break down what moved and why across all our accounts. That's usually where I catch things such as someone leaving a test environment running over the weekend or a new service getting deployed without any cost controls.

My main use cases include the security checks I review weekly rather than daily. CloudCheckr runs over 550 best practice checks and flags misconfigurations. I go through those with the security team on a Friday.

In my opinion, the best features CloudCheckr offers include cost anomaly detection, which is probably what I'd miss most if it disappeared tomorrow. It's always on and always watching. I don't have to remember to check things because it tells me when something needs my attention. The advanced grouping is also really powerful. You can slice costs by team, by service, by tag, or whatever you need. That's what makes the monthly chargeback report actually useful rather than just a wall of numbers.

Regarding advanced grouping, we group primarily by tag first. Every resource at Freshworks is supposed to be tagged with a team name and a project name. I'll set up a grouping that says show me all costs grouped by team tag, then within each team break it down by service.

CloudCheckr has positively impacted our organization as we've cut AWS spend by around 25% over two years. Some of that came from reserved instance recommendations, some from right-sizing, and some from cleaning up resources that should have been deleted long ago. I'd put that at roughly $400,000 in savings over that period.

The impact was measured through CloudCheckr's reports, as it actually has a built-in savings tracking feature which makes this straightforward. Every time it surfaces a recommendation, whether that's a right-sizing suggestion or another optimization, the savings are tracked and attributed.

CloudCheckr could enhance its Azure support, as it honestly feels an afterthought. We have some workloads on Azure and the experience compared to AWS is noticeably worse.

Additionally, there's a lot going on in the interface and it takes a while to figure out where things live.

I've been using CloudCheckr for two years now. I brought it in myself and was the one who pushed for it after I spent an embarrassing amount of time manually trying to figure out why our AWS bill jumped one month.

CloudCheckr is stable and rock solid. Over two years, there has been minimal downtime. Data comes through reliably. The only thing I would flag is that sometimes dashboards load slowly if I'm querying a big date range across many accounts, but that's a minor issue.

There are no issues with CloudCheckr's scalability.

I previously used AWS Cost Explorer, which is fine for basic use cases, but once you're managing multiple accounts with dozens of teams, it just doesn't cut it.

I've seen a return on investment, as the savings are concrete, measurable, and they show up directly in the AWS bill.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing reflects that it uses custom pricing based on your cloud spend, which is pretty standard for this category. I won't pretend it's cheap, but we've saved multiples of what we pay for it, so the conversation with finance is straightforward.

Before choosing CloudCheckr, I evaluated other options and looked at Apptio Cloudability and IBM Turbonomic. Cloudability was decent, but CloudCheckr had better security and compliance checks bundled in, which meant we weren't buying a separate tool for that.

CloudCheckr is deployed in my organization as pure SaaS. You connect it to your AWS accounts through IAM roles and it begins ingesting data.

The cloud provider I use with CloudCheckr is AWS primarily. That's where about 90% of our infrastructure lives.

I did not purchase CloudCheckr through the AWS Marketplace. We went direct and didn't come through the marketplace.

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate CloudCheckr a seven. The AWS cost management side is probably a nine honestly. However, the Azure limitations drag it down and I think there are a few areas where it hasn't kept pace with how fast the cloud space evolves. It's still the best tool I've used for this job, though it's not perfect. I rate this review a seven overall.

My main use case for CloudCheckr is for cloud services, as we upload our data to cloud services.

The best feature that CloudCheckr offers, even though I don't use it very often, is that it is easy to use.

What makes CloudCheckr easy for me to use is its intuitive interface.

CloudCheckr has impacted my organization positively by making things easier and saving time, approximately three hours a week.

An area where CloudCheckr can be improved is pricing.

There are no other improvements needed for CloudCheckr that I haven't mentioned.

I have been using CloudCheckr for two years.

CloudCheckr is stable.

CloudCheckr's scalability is fantastic.

The customer support for CloudCheckr is fantastic.

I did not previously use a different solution before CloudCheckr.

I purchased CloudCheckr through the AWS Marketplace.

CloudCheckr is deployed in my organization in a public cloud.

My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

I have not yet seen a return on investment.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is fantastic.

Before choosing CloudCheckr, I did not evaluate other options.

I would advise others looking into using CloudCheckr that it is a fantastic product. I give this product a rating of ten out of ten.

We use the solution primarily to look at Azure consumption data for our clients.

The product gives some recommendations on how cost can be optimized based on usage. We take those recommendations and have discussions with our clients on what they can potentially do to achieve cost savings.

The dashboards were useful for visualizing where the cost and consumption are allocated. The recommendation section is pretty helpful. It provides an analysis of where cost and consumption can be adjusted.

We are not happy with the product’s reporting capabilities. We are planning to change the solution. The security compliance feature doesn’t give much data because CloudCheckr has done a majority of its development on AWS. The majority of our clients are on Microsoft Azure. There are a lot of features and information available for Amazon, but not for Azure. The tool wasn't meeting our expectations.

The reporting and analytic capabilities are very limited. There's no ability to do scheduled email reports. The report could only be sent to a single email address. The tool was not very usable. We had multiple clients and tasks to work with.

I have been using the solution for roughly two years.

I rate the tool’s stability an eight out of ten. We haven’t had any usability issues.

I rate the tool’s scalability an eight out of ten.

Initially, our experience with support was not that good. Eventually, there was a discussion with our account representative, and we got some additional support to help us through some of the issues we were having. It is easy to create and submit cases. It was also easy to get updates on cases. It's pretty simple.

The solution has an online portal that we can use to submit cases. However, the type of responses we got back, and the level of assistance from the support persons reviewing our cases were not what we needed. We needed a little bit more in-depth help, which the team couldn’t provide. We had to go directly to our account representative to get the right response.

Neutral

The initial setup was pretty straightforward. It was standard. I rate the ease of setup a seven out of ten. The deployment was very quick. We can have the tool up and running within a couple of hours. Adding clients or tenants to the tool takes 45 to 50 minutes as long as we have the developer access to the tenant to set up the configuration. A cloud architect and I deploy the solution.

We do not do any maintenance for the tool. It is a SaaS tool. It is hosted by the provider. However, the data is not stored by the tool. The tool reads data from different Azure tenants that we configure on it. The data isn't written anywhere. It's just read from the Microsoft tenant.

The price depends on the actual Azure consumption and what we feed into it. The cost is on par with other providers.

CloudBolt seems to have better reporting. It has a lot more flexibility in reporting. The support is so far better than what CloudCheckr offers.

Overall, I rate the tool a six out of ten.

We have used different cloud services when using CloudCheckr CMx High Security, such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Services, and Azure.

We are using CloudCheckr CMx High Security for cost management and optimization.

The most valuable feature of CloudCheckr CMx High Security is granular reporting. Additionally, the user interface is easy to use.

CloudCheckr CMx High Security is complex. There are a lot of menus, and if you do not know what you are looking for you can get lost. However, the interface is self-explanatory. It's easy to understand where to go to get what you want.

I have been using CloudCheckr CMx High Security for approximately five years.

CloudCheckr CMx High Security is highly stable.

Most of our clients are small, medium, and large-sized companies.

We have over 10,000 people using the solution in the company.

We work very closely with the support team from CloudCheckr CMx High Security and they are very good.

I have worked in the cost-management tools from many cloud providers, such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Services, and Azure.

CloudCheckr CMx High Security has a lot more detail than the native cloud service cost-management tools. If you want an enterprise-grade solution, CloudCheckr CMx High Security would be a good fit. If you want something simple, out of the box, then you can use the cloud service's native tools.

The initial setup for CloudCheckr CMx High Security in our company was straightforward.

The solution is reasonably priced.

We have a team that does the administration for our company and depending on the size of the client's company there can be a large or small team.

I rate CloudCheckr CMx High Security a ten out of ten.

We had not been evaluating the spending for our group. So we used CloudCheckr to evaluate what we had running and how much it cost to turn off what we did not need.

The solution is scalable for our purposes.

I found it less useful. My group took the data and organized it with Tableau. I used CloudCheckr to verify what I was seeing in Tableau. The solution must improve its user interface.

I have been using the solution for two weeks.

I did not see any instability. I rate the product’s stability a ten out of ten.

I rate the scalability an eight out of ten.

Tableau is more useful than CloudCheckr.

People wanting to use the solution must check the documentation and be prepared for a learning curve. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

We are a managed service provider, and we were looking for a product that could give us clarity in understanding the billing and security aspects of our customers' cloud. We have a lot of customers on cloud infrastructure, so we needed a tool that could help us identify the open vulnerabilities and issues from a security perspective for all the clouds. We needed a single dashboard where we could check what's going on and what's wrong in terms of the security and billing aspects, and CloudCheckr CMx High Security provides us with all of those.

The best feature I like about CloudCheckr CMx High Security is its simplicity. I love that it's not rocket science to use the solution. Even if you're not familiar with the cloud, you can easily figure out how to use CloudCheckr CMx High Security.

You can use AWS, you can use Azure, and you can use GCP with the solution because the integration is quite simple. You can also use multi-cloud with it, and you could see the billing part. You'll have complete visibility into your cost which I love about the solution.

I also love that data on any security issues and vulnerabilities are available on the go with CloudCheckr CMx High Security. You don't need to do anything different. Just run the scan and you'll have all these open findings in the tool, in terms of the priority level, so if it's critical, it will tell you, "It's critical," and you need to fix it right away.

What needs to be improved in CloudCheckr CMx High Security is integration. All the clouds are going quite fast, for example, all the cloud providers: Microsoft, Google, etc. CloudCheckr CMx High Security is good with AWS, no doubt about it, but with Azure and Google Cloud, I find that the solution is slow in that direction. If the vendor planned for CloudCheckr CMx High Security to be automated just for AWS, then it does make sense. If not, if the vendor is also targeting good integration with Google and Microsoft, then CloudCheckr CMx High Security integration needs improvement, in particular, it has to be faster. At the moment, its integration with Azure is not as good as its integration with AWS. With GCP, integration is nowhere.

What I'd like to see in the next release of CloudCheckr CMx High Security is from a security perspective because I've been working on independent security tools as well, so the future roadmap should include all the different kinds of compliances and vulnerabilities. Think about it from a FinTech company's perspective where there are different kinds of compliances around the data, infrastructure hardening, etc. If CloudCheckr CMx High Security could include all that, and it would have everything in terms of security in just a single solution, that's what I'd like to see in the future.

I never found any issue with CloudCheckr CMx High Security in terms of stability. I didn't even notice any downtime. For me, the solution has been stable, so far.

As my company is a managed service provider, it uses CloudCheckr CMx High Security with a lot of customers. More than sixty customers are using the solution, and I never faced any issues in terms of the solution becoming slow, not working, or hanging. It's a pretty scalable solution.

I never had any issues with CloudCheckr CMx High Security, so I've not been in touch with a technical support engineer.

My company decided to use CloudCheckr CMx High Security rather than a different solution because it's the best in the segment. In terms of flexibility, particularly on AWS, it's a perfect tool, and you don't need to worry about it at all. The functionality you're getting out of CloudCheckr CMx High Security on AWS is on another level, and none of the other tools could provide that. You can check any competitor, but CloudCheckr CMx High Security on AWS provides a lot of value.

The initial setup for CloudCheckr CMx High Security was quite simple. It was straightforward. Deployment took less than two hours. It was pretty fast.

I'm seeing ROI from CloudCheckr CMx High Security. It's worth the money, no doubt about it.

A license is needed to use CloudCheckr CMx High Security, but because we are a managed service provider, the price of the license would vary. It depends on the type of cloud users we have, for example, it would be some type of percentage or monthly billing, etc.

I'm currently using CloudCheckr CMx High Security. I'm using the SaaS product and that's the latest version. It's deployed on the public cloud, particularly on AWS.

My company has different teams using the solution, and the number of users of CloudCheckr CMx High Security is around eighty, at the moment.

My advice to someone who wants to use CloudCheckr CMx High Security is that it would depend on the use case. If you are on AWS, you don't need to even think about it. Just go ahead with using the solution because there's no better tool in that segment than CloudCheckr CMx High Security.

For CloudCheckr CMx High Security on AWS, I'm rating it a ten out of ten. My use case for the solution was mostly on AWS plus GCB, but on Google Cloud, it doesn't give much value. On AWS, it's really good.

My company is a customer/partner of CloudCheckr CMx High Security.

I primarily use the solution for my day-to-day operations. I use it for cloud management. 

The billing feature is great.

It is easy to set up.

The solution is mostly stable. 

The scalability is great.

It offers excellent technical support.

The performance of the tool really needs to be improved. It's a little bit slow.

In some cases, we only have limited options, which is disappointing. 

I've used the solution for a couple of years. It's likely been more than two at this point. 

While it is pretty stable. The performance is slow. There are no bugs or glitches. It just needs to perform a bit better. 

The solution scales well. If a company would like to expand it, it can do so. 

I've worked with technical support in the past and they were helpful and responsive. I was quite happy with their level of service. 

The implementation process is quite simple and straightforward. It's not difficult at all. 

I cannot recall how long the implementation process was. 

I don't pay for it or deal with licensing and therefore can't speak to whether or not it is expensive. 

We are both a partner and an end-user.

I'm not sure which version of the solution we're using. 

I'd recommend the solution. It's a good tool and pretty simple to use. It's a good tool to explore and do the cloud management stuff with.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

I primarily am using this for multiple customers on Azure and AWS. I use it to do the monthly billing, optimization, and other stuff like that.

One of the most useful aspects of the solution is to be able to get my monthly snapshot and get the monthly invoicing. I'm able to customize the invoicing, based on the requirements we have. 

I can use this solution for doing site recommendations and other similar tasks. 

CloudCheckr is filled with useful features, that help us learn and to deliver the best recommendations on the data we have.

The initial setup is straightforward.

CloudCheckr can be very slow sometimes. It's tough to extract or, rather, it takes time to extract information when the data itself is large. It's also slow if you're trying to do multiple things at once. The solution needs to work better with larger capacities of data.

We'd like more sizing data. Right now, we only are able to check CPU. Recommendations should be driven based on performance data beyond just CPU - such as memory, DevSkyOps, etc.

I've been using the solution for two and a half to three years or so. It's been a while.

The stability so far has been very good. We haven't witnessed any bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable for the most part.

The solution can't seem to successfully handle large amounts of data. If you have too much information, or you try to execute too many tasks at once, the system slows down by quite a bit.

I'm not sure of how many of our staff are actually on the system or have access to it at this time.

We've dealt with technical support in the past. They're good. We're satisfied with the level of service we're provided. They seem to be knowledgeable and helpful. 

We've found the initial setup to not be overly complex. It's pretty straightforward. We didn't face any issues or roadblocks.

We have an internal team that handles maintenance.

The pricing of the product is fair. It's not exorbitantly expensive. We believe it to be quite reasonable.

We integrate this solution for our clients. I'm not sure if we have a specific business arrangement with the solution, however.

I would recommend the solution to other organizations. It's a good tool, for the most part. For billing and invoicing for class optimization, and tasks like that, it's quite useful. 

Overall, I would rate the solution at a seven out of ten. I'd rate it higher, were it not for the performance issues we've experienced when dealing with bigger amounts of data.