CoreStack's standout features include cost optimization for RDS and EC2, actionable recommendations, and a unified interface for multi-cloud environments. Users benefit from operational efficiency, enhanced reporting, and compliance improvements. It effectively identifies idle resources, offers savings plans, and improves customer satisfaction by increasing visibility and providing regular governance reports. Time savings in reporting and improved customer experiences are noted advantages, alongside consistent FinOps and governance across multiple accounts.
- "Currently, I think CoreStack is the best FinOps tool available in the market, which is why we are using it."
- "Mainly through improved cost visibility and optimization with CoreStack, we have achieved a good ROI, and for some customers we were able to achieve more than forty percent cost savings by identifying unused and idle resources in their accounts, leading to significant cost savings after we completed the cleanup of those resources."
- "My advice for others looking into using CoreStack is that anyone who is looking to optimize their workload cost for public cloud services should start using CoreStack because of the reports and granularity it produces to optimize cost, which will benefit them."
CoreStack requires improvement in reporting periods, particularly in cost optimization recommendations. It should reconsider marking machines with minimal CPU utilization for deletion. Segregating reserved instances across accounts is needed for better cost allocation. Enhancements in billing operations and security features are in demand. Automation at the operations level could enhance visibility for engineers. Multi-tenancy features need fortification, and user-specific permissions should be refined. Despite good governance and security features, stability improvements are essential.
- "I believe CoreStack already has very good features in the governance and security parts, but stability can definitely be improved."
- "I noticed that some of the cost optimization reports generated potential savings while considering systems that have only maximum utilization of 1% or 2%. The recommendations made in CoreStack to delete a machine have the potential to generate major cost savings, but such machines should not be listed for deletion if they have maximum CPU utilization of 1%."
- "I give it an eight because, as I mentioned, a few things from the billing operations need to be added, and we need more security features, particularly since the market is increasingly demanding better security tools for cloud management platforms, including cloud security posture assessments."
