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What do you like best about the product?
1. Onboarding was easy.
2. Zesty was good at explaining the process and how their product worked.
3. And cost savings were more than anticipated.
2. Zesty was good at explaining the process and how their product worked.
3. And cost savings were more than anticipated.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. I wish they covered GCP.
2. I have no issues with anything related to what they are doing for us on AWS.
2. I have no issues with anything related to what they are doing for us on AWS.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving two issues with Zesty:
1. Better visibility into our instances and disk usage.
2. Ensuring best cost (maximize savings) with minimal effort.
1. Better visibility into our instances and disk usage.
2. Ensuring best cost (maximize savings) with minimal effort.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Trying Zesty is almost risk-free and easy to turn off if you don't like it, so I recommend at least trying it. If you decide not to continue using Zesty, you will pay a little more for AWS for a month.
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The best cost optimization solution you can find
Our costs started soaring and we needed a solution to manage costs without taking too much time from the team. Cloudivsor reduced our EC2 spend by over 40%
No effort required, fully automated, maximum savings.
It's a two-click installation, you just have to try and you will not believe how simple it is and how much money you save!
Zesty makes it very easy to reduce AWS EC2 bills
What do you like best about the product?
It's a great solution focusing on added value for customers and simplicity, making cost savings easy, taking all the nasty risks and decision making (upfront commitment, etc.) from our shoulders.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing that I specifically dislike about Zesty.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automatically getting most out of AWS EC2 cost reduction capabilities (SavingPlans and ReservedInstances).
Very easy onboarding, we got major savings on the first month with almost 0 work
What do you like best about the product?
What I like the best is Zesty commitment manager and the easiness of the onboarding process.
What do you dislike about the product?
I love everything up to now. Nothing bad to point out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are cutting down EC2 compute costs with no effort.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Just sign up!
No risk, easy to use, saves a ton
What do you like best about the product?
Zesty’s no-risk proposition caught my eye. They offer a buy-back guarantee and only charge a percentage of our savings. From there, I was even more impressed with its ability to automatically buy and sell RIs and SPs according to our needs. As promised, Zesty’s automation enabled us to save 45% on EC2
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing--Zesty’s a great product. A real win-win.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Overprovisioning resources was a real issue for our team. It was hard to predict our needs a year in advance, so our engineers preferred to provision more than necessary to accommodate scale. Zesty’s Commitment Manager scales with you, purchasing the right amount of RIs and SPs for your real-time needs. This means no more management, no more overprovisioning, and no more cloud waste.
Unique capabilities unmatched by any other means
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to get automated three years Saving Plans coverage without the commitment is huge, especially when you got an unpredictable workload spread between different regions and different instance families. It basically cuts your EC2 spendings by 40%
They also offer a 100% refund for unused commitments.
There's also a very promising Zesty Disk that can also bring unmatched capabilities. I haven't put it to the test yet, though.
They also offer a 100% refund for unused commitments.
There's also a very promising Zesty Disk that can also bring unmatched capabilities. I haven't put it to the test yet, though.
What do you dislike about the product?
The product lacks good visibility into the Saving Pans management, and the information available from AWS is also lacking
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The ability to get automated three years Saving Plans coverage without the commitment is huge, especially when you got an unpredictable workload spread between different regions and different instance families. It basically cuts your EC2 spendings by 40%
They also offer a 100% refund for unused commitments.
They also offer a 100% refund for unused commitments.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Don't overthink it. Just take it out for a spin
Seamless onboarding with good after sales support
What do you like best about the product?
I was easily able to convert the IAM permissions into terraform policies for controlled deploys, rather than using cloudformation.
Achieving what we set out to, by not having to manage savings plans to get maximum utlilisation.
Achieving what we set out to, by not having to manage savings plans to get maximum utlilisation.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not having an alternative integration option with accounts.
- I had to start the cloudformation process to get the generated IAM name and the connection ID.
- Would be nice to have another way to get this if not using cloudformation
- I had to start the cloudformation process to get the generated IAM name and the connection ID.
- Would be nice to have another way to get this if not using cloudformation
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Managed savings plans for compute
- Less time spent calculating savings plan commitment requirements.
- Increased savings
- Less time spent calculating savings plan commitment requirements.
- Increased savings
Smart & easy way for cost optimization on AWS
What do you like best about the product?
Zesty is a completely automated platform for managing RI's and the team is extremely proactive and helpful in onboarding and helping us track to achieve cost optimization.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish they have support for RDS and other managed services.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automating entire cost management & optimization of resources on AWS.
The tool is easy to implement and use.
The tool is easy to implement and use.
AWS cost savings with No Risk
What do you like best about the product?
The cost savings with 0 risk is fantastic. When I first got the cold call from them, I thought this is too good to be true; there has to be a catch. I did several reference checks and all said it was great with no downside, so I pitched it to the board. Because we work with HIPAA data, it took several weeks to clear legal and validate all of the permission sets they would be using. In the end, they are doing exactly what they committed to doing, saving us money each month. With the permissions they have, there is no access to HIPAA data or systems, so it is 100% secure and safe on that front. Additionally, their reporting system is easy to navigate and find where your costs are coming from. In my case, we were able to locate 200TB+ of S3 storage that was lost in the subfolders that we were able to delete and save $1500 each month with no cost from them as that is just part of the included reporting module.
Setup and onboarding was a breeze and exactly as advertised. If they don't save you money your don't pay anything.
Setup and onboarding was a breeze and exactly as advertised. If they don't save you money your don't pay anything.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish there were additional options to export the graphical reports and slice them differently. They are constantly adding to the reporting, so I am sure it will be there soon. Because we are mostly a Windows shop with MS SQL Enterprise being 40% of our spend, our EC2 savings is a bit lower than some of their other clients; however, we are still seeing around 35% savings on average.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Zesty has helped us control our AWS EC2 cost and provided additional visibility into where the spend is. After several months with them, we are seeing on average around a 35%+ savings each month on our EC2 spend.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Just do it, they are a great company. There is no risk and no long-term contract.
Great savings with low risk
What do you like best about the product?
We've made some massive savings to our AWS bill with low risk and not much ongoing effort on our side. Zesty has done as promised, and we're happy with the service!
What do you dislike about the product?
The dashboard is inadequate and cannot be relied upon; we still have to use AWS Cost Explorer to understand what is going on
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have reduced our EC2 spend a lot without having to make commitments or to spend time managing our reservations. We now have almost zero on-demand EC2 spend.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you can use AWS Cost Explorer to understand your EC2 usage before and after getting Zesty.
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