What do you like best about the product?

Fairly simple to install, we used it's Terraform provider -- and the team onboarding with us actively addressed some minor issues from the provider on the fly (literal next day solutions +1). Initially i was pretty skeptical and nervous about handing over scaling of EC2 to a third party - but after it was in play we saw DRAMATIC savings wherever it was installed with our many EKS clusters, and little to no impact to services hosted inside of them. The impacts we had seen were from our own installations for PVC management, that we have since rectified and its been resilient since. Totally worth checking out, highly recommended.

What do you dislike about the product?

Workload optimization seems to strip out the CPU limits, and i dont see a means in the settings for it to brick that behavior. There are annoations etc - but would prefer something also to be globally accessible to prevent that. Additionally, node sizes work fairly well - but with worker consolidation we had some workers end up with 90+ pods on them -- and with our stack the resources aren't totally defined yet causing impact to other pods on the same ec2. Restricting total IP count as an optional setting would be nice.

Problems we experienced were almost entirely due to negligence from our internal staff with kubernetes manifests however -- If those were configured properly it wouldn't even be mentioned.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Instead of static set workers or the generic cluster-autoscaler for kubernetes hosted in EKS, it provides a way to consolidate pods to ec2 so it can be more compacted. This ultimately saved us a ton of money overall.