What do you like best about the product?

Starting off -- CAST is extremely easy to install and configure. They offer scripted install, Helm charts, and Terraform modules which made it very simply to integrate them into our existing cluster bootstrapping process.

Once deployed you instantly are met with dashboards that wil give you valuable insights into spend, usage, and security and enacting cost savings is as simple as clicking a button.

From that moment on they do all of the legwork in node selection and ensure that your nodegroups are running at the most efficient price-point and are scaling as-needed. Say goodbye to manually provisioning and manging node groups for good.

Support has aslo been a high-point when working with CAST. In the rare occasion that we have encountered any issues they have been extraordinarily responsive and dedicate resources to assist with our problem until it is resolved, no matter the time of day or night.

What do you dislike about the product?

The primary difficulty that we have encountered with CAST is cost justification. The tool costs significantly less money than it saves (and is by far a net positive), however, we find ourselves having to explain to leadership why our largest cost is now CAST. Ultimately this is easy to explain, it is jsut something that we encounter often.

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

CAST handles our node selection and provisioning for us entirely. We just install cast in clusters and walk away and can trust that our costs are as low as possible and that our node provisioning will run smoothy.