ParkMyCloud

What do you like best?

It is super useful to be able to keep an eye on cloud spend as it can so easily get out of control as resources are added. In particular, the resizing in particular has been a great source of savings.

In the past, I have worked in consultancies that helped clients with their Azure configuration and there was never a case where money wasn't being wasted. It is common to find entire virtual machines costing hundreds of dollars that are no longer being used. Having Park My Cloud keep an eye out for this kind of issue means this will never happen at my current organisation.

We track the savings made directly with the Park My Cloud dashboard, and also those where we make a manual change based on the information supplied by Park My Cloud and it paid for itself in the first month. We continue to make gains each month as our cloud use evolves.

What do you dislike?

It is tricky to set up the profile in Azure, as Azure requires you do to it on the command line, but Park My Cloud supply a script to use for this.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We are managing our cloud spend and we have saved thousands of dollars of unnecessary cost.