Research shows that getting engineers to take action on cost opportunities is the most difficult challenge for companies, as they are not accustomed to considering spend and have other priorities. That’s where we come in. OptScale enables companies to realize FinOps adoption potential by engaging engineers in FinOps and cost savings. They can even send commands and receive alerts via Slack, so they don’t have to learn to use yet another tool.
* FinOps Report, 2021
With OptScale, you benefit from a simple mechanism to visualize and plan shared resource usage. Your engineers schedule resource acquisition, acquire and release a resource or cluster. You can set a limit to define how many engineers are able to use the same resources concurrently.
You can use OptScale as your sole cloud cost management tool, or in combination with other tools.
Speaking engineer’s language is key to engaging them.
With OptScale, you can speak their language. Monitor and manage resource groups such as; clusters, jobs, application kubernetes clusters, and others. Define resource owners, visualize expenses, and share clusters with other engineers easily.
OptScale tracks cloud regions & availability and provides an API to recommend the best resource configuration for automated jobs and scripts. Integrate with your current automation, and leverage spot and reserved instances. Your resources will be provisioned in the optimal cloud region, from a price and performance perspective.
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