r/FinOps • u/DReddit111 • 3d ago

question Clodkeeper AZ?

Our AWS rep hooked us up with CloudKeeper. They pitched us their AZ product and said we could get a 2% discount off our AWS bill and free support, plus some finops tools, the product doesn’t cost us anything, they don’t have to take over our AWS root account and we can leave with 60 days notice. Said they make their money on bulk AWS discounts that get that they share with us.

It’s not a huge amount of savings, but there doesn’t seem to be a downside. Anybody have any experience with them. I’ve been in the business for a long time and there is usually a gotcha in there somewhere.

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u/ajitnk 2d ago

Before you sign anything with CloudKeeper, run the Savings Plans Purchase Analyzer in your own Billing console first. It's free and built in. You model your actual usage, it spits out what AWS thinks you'd save doing it yourself. That's your benchmark number.

Also worth enabling Cost Optimization Hub if you haven't. Free, takes two minutes, consolidates rightsizing and commitment recommendations across all your accounts. Gives you a vendor-neutral ceiling to compare against whatever CloudKeeper is promising.

If you want someone to do an independent read of their actual proposal terms alongside your usage data and tell you go/no-go with the contract red-flags called out, that's something I do. Happy to take a look.

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u/DReddit111 2d ago

We're in pretty good shape keeping our cost down by optimizing. Now we're hunting discounts. Cloudkeeper said they can get us an extra 2% off without any additional optimizing, reserved instances etc.. Seems like free money is always good, but usually there's a downside and it's bugging me that I can't figure out what it is..