Cloudshot Reviews

Greetings,

First and foremost! Those Hyperscalers should have built something like this into their system, but it seems those guys necessarily want to keep their system complex. But then we wouldn't have had this gem :) Thank you Sudeep. 5 Tacos for you.

I am also this 5 Tacos review to defend this product from one of the 1 Taco review. What is written in that single 1 taco review is incorrect and seems to be a misunderstanding, or maybe a lack of misunderstanding! I created an IAM users with 'ReadOnlyAccess' Policy and its working just fine.

The problem is, if you want automation and want to automatically deploy servers/systems/resources to your AWS account using CloudShot directly, then you have to give it "AdministratorAccess" Policy. And even then, you can create specific policies for specific use cases and connect those policies instead of giving full Admin Access!

To CloudShot/Sudeep,

Can we have an unlimited Cloud Account Access instead of the 1 Account Access ? I have purchased multiple codes and will use one code for one cloud account.

For e.g. Something like below
1 Cloud Account = 1 Code = 49 USD
5 Cloud Account = 3 Code = 147 USD
10 Cloud Account = 5 Code = 245 USD
Unlimited Account = 10 Codes = 499 USD

Now imagine I have to create multiple email IDs and then connect different accounts, AWS, GCP And Azure. Why can you not give an option to have 3 or 5 - unlimited account options. For e.g. You can have one Email with 3 codes so I can connect three accounts? You still get the same money but it will be convenient to us users. Do think about this.

Thank you so much for this tool!

For the price on offer, this tool is a little gem in the AppSumo portfolio. It is a must for cloud architects and engineers with endless potential for further cloud platforms. I love it!

We can't speak for the quality of the features of the platform as we decided to stop the evaluation right away while starting its use.

In order to make use of this platform you need to provide ADMIN access to your cloud infrastructure. While there is some explanation as to how to proceed, there is a total lack of information as to what the scripts do and why they are necessary.
This is not good practice and should be a red flag for just about anyone.

The developers will certainly push back because this review will look bad on the product.
Don't let that fool you: anyone "needing" to have Admin/root level access to your infrastructure for any of their products is simply not to be trusted. There are proper ways to do this. Security can't be an inconvenience to be dismissed lightly.

Refunded immediately.

This is one of the coolest products I have ever used. I agree with a fellow Sumo-ling who said "This should be built into AWS/Azure". Its that good! I could seamlessly integrate with my Azure and AWS account. Happy to see Idp and Cognito access which is way secure than giving out the id/key. A lot of my routine Cloud operations have become so easy and efficient (from hours/days to minutes). The reports (price & co) gave me the detailed break-up which I could use it right-sizing the machines. I also tried moving my data from Google Drive to S3 and it works great. Took a bit of time but I didn't care since the other apps are way too costly.
In summary, buying LTD of Cloudshot is a no-brainer. Its more value for money.
@cloudshot, are you guys integrating Linode in near future ? I see someone asked for it and I've +1 for it.
Cheers!

I'm in multiple clouds, but wanted to start Cloudshot with Azure, my main cloud provider. Setup was very easy. Creating the diagram was easy, once I realised what steps to perform. I think that a tour of features would be very good.

After my diagram was created (very quickly) I immediately noticed resources that I'd forgotten about....and have been costing me money! Time to audit my usage and resources. The estimated budget was good, although access to the real budget would be better.

Overall, a fantastic tool that I will be using a lot, as it's so useful. I also have a few clients that I'd like to introduce this to, but wonder how much pushback there will be due to security concerns. A FAQ addressing these types of objections would be useful.

Do I love it? Yes ;-)