Kaveh Khorram
Founder and CEO
It is known that optimizing rates for your cloud spend is a high-priority task, but with so many different options available in the marketplace, it can be difficult to evaluate and find the right cloud cost optimization partner. Our goal with this article is to compare Usage AI and Zesty to see who saves the customer the most money. In this article, we will compare Usage AI to Zesty’s Commitment Manager product. Zesty also offers a disk optimization product that can be used in conjunction with Usage AI to help the customer save even more money.
Clouds:
Usage AI offers cloud cost optimization across all three major clouds: AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Zesty’s Commitment Manager only offers cost optimization on AWS.
Winner: Usage AI, since we offer the same flexible savings across all the major clouds.
Products:
Usage AI offers 30-50% cost savings via flexible commitment for the following services:
AWS EC2, EKS/ECS (Fargate), OpenSearch, ElastiCache, Redshift, RDS, and CloudFront, Azure VM, GCP VM.
Zesty offers flexible commitments for only AWS EC2.
Winner: Usage AI, since we offer flexible commitment savings for far more products.
Storage Optimization:
Usage AI does not offer a storage optimization product.
Zesty offers Zesty Disk which can help resize your disk in real time to save money.
Winner: Zesty, if EBS is a very high cost for your organization, it could be beneficial to use a mixture of Zesty for your EBS savings and Usage AI for your flexible commitment savings.
Pricing:
Usage AI charges a % of savings.
Zesty charges a % of savings.
Winner: Tie, both companies offer the same pricing model of % of savings.
Flexibility with flex commitments:
Usage AI offers 100% flexibility on its Savings Plans and RIs. Usage AI is the only company on the market to offer true full flexibility of your commitments.
Zesty only offers flexibility up to your bill from them. They use SRIs for non-EDP customers < $500k in spend, and then CRIs and SP. CRIs can be deflated, but only over a very long time horizon as they mature. With Zesty, use-cases that require significant changes to your infrastructure in a short time frame can result in major cost overruns by underutilized commitments.
Winner: Usage AI, since we offer significantly more flexibility than Zesty.
As always, it’s important to evaluate all options on the market before making a decision on who you will partner with to optimize your cloud rates. You can also run a free savings test with both Usage and Zesty to see which platform offers you the most savings.
Kaveh Khorram
Founder and CEO