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Stacklet for Cloud Custodian Users
Double Productivity. Unlock Greater Visibility. Operate at Scale.
Stacklet is an enterprise-grade Cloud Custodian alternative that boosts productivity, enhances visibility, and reduces risk.
Overview
Enterprise Grade Cloud Custodian
Stacklet offers advanced capabilities and an automated, managed experience built on Cloud Custodian, enabling organizations to double staff productivity, boost visibility, and ensure efficient, risk-free operations. Stacklet simplifies and automates policy lifecycle management at scale across multiple cloud accounts and regions while helping drive faster actions from engineering teams. Stacklet helps you unlock higher visibility, cutting governance times by up to 80% with a real-time cloud asset database. Additionally, Stacklet eliminates the overhead of managing the tool and significantly decreases API calls.
2X
Staff Productivity
50%
Reduced Cloud Bill
80%
Less Time Reporting
6X
Faster time to Value
10X
Policy Retrieval
Double Staff Productivity.
Optimized Policy Engine & Console
Stacklet simplifies and speeds up policy deployment, execution, and observability at scale across multiple accounts, regions, and cloud platforms through automated policy management with a centralized, optimized execution engine and console.
Cut Governance Reporting Time by up to 80%
Real-time Cloud Asset Inventory
Stacklet AssetDB enables faster insights for more effective cost control, resource security, and compliance. Offering a real-time inventory of cloud resources, costs, and configurations in a ‘select * from cloud’ experience using SQL, and now, Natural Language with Stacklet’s AI capabilities.
Reduce Operational Costs & Risk
Automated Managed Experience
Stacklet eliminates the need for constant monitoring, hosting, troubleshooting, and maintenance of Cloud Custodian, freeing up your team’s time and resources. Stacklet significantly reduces API calls in the environment while speeding policy execution by tens of thousands of dollars per year. By providing a managed, automated experience, Stacklet ensures up-to-date practices, stability, and continuity in your cloud operations.
Unlock Cloud Savings of up to 50%
Advanced FinOps capabilities
Stacklet offers advanced FinOps capabilities, workflows, and out of the box policies that enable you to cut up to 50% of your cloud bill by optimizing resource utilization, reducing waste, and enhancing cost-efficiency across your cloud environment.
Drive Actions Faster. Improve Engineer Productivity
Intelligent Communications
Stacklet improves engineer engagement, drives action, and reduces alert fatigue by automating the aggregation, contextualization, and sharing of non-compliant resources. Additionally, Stacklet ensures communications are sent through the proper engineer-friendly channels by offering advanced third-party integrations with platforms like Slack, Jira, ServiceNow, and others.
Comparison
Comparing Cloud Custodian and Stacklet Platform
Cloud Custodian
Stacklet
Standard Policy Language
Automated Remediation
Multi Cloud Support
Cloud Asset Inventory (AssetDB)
Out of the box policy packs
Dashboards and Workflows
Potential and Realized Savings Tracking
SSO
RBAC
Gen AI Assistant
Validated Software
Centralized Console
CLI only
Deployment at Scale
Weeks to months
Automatic in minutes
Version Upgrades
Manually setup
Automatically managed
Maintainance & Troubleshooting
Manually setup
Automatically managed
Policy Deployment
Manual, complex
One Click
Policy Discovery, Versioning & Change Mgt
Manually managed
Automatically managed
Policy Organization
Manually setup
Collections and Account Groups
Policy Execution Observability
Manually setup
Automatically managed
Multi-Account Policy Execution
Time and resource consuming
Faster with centralized and optimized engine
Account On-Boarding and Management
Manual setup
Automated
Notification Setup
CLI
UI, CLI, SDK, API
Notification Channel
Mass email (Spam), Slack
Multiple integrations, scheduling, digests, groups targeted
Notification Templates and Contextual Information
Limited
Integration with third-party tools
Limited, DIY
Out of the box, deep integrations with Slack, Jira, ServiceNow, Microsoft teams, and others
Visibility Into Notification Delivery Success
Limited, DIY
Support
Community based
Enterprise-grade with pre-defined SLAs, 24/7 by email, chat, and phone. Knowledge base and incident tracking.
Relevant Resources
Cloud Custodian Alternatives FAQs
Is Stacklet an alternative to the Cloud Custodian open-source project?
Yes. Stacklet is built by the same team behind Cloud Custodian. It adds enterprise-grade management and advanced capabilities, including a management console for multi-account deployment, real-time asset inventory, out-of-the-box policies, advanced notifications, integrated cloud cost data, and more.
Is Stacklet suitable for new Cloud Custodian users or advanced ones?
Both. For new users, Stacklet accelerates Cloud Custodian adoption by up to 6x with a streamlined, ready-to-use experience. For advanced users, Stacklet reduces operational overhead by up to 2x, helping you scale governance and FinOps more efficiently.
What value does Stacklet provide for Cloud Custodian users?
Stacklet delivers enterprise-grade governance that simplifies cloud operations—doubling productivity, reducing operational risk, and unlocking up to 50% additional cloud savings with advanced FinOps capabilities and policies.
Is it possible to create Cloud Custodian policies and import my policies into Stacklet?
Yes. Stacklet uses the same policy language as Cloud Custodian. Out of the box, it provides over 1,500 ready-to-use policy packs and enables you to create custom rules quickly across multiple accounts, allowing developers to tailor governance to their specific needs. You can also seamlessly import and manage any existing Cloud Custodian policies within Stacklet.
What kind of usage visibility and reporting does Stacklet provide for Cloud Custodian users?
Stacklet’s AssetDB supplies a real-time cloud asset inventory with SQL and AI-powered queries, making it easy to review asset data and usage patterns to support better decision-making.Users can also save run cloud custodian.
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