How Develeap Uses CAST AI to Automate Cloud Cost Management For Their Customers

“Our customers are usually very cost-conscious. And that’s where CAST AI comes in. It’s really simple: We install CAST AI at customer sites to give them the benefits of real-time cost visibility and automated optimization.”

Company size

100 employees

Industry

DevOps consulting

Headquarters

Tel Aviv, Israel

Combining technology expertise with cost-awareness

Develeap specializes in providing expert DevOps consulting services. The company is based in Israel and has offices around the world. It works with customers of all sizes and in all kinds of industries, from consumer electronics to healthcare to independent software vendors.

Develeap helps its customers build their DevOps roadmaps and do all the work that goes along with DevOps. This often means working with professionals in the FinOps field.

Our customers are usually very cost-conscious. And that’s where CAST AI comes in. It’s really simple: We install CAST AI at customer sites to give them the benefits of real-time cost visibility and automated optimization.
Omri Spector, Founder and CTO at Develeap

The DevOps consultancy has been aware of the need for cloud cost solutions for a long time now. Like most vendors, Develeap focused on analyzing costs, figuring out which ones were most important, and finding quick fixes or putting systems in place.

The team used an open-source tool called Karpenter to optimize EKS costs for several of their customers. While an improvement over manual optimization, it still required significant work and non-trivial configuration. Furthermore, it lacked cost visibility, which complicates ongoing work. And on top of that, Karpenter isn’t available outside of AWS.

We investigated various solutions and then came across CAST AI. We thought it was a very interesting system, very relevant to many scenarios in Kubernetes. We were impressed by it and decided to give it a test run at one of our customers – and were happy with the solution, outcomes, level of support, and communication. That’s why we decided to pursue the option of becoming partners with CAST AI.

Omri Spector, Founder and CTO at Develeap

Launching the partnership

Develeap decided to partner with CAST AI because the platform and people behind it matched all the company’s expectations for a fantastic partnership.

What we search for in a partner is the ability to:

Bring value to our customers. It needs to be a solution we’re certain of, so we can back it and fully believe in it – and CAST AI is one of them.

Give value back to our partner. If we can’t give a company any value, then we’d rather sell it instead of partnering up. We see partnership as a commitment.

Gain value from the partnership itself. In our cooperation with CAST AI, we’ve received excellent support around the technical, sales, and marketing processes.

Omri Spector, Founder and CTO at Develeap

The CAST AI team is actively engaged in the process – from sales negotiations to platform implementation, configuration, and troubleshooting.

In terms of technical support, we open a Slack channel for each and every one of our customers and work together with the CAST AI engineers. Every time a technical challenge appeared, we had people from the CAST AI team join in.

They were very responsive and open to doing work that went beyond simple configuration and actually required fixes in the product. In all those cases, they were done in hours, and the support throughout the process was just great.
Omri Spector, Founder and CTO at Develeap

“Ultimately, CAST AI is a good product and good people to do business with. When I met the team and we talked, what I found was people that I could speak to – they were clear and honest. People I can work with and count on to push me forward,” added Omri Spector.