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What do you like best about Kion?

Kion lets you control user access to any number of AWS, Azure and/or Google Cloud accounts. The financial portion let's people see accurate cloud spend with the ability to take action when spend reaches budgetary limits. The compliance portion lets you manage cloud security according to multiple industry baselines. With Cloud Rules and Cloud Roles, user accounts and CSP accounts can have tailor-made configurations. Updates to those rules and roles will be propogated to every applicable user and CSP account automatically.

In addition, the Kion documentation and customer service is excellent. The documentation can intuitively walk you through every function of Kion complete with pictures. Every question or trouble ticket has been answered promptly and they stick with you until things are working again.

Finally, Kion is deployed entirely through Infrastructure as Code, so changes to things are as simple as updating a Cloudformation and the code will make changes and redeploy assets as needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kion?

I've been a user of Kion nearly as long as I have been working in the cloud. Kion makes working in the cloud so much easier that trying to do things without it seems tedious. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kion solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Kion in the AWS Secret Region which has far fewer services available versus GovCloud and Commercial. Kion lets us fill most of the gaps for those missing services and usually easier the the native services themselves. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kion Overview

What is Kion?

Kion automates CloudOps with a single platform providing policy-based identity, FinOps and compliance across multi cloud (AWS, Azure, & Google Cloud). This helps enterprises reduce complexity, eliminate chaos, and minimize manual work so they can innovate faster with less risk.

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Tracey W.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Instrumental in the guidance/direction of Cloud maturity, governance, support."
They understood we were just starting our cloud jouney and had rigerous governance compliance and controls we had to meet. The took us through st...
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Thomas R.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Kion makes enterprise CSP management a breeze"
Kion lets you control user access to any number of AWS, Azure and/or Google Cloud accounts. The financial portion let's people see accurate cloud s...
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Ravi C.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Kion offer cloud enablement solutions that help us decommission over-provisioned & inactive resource"
Kion provides excellent auto-detection of usage on a real-time basis & helps us reduce our monthly expenditures from on-demand instances. Unlike...
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Kion Demo - See your cloud across your organization
See your overall cloud posture, including the big picture on compliance and budget data, and get quick access to cloud accounts from our dashboard.
Kion Demo - Get detailed financial data
See your spend by month, service, and more.
Kion Demo - Rely on 360-degree compliance
Prevent, detect, report, and remediate issues. Continuously monitor your cloud with on-demand and scheduled compliance checks.
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What do you like best about Kion?

They understood we were just starting our cloud jouney and had rigerous governance compliance and controls we had to meet. The took us through step-by-step.

We held scheduled mettings, training etc. This time was insrumental in our KION development as well as delivering to our key stkeholders as well as governance, cyber etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kion?

I cannot think of any interaction or part of the KION tool that I dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kion solving and how is that benefiting you?

The foremost problem solved was complinace for all of our cloud products, once we wrangles that we jumped into the automation that made our lives easier and delevered our compliance reequired reporting. We started to see a lot more reqeusts for cloud usage and with KION we were poised to take these projects on with the compliance and gevernance requiremetns as well as the fincance/budget needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ravi C.
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What do you like best about Kion?

Kion provides excellent auto-detection of usage on a real-time basis & helps us reduce our monthly expenditures from on-demand instances.

Unlike other cloud management platforms, it doesn't include lock-in or upfront payments, which is quite convenient for us.

It offers extensive support to all three cloud service providers (AWS, Azure & GCP) for reducing cloud expenditures & reserved instance management.

From its Dashboard, we can gain clear visibility of the infrastructure across different environments about our instances & disk utilization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kion?

Going on with the Kion platform is almost free of risk & we can opt out of their services if we are unsatisfied.

We don't have to do anything much to get it running as Kion takes care of the underlying infrastructure & its renewals.

Since our AWS infrastructure is dynamic, we have to run large workloads & Kion aids us in having a better understanding & significant cost savings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kion solving and how is that benefiting you?

Kion effectively prevents the tricky situation of cost overruns in our cloud platforms.

It helps with suitable cost-optimizing recommendations that enable us to identify potential opportunities to enforce our budget & save money.

Kion scans through our cloud environments accurately for over-provisioned and inactive resources & brings them to our attention. We can further dig in to evaluate the dependencies & handle decommission activities if it's not needed for our infrastructure.

Its customer support is very professional for onboarding on with their platform & it uses CloudFormation templates to perform hassle-free deployments in our AWS platform.

We can also generate cost-centric reports from the Kion platform to help visualize our financial management, budget constrains & suitable remediation strategies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kion?

It is a valuable solution for account access and management. I like the menus and the panel to see the cloud and that I can easily send information in the cloud. The very modern user interface is also excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kion?

I couldn't say much here because Kion is excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kion solving and how is that benefiting you?

Kion is a perfect tool that guarantees an excellent job for managing accounts in the cloud, and cloud compliance, with cost management in the cloud. It has been a very useful tool lately in our company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kion?

It's a great solution that I like to be able to use for compliance reporting and to integrate my AWS accounts for different roles. I like the functions in the cloud and that it is beneficial to centralise the reports, and all the infrastructure in the cloud is excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kion?

I can't say anything negative about Kion because I haven't encountered any problems so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kion solving and how is that benefiting you?

Kion helps a lot for our AWS accounts, giving us unique security, and we can have secure access and manage it easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kion?

I like Kion because it is an easy-to-use tool for any cloud console and can be very useful, and its design is excellent. I like the roles and management in the cloud or API; its user interface makes all the work easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kion?

I like everything, and there is no dissatisfaction at the moment, which is excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kion solving and how is that benefiting you?

It solves our problems easily by managing our AWS control accounts and is also used for other specific purposes, so it has been a great solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kion?

It is an easy tool to implement and manage. I like that you can open AWS accounts very quickly and select the roles manually, and it's also helpful to find the accounts and credentials by command. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kion?

Nothing, for now; I just ask that it be more customisable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kion solving and how is that benefiting you?

Kion helps a lot to manage our AWS accounts and role changes in the controls and obtain much faster access to manage in the cloud without any problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kion?

Today, there are more than 50 employees in the Encamp organization and over 200 customers who rely on their premier technology and expert compliance services to automate and streamline environmental compliance. Encamp is the largest third-party filer of EPCRA Tier II reports. These reports, mandated by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), legally require companies that store hazardous materials to submit an annual Tier II report. For each of those reports filed through Encamp, the company donates a tree to nonprofit organizations such as One Tree Planted, helping sequester carbon from the atmosphere and promote human and environmental health. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kion?

As this is being a start-up, looking forward to see what features will they bring Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kion solving and how is that benefiting you?

“In our early days, many team members had high-level privileges, because we needed to move very, very quickly. But this starts becoming scary when you add more folks. So, we had this need to start building out a hierarchy of our organizational accounts within AWS. One of our initiatives was being more sophisticated about how we set up our organization in AWS and then controlling access to those environments. This included keeping track of configuration across accounts and making sure these accounts were configured consistently for our purposes. We also had to ensure we were monitoring accounts consistently from a security and compliance perspective, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kion?

I use Kion on a daily basis and love the ease that it allows me to manage multiple accounts. The controls that we can use via CloudRules and RBAC Roles help us limit access when needed, and also add important CloudFormation templates to our AWS environments. I also love the ease of integration between our Active Directory and how we can use security groups in AD to control access in Kion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kion?

I have found that navigating through the 'Organization' tab can be sometimes cumbersome and it is not always easy to find an account or OU that you are searching for. Even with the search bar on the left, clicking on a Parent OU won't reveal all of the accounts as there may be another OU layer between Parent OU and accounts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kion solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our most important need is to control access to our customers for their environments and allowing engineers with different roles to have different levels of access. Kion helps us accomplish this task seamlessly and even allows us to create customized roles when necessary to provide flexibility to our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kion?

The ability for Kion to have inherited rules similar to AWS SCPs from one place, regardless of the cloud can not be spoken about enough. Having one "single pane of glass" for GCP, AWS and Azure is incredible and Kion does it the right way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kion?

Kion has a steep learning curve, and while it takes some time to get to understand the nuances of the product, once you think you get through the curve, they release new features that you have to learn (not that new features is a bad thing). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kion solving and how is that benefiting you?

Kion has provided me with the ability to manage federation into all of the CSPs, Compliance scanning for all CSPs, Budgeting and Forecasting for all CSPs, and because of this we can manage what would have normally taken 4 other tools in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mahi S.
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What do you like best about Kion?

Simple to use UI. Cloud Governance is easy to implement. Love the API first approach which helped us to develop custom automation processes for access managementment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kion?

Need to improve the app performance further. Waiting for the event-driven architecture to better improve performance. Need better automation processes for budget management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Kion:

Would strongly recommend to other users who are early in their cloud journey to adopt kion and build a cloud governance strategy for their organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kion solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cloud governance, Access management, and budget management. It helps 1000+ users in our org to login into AWS accounts and perform their day-to-day actions. Also helps with account provisioning automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.