Overview
Kion delivers cloud@scale. Kion gives leaders confidence that users can't exceed established budgets or violate regulatory standards, and makes it easy for your technical staff to get access to the resources they need via native access to the console and APIs.
Kion enables you to realize all of the value from the cloud by replacing manual labor and limited insight with automated governance and full visibility.
For more information and to request a quote or license, check out the Additional Resources section below. For enterprise pricing, contact our team at info@kion.io .
Highlights
- Account Management - Get greater visibility into your cloud resources and users. Spend less time provisioning and managing accounts.
- Budget Enforcement - Align your budget to your organizational structure and projects. Prevent cost overruns with unique enforcement actions.
- Compliance Automation - Automate compliance with robust, inheritable access policies. Take the manual effort out of ensuring adherence and restricting use of non-compliant services.
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Features and programs
Financing for AWS Marketplace purchases
Pricing
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
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EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
We do not currently support refunds, but you can cancel at any time.
Legal
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Content disclaimer
Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
Kion - new name and look. We have made updates to colors, charts, buttons, navigation, icons. Reserved Instances - Kion helps you make the most of your reserved instances by showing you how they are utilized across all of your projects and accounts. New account wizard for adding accounts to Kion that brings all of our cloud providers together. Third-Party Federation for AWS. Use third-party identity providers to federate into Kion managed AWS accounts.
Additional details
Usage instructions
Use the CloudFormation template to launch the product in one of your VPCs. Fill in all the fields that are no marked as "(Optional)". Once the installation is complete, you can get the login URL from the CloudFormation stack. Click on the "Outputs" tab in CloudFormation and you should see the "URL" field. Paste that URL into your browser and you should see the application. To connect to the operating system for troubleshooting, SSH into the node with the username of ec2-user and the keypair you referenced when you launched the CloudFormation stack.
Resources
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Support
Vendor support
Kion offers both standard and premium support options. Customers can access our Support Center at https://support.kion.io/hc/en-us to view user documentation and create a support ticket.
AWS infrastructure support
AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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Customer reviews
Instrumental in the guidance/direction of Cloud maturity, governance, support.
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.
Kion makes enterprise CSP management a breeze
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.
Kion offer cloud enablement solutions that help us decommission over-provisioned & inactive resource
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.
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.
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.