Spot by Flexera (formerly Spot by NetApp)

Spot is a suite of cloud infrastructure automation tools. NetApp owned it from 2020 until Flexera bought the FinOps portfolio in a deal that closed on March 3, 2025. The main products are Ocean, which autoscales Kubernetes clusters, and Elastigroup, which manages groups of virtual machines on spot and preemptible instances. Eco handles reserved instance and savings plan commitments. The suite also includes Ocean for Apache Spark and CloudCheckr. The tools pick the cheapest suitable capacity (spot, committed, or on-demand), predict spot interruptions, replace instances before they are reclaimed, bin-pack pods, and rightsize container requests. Spot does not host anything itself. It runs on top of a customer's existing AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud accounts. It suits DevOps and FinOps teams with large, stateless compute footprints. Pricing is mostly outcome-based: Flexera charges a share of the savings it delivers. The AWS Marketplace pay-as-you-go listing also has per-100-vCPU-hour dimensions at $1.415, and it offers a 14-day trial followed by a freemium tier for up to 20 VMs. Enterprise contracts go through sales, and third-party sources estimate they start around $10,000 to $30,000 a year. Spot works with Terraform, CloudFormation, Spinnaker, Chef, and Ansible. The main limitations are budgeting and timing. Savings-based bills can be hard to predict, onboarding requires infrastructure changes, and the savings mostly apply to interruptible workloads. Flexera also says it plans to fold Spot features into Flexera One, so the product's future direction is uncertain.