Pump vs Spot by NetApp: feature-by-feature summary

Pump includes all 25 capabilities in this comparison. Spot by NetApp offers 20 of 25. Spot by NetApp does not offer: Free forever plan, Modernization recommendations, Zero lock-in period, DeepScan technology, Overcommitment insurance (Pump-Insured).

Cloud Savings

• Free forever plan — Pump: Yes. Spot by NetApp: No. Not offered — AWS Marketplace pricing is $1.415 per 100 vCPU-hours OR 25-28% share of savings.

• Commitment planner — Pump: Yes. Spot by NetApp: Yes. Eco module automates AWS Savings Plans and Reserved Instance management.

• Idle instance detection — Pump: Yes. Spot by NetApp: Yes. Ocean rightsizing surfaces idle and underutilized pods and nodes.

• Autopilot continuous monitoring — Pump: Yes. Spot by NetApp: Yes. Elastigroup and Ocean continuously manage EC2 spot, on-demand, and Kubernetes workloads.

• Rightsizing — Pump: Yes. Spot by NetApp: Yes. Ocean rightsizes both Kubernetes pods and underlying nodes.

• Automatic budget alerts — Pump: Yes. Spot by NetApp: Yes. CloudCheckr module (bundled from NetApp portfolio) provides budget alerts.

• Modernization recommendations — Pump: Yes. Spot by NetApp: No. Not offered — no Graviton or ARM migration recommendations.

• Kubernetes auto-scaling — Pump: Yes. Spot by NetApp: Yes. Ocean is a Kubernetes cluster autoscaler for EKS, AKS, and GKE.

• Zero lock-in period — Pump: Yes. Spot by NetApp: No. AWS Marketplace listings typically require annual commitments for pricing.

Cloud Visibility

• 100% virtual tagging coverage — Pump: Yes. Spot by NetApp: Yes. Full cloud-native tag support across Elastigroup and Ocean.

• Single-lens global overview — Pump: Yes. Spot by NetApp: Yes. Spot Console provides unified overview; CloudCheckr adds cost breakdown.

• Customizable reports — Pump: Yes. Spot by NetApp: Yes. CloudCheckr module supports custom cost reports and allocations.

• Kubernetes deployment reports — Pump: Yes. Spot by NetApp: Yes. Ocean dashboards provide cluster, namespace, and pod-level cost views.

• CFO-level financial forecasting — Pump: Yes. Spot by NetApp: Yes. CloudCheckr includes spend forecasting.

• Top movers alerts — Pump: Yes. Spot by NetApp: Yes. CloudCheckr anomaly detection flags cost spikes.

• Multi-channel notifications — Pump: Yes. Spot by NetApp: Yes. Slack, email, and PagerDuty channels on all paid tiers.

• Annotations & team tagging — Pump: Yes. Spot by NetApp: Yes. Labels and tags supported across Elastigroup and Ocean.

• DeepScan technology — Pump: Yes. Spot by NetApp: No. Not offered — Pump-exclusive modernization scanner.

• Multi-cloud support — Pump: Yes. Spot by NetApp: Yes. AWS + Azure + GCP supported via Ocean; commitment management focused on AWS.

• Overcommitment insurance (Pump-Insured) — Pump: Yes. Spot by NetApp: No. Not offered — Spot orchestrates commitments but does not insure against overcommitment loss.

Cloud Security

• Team and product permissions — Pump: Yes. Spot by NetApp: Yes. Role-based access control via Spot Console.

• Automatic budget alerts — Pump: Yes. Spot by NetApp: Yes. Budget alerts via CloudCheckr module.

• Multi-channel alerts — Pump: Yes. Spot by NetApp: Yes. Slack, email, and PagerDuty notification channels.

• Dedicated support staff — Pump: Yes. Spot by NetApp: Yes. Flexera enterprise support post-acquisition.

• Bank, med-tech and fin-tech compliance — Pump: Yes. Spot by NetApp: Yes. SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance.