Pump vs Stacklet: feature-by-feature summary

Pump includes all 25 capabilities in this comparison. Stacklet offers 14 of 25. Stacklet does not offer: Free forever plan, Commitment planner, Autopilot continuous monitoring, Modernization recommendations, Kubernetes auto-scaling, Zero lock-in period, Kubernetes deployment reports, CFO-level financial forecasting, Top movers alerts, Overcommitment insurance (Pump-Insured), Dedicated support staff.

Cloud Savings

• Free forever plan — Pump: Yes. Stacklet: No. Not offered: Requires a sales demo request; AWS Marketplace lists a paid $5,000/month evaluation.

• Commitment planner — Pump: Yes. Stacklet: No. Not documented: Flags underused commitments but doesn't execute RI or SP purchases or resale.

• Idle instance detection — Pump: Yes. Stacklet: Yes. Policies flag idle and orphaned resources and can trigger remediation, but requires authoring Cloud Custodian policies.

• Autopilot continuous monitoring — Pump: Yes. Stacklet: No. Not offered natively. Anomaly insight requires integrating third-party tools; no native ML-based auto-remediation.

• Rightsizing — Pump: Yes. Stacklet: Yes. Cost-saving actions come via policy packs, needs policy config rather than one-click UI execution.

• Automatic budget alerts — Pump: Yes. Stacklet: Yes. AWS budget objects can be queried via policy (aws.budget resource), requiring authoring rather than a dashboard toggle.

• Modernization recommendations — Pump: Yes. Stacklet: No. Not documented. No Graviton or ARM-specific migration recommendation feature is published.

• Kubernetes auto-scaling — Pump: Yes. Stacklet: No. Not offered. The Kubernetes provider (c7n-kube) enforces admission-control policies, not autoscaling or HPA tuning.

• Zero lock-in period — Pump: Yes. Stacklet: No. Not offered. Onboarding is demo-request and sales-contract based; no self-serve signup is published.

Cloud Visibility

• 100% virtual tagging coverage — Pump: Yes. Stacklet: Yes. Automated tagging enforcement applies and corrects labels across cloud estate without editing.

• Single-lens global overview — Pump: Yes. Stacklet: Yes. AssetDB gives a real-time, queryable inventory of resources, costs.

• Customizable reports — Pump: Yes. Stacklet: Yes. AssetDB's SQL and natural-language queries can build unit-economics views, but requires custom query construction.

• Kubernetes deployment reports — Pump: Yes. Stacklet: No. Not documented. No Kubernetes cost-per-pod or per-namespace reporting is published.

• CFO-level financial forecasting — Pump: Yes. Stacklet: No. Not documented as a dedicated feature; budget coverage is framed as a third-party integration enhancement.

• Top movers alerts — Pump: Yes. Stacklet: No. Not offered as a standalone feature; anomaly insight comes via third-party tool integration.

• Multi-channel notifications — Pump: Yes. Stacklet: Yes. Remediation workflows and action items route natively into Slack, Jira, and ServiceNow.

• Annotations & team tagging — Pump: Yes. Stacklet: Yes. Tagging automation supports allocation-style labeling for shared or cross-team cost attribution.

• DeepScan technology — Pump: Yes. Stacklet: Yes. Cost-saving opportunities are prioritized by cost impact, remediation effort, and risk.

• Multi-cloud support — Pump: Yes. Stacklet: Yes. Covers AWS, Azure, GCP, Tencent Cloud natively; OCI needs Cloud Custodian's separate beta provider package.

• Overcommitment insurance (Pump-Insured) — Pump: Yes. Stacklet: No. Not offered. Stacklet has no savings guarantee or commitment-insurance product.

Cloud Security

• Team and product permissions — Pump: Yes. Stacklet: Yes. Role-based access control (added 2025) lets admins delegate policy and account-group access by role.

• Automatic budget alerts — Pump: Yes. Stacklet: Yes. Policy packs cover NIST CSF, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and CIS Benchmarks; SOC 2/GDPR are not documented as packaged sets.

• Multi-channel alerts — Pump: Yes. Stacklet: Yes. Policy-as-code is the Cloud Custodian mechanism Stacklet commercializes for cost and security.

• Dedicated support staff — Pump: Yes. Stacklet: No. Not offered. Lists native integrations with Slack, Jira, and ServiceNow rather than a broad app marketplace.

• Bank, med-tech and fin-tech compliance — Pump: Yes. Stacklet: Yes. AssetDB maintains resource revision history and change tracking for compliance and audit reporting.