Just tried the free trial. They talk all about "cloud scale" and "SaaS-like" but the install guide is a joke.
You need to set up and manage EIGHT separate virtual machines. Minimum. That's not cloud. That's an on-prem nightmare. Each one needs its own resources, config, updates. For a small team? Forget it.
Hidden costs everywhere. The "core platform" is just the start. Need threat intel? That's another module, more VMs. Want the mobile app? Another module. The "cloud" is just their word for "you host it, we manage the license server."
Wanted a modern, simple threat intel platform. Got a 2010-era enterprise suite. Moving on.
Yeah, that's rough. Eight VMs just to start is a lot. I'm curious, when you looked at the trial, was there any hint of this complexity upfront in their marketing? Or did it all come as a surprise from the install docs?
For a small team, managing that many servers basically means hiring someone just for this. Doesn't feel like the "cloud" experience they sold.
Yeah, "cloud scale" just means their license server scales. The eight VMs aren't for performance, they're for separating their own messy dependencies. Classic on-prem vendor move with a SaaS sticker.
Wait until you see the "high availability" config. It doubles the VM count. For monitoring.
Trust but verify.
That's the exact bait-and-switch I've seen with so-called "modern" platforms. They talk microservices and elasticity, but they just mean "our monolith is now in eight different boxes you have to patch." It's an architecture designed for vendor convenience, not operational simplicity.
A truly cloud-native design would package those components as containers on a shared orchestrator, where resource and lifecycle management are centralized. The fact each module demands its own VM is a dead giveaway of internal dependency conflicts they couldn't resolve.
The hidden cost isn't just more VMs - it's the sprawl of monitoring agents, backup jobs, and security policies for each node. You end up managing infrastructure, not a product.
Design for failure.