We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and VMware Cloud Foundation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial implementation process is not difficult or complex."
"For testing, it is a cheap alternative to having to build your own labs."
"The storage on offer is excellent."
"The most valuable feature is that it is simple."
"The main reason why we use EC2 is because we are not dependent on maintaining the hardware inside our premises. Also, we have full control over the infrastructure, and we can modify it as per our own requirements."
"I like ETL, the EC2 platform, and Route 53. These features are a great complement to the basic infrastructure of any company. The AWS platform has many features, but the fundamental cloud infrastructure is the most important."
"I like that the products are specific and objective. We can resolve a problem using a simple configuration. It's so easy to implement a solution and solve a problem using AWS solutions. AWS has a lot of specific solutions for different use cases. I think that this is the most important thing that made us consider using AWS."
"The most valuable feature is scalability, as it is very easy to scale."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of migrating from on-premises infrastructure when transitioning away from older systems."
"The solution is very stable."
"The DSR feature is valuable because we have internal clustering, and these features are good for us."
"The most valuable area is the ECS environment which includes many features."
"I'm able to deploy many platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, and Azure on VMware."
"VMware Cloud Foundation provides us with the vSphere dashboard through which we can manage, monitor, schedule, and spin up your virtual machines. We can manage, monitor, and get reports of your infrastructure."
"The most valuable features in VMware Cloud Foundation are life cycle management and ease of use."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the disaster recovery software."
"The features that should be improved are that there should be better clarity on their invoicing. There are so many things they charge for - high line items in the invoice. I think there should be more clarity and more ease of use with their billing. I'd like to see better ease of use of with the billing console and a clear dashboard to understand the usage."
"Amazon AWS should integrate AI capabilities."
"The security right now needs improvement. It's not bad, per se. It's just that there's always room for improvement in security."
"Not all of the functionality is available in Europe and our customers in France want to be able to use features that are only available in the US."
"There was some new learning in terms of IOPS on the EBS storage. The concept of burstable IOPS was new and we did have a few outages when we ran out of IOPS."
"It's sometimes a challenge to manage billing on this platform. It takes a lot of labor to generate billing for our customers from the service on the cloud."
"AWS for API, or Seller Central, is no improvement from what we had (our internal tools we designed to update accounts, change customer network profiles, monitoring, MRTG graphs, etc), when AWS should be blazing."
"The problem with AWS is you have to keep up with the technology. If you don't stay up to date with the technology and its latest changes then you won't know what to use in your infrastructure."
"Cost is a challenge when convincing clients, especially for large deals."
"I would like to be able to connect the APIs."
"In the early adoption of VMware Cloud Foundation, we have seen minor problems. For example, in our Federation, I see the single pane of glass where we need to manage everything, which is good. However, internally, we have a Kafka database that is distributed by the database used by the SDDC manager. During the distribution and synchronization, there is some issue and we need to stop the process."
"VMware Cloud Foundation can improve the process of upgrading. For example, if you want to upgrade or migrate any component it is very complex."
"The interface is good, but there are compatibility issues or issues with the certificate for the VCenter."
"The price could be better. VMware Cloud Foundation is overpriced, but I think we get what we pay for. It would be better if it were cheaper because it would be easier to go to customers and get them to buy it. We'd get more projects, and that would be great."
"The pricing could be a bit less expensive."
"The deployment is clumsy and complex. There are too many things that need to be done in order to deploy."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews while VMware Cloud Foundation is ranked 10th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 23 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while VMware Cloud Foundation is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Cloud Foundation writes "Reliable with good hyper-converged sizing flexibility and an automated setup". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), whereas VMware Cloud Foundation is most compared with Azure Stack, Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), AWS Outposts, Google Anthos and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our Amazon AWS vs. VMware Cloud Foundation report.
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