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Anbox Cloud vs Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service) comparison

 

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Anbox Cloud
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.6
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Application Virtualization (7th)
Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearc...
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Indexing and Search (11th)
 

Featured Reviews

IsaacHernandez - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Lead QA at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Cloud-based Android testing has transformed how our teams reproduce issues and run remote QA sessions
Anbox Cloud can be improved mainly in ease of setup and operational simplicity. The platform is very powerful, but the initial configuration can feel complex, especially around infrastructure, networking, images, GPU support, and scaling. Better guided setup, clearer troubleshooting messages, and more production-ready templates would help a lot. I would also improve the monitoring and reporting experience, especially around session performance, resource usage, latency, and failures. For QA and operation teams, having clearer dashboards and logs would make it easier to detect problems quickly. Overall, it works well, but it could be more user-friendly for teams that do not have Linux, LXC, or cloud infrastructure experience. I would add that the documentation could be more scenario-based. The official docs cover the components, but real production examples would help more, specifically for scaling, GPU configuration, networking, image lifecycle, and troubleshooting failed sessions. Also, integrations could be stronger. Better out-of-the-box examples for CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools, observability dashboards, and automated QA workflows would make adoption easier. I also would appreciate clearer guidance around cost optimization because when you scale Android instances in the cloud, resource planning becomes very important.
Mahir Selek - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Scientist at a educational organization with 5,001-10,000 employees
Chatbot has handled large PDF search workloads and provides clear dashboards for daily work
Because I am pursuing a PhD and work under the university, my university has an agreement with AWS, which makes it essentially free and easier to use. In the AWS ecosystem, everything is connected and I can control everything without uncertainty about what is happening behind the scenes. However, when using Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service), I connected it to Google Cloud but I am paying separate receipts. Over the last two months in October and November, I paid two separate invoices that are not connected to Google Cloud, which I did not appreciate. Google Cloud has a nice interface that gives me full control of pricing and billing. I can see daily, weekly, and monthly breakdowns with bar charts, and I can track exactly how much I spent during any period. Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service) does not have such a tool for billing visibility. Since I am handling significant amounts of money and am responsible for this task within my company, I have high expectations for pricing and billing transparency. I would appreciate the ability to set a spending limit, such as uploading 200 euros, and receive notifications when reaching 50% of that limit. These notifications could appear on the dashboard, in the application, or via email. It would be valuable to see a timeline of my spending. I would characterize the pricing as somewhat expensive. I did not use competitors extensively, so I may have a bias about this. The pricing of large language models is not expensive—I use Anthropic's Claude or Google's Gemini, which are state-of-the-art models. However, I am uncertain whether I have a bias about Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service) pricing. It is not extraordinarily expensive, but when I compare it with the cost of using large language models or Google Cloud storage, it is quite expensive. A couple of days ago, the Elastic team reached out to me. We have been regularly using the service since April, and 10 days ago at the beginning of December, I deleted my hosted deployments because I did not like the idea of paying when I am not actively using Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service). They informed me that there is a serverless option available. Before Christmas, I want to try it to see how it works, as I am uncertain about the serverless concept and whether it will provide the same functionality that I use with the hosted deployment.

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Pros

"Anbox Cloud has helped us deliver faster to the market, automating testing and significantly improving testing cycles and time by 60 to 70%, resulting in faster time to market and increased customer satisfaction, which is up by at least 70 to 80%."
"The automated testing integration in Anbox Cloud has reduced our testing time by 90%, decreased defect density by 87%, and also helped identify any zero-day vulnerabilities earlier, ensuring that the testing is complete and all edge cases have been covered in that automated testing run."
"Overall, Anbox Cloud is a strong platform when you need scalable Android environments in the cloud, creating a more controlled, repeatable, and scalable Android workflow for QA, demos, and remote validation."
"It helps run Android and system containers using Ubuntu Pro."
"We have an excellent experience with support from Canonical, as they provide great support and our experience with the support team has been excellent."
"Anbox Cloud is a solution for testing that improves productivity across our development and use with physical Android devices."
"Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service) has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to move away from expensive services such as DataDog and gives us about the same level of service while allowing us to keep data for a longer period of time at a cheaper price."
"Scalability is valuable to me, as I have 50,000 PDF JSON files that contain my metadata, and I am really glad to use Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service) for this volume without any issues."
"Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service) is a wonderful solution for seamless implementation and maintaining its health."
"There have been quite a lot of good outcomes since using Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service); customers have been able to use their data much faster and more effectively, and it definitely stands as one of the best observability platforms."
 

Cons

"Anbox Cloud can be improved mainly in ease of setup and operational simplicity."
"In Brazil, it is difficult to find technical professionals with OpenStack or this technology skills."
"The logging feature of Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service) itself is pretty valuable, but we tried the observability module and some of the AI features. Those need improvement."
"I would characterize the pricing as somewhat expensive. It is not extraordinarily expensive, but when I compare it with the cost of using large language models or Google Cloud storage, it is quite expensive."
"Sometimes it gets tricky to navigate through the user manuals because there are different forms of links."
"Machine learning might be expensive for customers."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Insurance Company
66%
Construction Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Computer Software Company
5%
Construction Company
24%
Computer Software Company
16%
Educational Organization
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Anbox Cloud?
The metering and billing experience with Anbox Cloud on AWS is transparent via AWS Marketplace, and I feel they provide a great price while we are getting it from AWS. They give a transparent and g...
What needs improvement with Anbox Cloud?
Everything seems to be very great, whether it is deployment integrations, the user interface, the pricing, setup cost, deployments, each and everything is on point. The ROI we are getting here is m...
What is your primary use case for Anbox Cloud?
The specific use case where we are using Anbox Cloud is to run Android system and applications directly instead of running them on physical devices, which helps our organization. All the procedures...
What needs improvement with Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service)?
Machine learning might be expensive for customers. Customers take advantage of Elastic being open source, but machine learning is not available in the open source version. If a customer is using th...
What is your primary use case for Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service)?
I developed a chatbot with text summarization and question answering capabilities. I need to summarize multiple PDFs, and I have a database in Google Cloud Storage where I perform keyword matching ...
What advice do you have for others considering Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service)?
Some of my customers utilize Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service), especially in the private sector, but most of the government sector do not use it. Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service) performs...
 

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