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AWS Budgets vs CoreStack comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

AWS Budgets
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
63rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
4.7
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
CoreStack
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
23rd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of AWS Budgets is 0.5%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CoreStack is 1.3%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
CoreStack1.3%
AWS Budgets0.5%
Other98.2%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

Chukwudi Uzoma - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of IT, Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
FinOps budgets have strengthened cost governance and provide timely alerts for spending spikes
There is limited visualization compared to Cost Explorer. Budget actions are useful but not as flexible as custom automations. Reporting can become difficult in large, multi-account organizations or environments. FinOps teams usually go to Crol, AWS Athena, or QuickSight for deeper analysis. Alerting fatigue can occur if thresholds are not carefully designed. I rated this product eight out of ten because, similar to every service, there is room for improvement. If AWS Budgets could improve reporting for larger multi-account environments, enhance budget actions, and provide limited visualization improvements, the rating could be a ten. For now, the rating remains eight.
Manmohan Rao - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
Cost reports have driven accurate AWS workload optimization and continue to guide savings
I can suggest improvements for CoreStack, especially regarding reporting periods. I noticed that some of the cost optimization reports generated potential savings while considering systems that have only maximum utilization of 1% or 2%. The recommendations made in CoreStack to delete a machine have the potential to generate major cost savings, but such machines should not be listed for deletion if they have maximum CPU utilization of 1%. I have concerns about needed improvements primarily regarding AWS. If a customer is running ten virtual machines and one machine has a maximum of 1% utilization, it is considered as an idle instance in the report, which completely ignores that particular machine. This should not be the approach.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"AWS Budgets is an overall valuable service for organizations beginning their FinOps journey and for maintaining cost accountability across teams."
"CoreStack has positively impacted my organization by saving hours of time for reporting—for example, the governance report which my employees used to take at least four hours for one customer, and since I'm sending out 20 reports every month, that equates to 80 hours, thus saving me two man-weeks every month and approximately $8,000 in pure savings if I estimate $100 an hour for my architect."
"My advice for others looking into using CoreStack is that anyone who is looking to optimize their workload cost for public cloud services should start using CoreStack because of the reports and granularity it produces to optimize cost, which will benefit them."
"Currently, I think CoreStack is the best FinOps tool available in the market, which is why we are using it."
 

Cons

"There is limited visualization compared to Cost Explorer. Reporting can become difficult in large, multi-account organizations or environments."
"I noticed that some of the cost optimization reports generated potential savings while considering systems that have only maximum utilization of 1% or 2%. The recommendations made in CoreStack to delete a machine have the potential to generate major cost savings, but such machines should not be listed for deletion if they have maximum CPU utilization of 1%."
"I give it an eight because, as I mentioned, a few things from the billing operations need to be added, and we need more security features, particularly since the market is increasingly demanding better security tools for cloud management platforms, including cloud security posture assessments."
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Top Industries

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Media Company
18%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Healthcare Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
 

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Budgets?
Pricing for AWS Budgets is very low, mostly free with minimal charges. It is also high value compared to the cost.
What needs improvement with AWS Budgets?
AWS Budgets can be improved by providing a better UI and visualization. Additionally, it could offer more granular, real-time data, and if they provide smart anomaly detection, that would be helpfu...
What is your primary use case for AWS Budgets?
AWS Budgets serves as the main tool for proactive cost monitoring and alerting, ensuring we do not exceed planned budgets at the account, service, or project level. We use AWS Budgets for proactive...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CoreStack?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is pretty good because we received private pricing, which I cannot disclose. The setup was included as a one-time expense, and licensing is str...
What needs improvement with CoreStack?
At this time, we are exploring other options from CoreStack, but I do not think any specific improvements are needed. However, adding features to automate tasks at the operations level could help p...
What is your primary use case for CoreStack?
My main use case for CoreStack is cloud cost governance and FinOps maturity. We are using CoreStack for our operations team and we have multiple cloud customers from different hyperscalers. For a s...
 

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