AWS Cost Management [EOL] vs Cloudability comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Apptio are both solutions in the Cloud Cost Management category. Additionally, 83% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 77% of Apptio users who would recommend it.

AWS Cost Management [EOL]

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83% willing to recommend

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77% willing to recommend

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AWS Cost Management [EOL]

Average Rating

8.2

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Cloudability

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

5.8

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RANJAN KUMAR

DevOps Engineer at ZoomOps Technology

Helps to set cost thresholds and receive alerts if the actual cost exceeds them

We regularly check the status of services to identify any unnecessary or unexpected costs. We utilize the billing dashboard in AWS to monitor daily costs and assess any significant increases. For instance, if our daily AWS expenses usually amount to $1,000 for running a hundred instances, and suddenly it spikes to $1,500, we investigate the reasons behind the increase. We scrutinize detailed reports, identify the areas and services contributing to the rise, and inform our manager. The dashboard overview in AWS Cost Explorer provides a high-level summary of our expenses, covering databases. This includes total costs, daily costs, and a breakdown by services. AWS Cost Explorer offers visualization tools like line charts, bar charts, and pie charts. These visualizations assist us in quickly understanding expenditures, enabling us to pinpoint areas that might need attention. The tool allows the creation of custom reports by selecting and configuring filtering and grouping options. Custom reports include a data range selector, making it easy to analyze expenses for specific periods such as daily, monthly, or custom durations. The budget feature is client-dependent. Before creating any services, we engage with our client to understand their requirements, such as the number of instances, CPU, and memory needed. Subsequently, we create a budgeting tool in servers based on these specifications. Our team configures custom notifications to alert us when actual costs or usage exceed predefined thresholds. These alerts can be sent via email or integrated with Simple Notification Service. I rate the overall product a ten out of ten.

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reviewer2784351

Digital Marketing, Marketing Technology & Analytics Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Gained clear cost visibility and forecasting but still needs finer insights using resource tags

Cloudability offers excellent features including trends, graphs for cost utilization, and forecasting capabilities. The forecasting feature has helped me understand how the resources are utilized and how the cost is burned, and then I use it to make changes to keep the cost in control. Cloudability has positively impacted my organization as it helps us understand cost utilization, make corrections, and understand the forecasting of the cost. It has made reporting much easier.

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

Pros

"The initial setup wasn't complex at all."

"The stability and scalability are good."

"The tool's cost management feature provides a comprehensive view of AWS costs, allowing us to plan and make cost-effective decisions. With AWS Cost Explorer, we can perform cost planning, generate recommendations, and provide clients with suggestions for resizing. This feature includes data filtering and protection, offering users insights into spending patterns through AWS spending patterns and planning tools. The product is easy to learn."

"All of the reporting features are very good, as they allow us to track monthly expenses and send relevant emails."

"The product provides the ability to set cost limits and budgets for a set of resources on the network."

"AWS Cost Management is good for providing in-depth information in one place."

"With the cost management tool, clients can optimize fine tuning their consumption."

"The budgeting tool of AWS Cost Management is the most valuable feature."

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"Cloudability has positively impacted my organization as it helps us understand cost utilization, make corrections, and understand the forecasting of the cost."

"The tool helps us to resize on AWS correctly."

"Transparency and visibility are the key features."

"All the tagging and mapping, which helps to create some virtual tags are useful features."

"It has already given us insight into how to optimize. So, we are now ramping up steadily its usage."

"Each user can have their own dashboard that they want to consume. Instead of having to share one dashboard for multiple users, you can create individual views for each user to view, and that view will contain only their own accounts, which allows for separation of data."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to create reports and dashboards."

"Cloudability takes care of identifying and managing the cloud."

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Cons

"We need finer-grained control over the roles and policies for users, specifying their permissions as to what they can look at."

"AWS could improve the compatibility with other products."

"I would like to see the forecasting models improved with AWS Cost Management."

"The solution needs to improve the communication mechanism available to the stakeholders."

"The solution needs to have its own dashboard for seeing details on it. It should be customizable as well so I have the ability to pull up the information I need to see and have it in one place for my reference. I should just be able to click and see everything I need in one step."

"There could be an option to build custom dashboards for the platform."

"I would like to see AWS Cost Management be more precise in their calculations."

"AWS Cost Management has fewer features compared to Azure Cost Management."

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"I would like the API functionality to improve. The update time after uploading data could also be improved."

"My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was adequate, but it could be made better."

"We have dealt with a few technical support people where we ask for one thing and they might not deliver straightaway. It seems like they are a stretched across multiple customers."

"Right now, what we're doing is we are manually putting the data in it, which is something which we don't like about Cloudability."

"I would improve the integration, or the preparation of the integration, for a complex environment."

"I wish there was a feature to temporarily remove certain recommendations from the list for teams that couldn't implement them immediately. I believe Cloudability could improve its automation functionality and enhance cost allocation modeling."

"Cloudability needs to focus on more cloud providers."

"Enhancements could be made in the user interface and customization, and leveraging GenAI would be an area for improvement in Cloudability."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have signed a long-term contract with AWS. There are different service levels that will determine the level of support you have."

"The tool's pricing depends on our services."

"AWS Cost Management is free to use."

"The product is affordable."

"We get AWS Cost Management for free because we use AWS services."

"Cloudability is a bit expensive."

"The price of the license or the usage is a percentage of the top consumption. So it varies from year to year."

"My team is one of the most expensive teams, and we look at it quite a bit. We have probably easily saved around $400,000 USD a year."

"We have seen ROI with the reserved instances, and having the ability to predict what reserved instances you can get. We can save tens of thousands of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in some cases."

"It justifies the cost and is worth it."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

11%

Retailer

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	4

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	12

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AWS Cost Management?

The tool's cost management feature provides a comprehensive view of AWS costs, allowing us to plan and make cost-effective decisions. With AWS Cost Explorer, we can perform cost planning, generate ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Cost Management?

The tool's pricing depends on our services.

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What needs improvement with AWS Cost Management?

Data transfer between S3 buckets within AWS incurs costs, especially when moving data from one bucket to another or downloading data.

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What do you like most about Cloudability?

The most crucial feature in reducing my cloud costs has been the rightsizing recommendations, along with the dashboards that track reserved instance spending coverage and utilization. As for Clouda...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloudability?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was adequate, but it could be made better.

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What needs improvement with Cloudability?

It would be beneficial if we could use resource tags to provide more fine-grained visibility.

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Overview

AWS Cost Management tools give you visibility into your AWS costs and usage. There are a range of AWS Cost Management tools to help you access, organize, understand, control, and optimize your costs.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Cloudability is a financial management tool for monitoring and analyzing every cloud expense across any organization. It brings transparency to how and where organizations spend money on cloud resources, giving them the power to reap the most value from cloud usage possible. It aggregates expenditures into accessible and comprehensive reports, helps identify new opportunities for reducing spend and increasing cloud efficiency, offers budget alerts and recommendations via SMS and email, provides APIs for connecting cloud billing and usage data to any business or financial system, and more.

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