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 75% of Apptio users who would recommend it.

AWS Cost Management [EOL]

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83% willing to recommend

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75% willing to recommend

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AWS Cost Management [EOL]

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

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Cloudability

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

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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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Vijay More

Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Helps to understand and manage spending across clouds, but has dashboard limitations

Cloudability offers valuable insights into data engineering and analytics platforms. With access to the same data Cloudability utilizes, one could recreate similar dashboards on their own data platform. This implies that Cloudability's role could be replaceable with some organizational effort, provided they have the necessary data sources and expertise. However, for organizations looking to streamline processes without investing extensive time, money, and resources into building their solution, Cloudability serves as a convenient option. Moreover, it offers benefits for both single-cloud and multi-cloud users. While it's beneficial for single-cloud users, it becomes particularly advantageous for organizations with multi-cloud environments, as it helps manage costs and optimize resources across different cloud providers.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

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

"I like the recommendation we get from AWS Cost Management to use a particular image or VM type."

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

"The initial setup was straightforward. It's not complex at all."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"The support from IBM is fantastic"

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

"It provides us visibility, then we can turn around and can give the leadership team more information, which we could not previously give them."

"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 sizing recommendation will look, and say, "You are only using this at 80%," then recommend a better fit for you."

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Cons

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

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

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

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

"AWS could improve the compatibility with other products."

"This program is not very scalable."

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

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

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"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."

"Cloudability needs to improve on data collection from cloud sources."

"Cloudability needs to focus on more cloud providers."

"There are also some limitations with the dashboards and data representation in Cloudability."

"There is always room for improvement in education and training. We are not that mature in terms of our automation. It could help us identify where we could optimize in terms of build."

"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."

"We would like them to have a linear regression, so we can be predictive for budgets, allocations, and the year's follow ups. We also want to have a longer window of analytics with better certainty that our workload will fit the model, not just in a two week window."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"The product is affordable."

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

"AWS Cost Management is free to use."

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

"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."

"It justifies the cost and is worth it."

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

"Cloudability is a bit expensive."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

Energy/Utilities Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Media Company

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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?

I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten, where one is very cheap and ten is very expensive. Pricing is one of the main issues we face. Cloudability is actually expensive, and it's quite diffic...

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What needs improvement with Cloudability?

The first one is, how to help users, especially practitioners, stick to their commitment plan. For example, how can I use Cloudability to help me optimize my selling plan and my residential plan? T...

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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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