We performed a comparison between AWS Cost Management [EOL] and vRealize Business for Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Microsoft, VMware and others in Cloud Cost Management."The stability and scalability are good."
"The initial setup wasn't complex at all."
"With the cost management tool, clients can optimize fine tuning their consumption."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It's not complex at all."
"AWS Cost Management is good for providing in-depth information in one place."
"The product provides the ability to set cost limits and budgets for a set of resources on the network."
"I like the recommendation we get from AWS Cost Management to use a particular image or VM type."
"The budgeting tool of AWS Cost Management is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is that it has a very easy and adaptive look and feel, compared with some other cloud solutions."
"The way the dashboard works with the main orchestrator to combine different types of cloud providers is helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the metering capability."
"It doesn't take long to develop an automation blueprint. You need about half an hour, and then you can install or deploy it on several systems. That was our first great advantage in the project because we urgently needed to deploy across many different systems."
"This solution has made us aware that we are over-provisioning our virtual machines."
"The tool helps us to monitor the services provided to customers as a cloud provider. The product is a monitoring solution that helps customers pay for their utilization of services."
"The product provides excellent daily reports."
"The flexibility is the product's most valuable feature."
"We need finer-grained control over the roles and policies for users, specifying their permissions as to what they can look at."
"Data transfer between S3 buckets within AWS incurs costs, especially when moving data from one bucket to another or downloading data."
"There could be an option to build custom dashboards for the platform."
"AWS could improve the compatibility with other products."
"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."
"This program is not very scalable."
"I would like to see the forecasting models improved with AWS Cost Management."
"If you haven't established a vSphere cluster and you only have a single server to integrate, you can't deploy any service."
"I would like it if they could provide their customers with more qualified support."
"I would like to have an easy way of modifying the reference data that is used for the purposes of estimating the total billing."
"The solution's private cloud is much too expensive."
"The pricing model is complicated and would be more predictable if it were simplified."
"It would be a good idea for VMware to be compatible with the most popular orchestration tools in the market."
"It's not always easy to find the information you need. You must have a lot of technical experience to find the right location for what you're implementing within the program."
"The knowledge base is not available for the engineers, which is something that needs to be improved."
AWS Cost Management [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Cloud Cost Management with 10 reviews while vRealize Business for Cloud is ranked 12th in Cloud Cost Management with 10 reviews. AWS Cost Management [EOL] is rated 8.2, while vRealize Business for Cloud is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of AWS Cost Management [EOL] writes "Easy to use and provides in-depth information in one place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vRealize Business for Cloud writes "Complete solution for automation, orchestration, and end-to-end lifecycle management". AWS Cost Management [EOL] is most compared with VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, IBM Turbonomic, Cloudability, Google Cloud Billing and Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), whereas vRealize Business for Cloud is most compared with VMware Aria Operations, VMware Aria Automation and VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth.
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