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 initial setup wasn't complex at all."
"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."
"The product provides the ability to set cost limits and budgets for a set of resources on the network."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It's not complex at all."
"All of the reporting features are very good, as they allow us to track monthly expenses and send relevant emails."
"AWS Cost Management is good for providing in-depth information in one place."
"The budgeting tool of AWS Cost Management is the most valuable feature."
"The stability and scalability are good."
"I like the integration with other applications or vendors."
"The product provides excellent daily reports."
"The flexibility is the product's most valuable feature."
"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 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."
"The most valuable feature is that it has a very easy and adaptive look and feel, compared with some other cloud solutions."
"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."
"Data transfer between S3 buckets within AWS incurs costs, especially when moving data from one bucket to another or downloading data."
"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."
"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."
"There could be an option to build custom dashboards for the platform."
"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."
"AWS Cost Management has fewer features compared to Azure Cost Management."
"The product needs some investment in configuration. I would like to see better and more optimized configuration in the tool's future releases."
"There are some kinks to resolve with the Web GUI user interface, as it freezes at times."
"I would like it if they could provide their customers with more qualified support."
"It would be a good idea for VMware to be compatible with the most popular orchestration tools in the market."
"If you haven't established a vSphere cluster and you only have a single server to integrate, you can't deploy any service."
"Better integration with other VMware toolsets would be beneficial."
"The knowledge base is not available for the engineers, which is something that needs to be improved."
"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."
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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