We performed a comparison between AWS Outposts and VMware Cloud Foundation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable aspect is that it comes in a rack form factor which makes it incredibly easy to use and deploy various AWS services."
"Outposts allows you to isolate your private environment from the public cloud provider while enabling almost all the features that are available on public cloud services. That is the beauty of this service. It's an infrastructure that you can put in your data center and seamlessly connect to the public cloud."
"The most valuable aspect is its ability to provide interfaces for events."
"If you compare with the full bundle of these services, you can see the difference. This is enough for these locations in private data centers. Because the main reasons why the customers want to have it on their side are for the low latency and the security of their critical data."
"I think the keys to success for the solution is the easy-to-use user interface and the fact that the development team really likes the platform."
"AWS Outposts brings native AWS services, infrastructure, and API to our on-premises data center or co-location facilities."
"The most valuable area is the ECS environment which includes many features."
"The solution is very stable."
"The DSR feature is valuable because we have internal clustering, and these features are good for us."
"The most valuable aspect of VMware Cloud Foundation is you can manage everything from area."
"The initial setup is straightforward and easy."
"I'm able to deploy many platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, and Azure on VMware."
"You can use VMware Cloud Foundation with hyper-converge."
"The most valuable features in VMware Cloud Foundation are life cycle management and ease of use."
"The pricing model needs improvement because right now it's very expensive. All of these solutions are very expensive and it prevents other customers or owners of data centers from buying it."
"Outposts supports elastic coordinator services, but not elastic container services, which is the native service for containers in AWS. That is something missing in this product."
"It would be beneficial to have the option for capacity expansion."
"Also, it would be beneficial if AWS allowed for more granular and customizable pricing options."
"The platform needs to spend more time investing in strengthening its governance and information tools and consider the real needs of its customers."
"Depending on the installation process, we have found some bugs and issues with the solution when the same platform is not used."
"From a stability perspective, there may be some issues."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"We would like the ability to write to both sites at the same time, in a synchronous fashion."
"The customization has room for improvement."
"Working on features that could include the capability to migrate workflows from non-VMware environments would be highly beneficial."
"The pricing could be a bit less expensive."
"Life cycle management is an area for improvement."
"They should provide integration with Azure VMware Solution."
AWS Outposts is ranked 4th in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms with 6 reviews while VMware Cloud Foundation is ranked 2nd in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms with 23 reviews. AWS Outposts is rated 8.6, while VMware Cloud Foundation is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of AWS Outposts writes "Has the ability to provide interfaces for events and allows you to work both offline and online". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Cloud Foundation writes "Reliable with good hyper-converged sizing flexibility and an automated setup". AWS Outposts is most compared with Azure Stack, Google Anthos and Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), whereas VMware Cloud Foundation is most compared with Azure Stack, Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), Google Anthos and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our AWS Outposts vs. VMware Cloud Foundation report.
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