We performed a comparison between AWS Trusted Advisor and Cisco UCS Director based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The cost optimization features are valuable."
"AWS Trusted Advisor is a tool that we can use to optimize the AWS infrastructure cost."
"The Security Advisor is the most valuable feature. It instantly informs you about any system misconfigurations, and the best part is, it's completely free."
"The cost optimization and security-related fixes in AWS Trusted Advisor have been great."
"The product is flexible and compact. It has a lot of features."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the fabric sharing."
"The main feature of this solution is the integration with all the Cisco solutions and other vendors."
"I can manage multiple workloads whether it's on AWS, Azure, or on-premises. They can be managed by using the UCS Director."
"UCS director enables us to be more productive and more agile, and also more self-sufficient because we don't have to depend on anybody else."
"A product that really aids in systems management without complexity."
"An easy and strong configuration, along with its low cost, are some of the features of the solution."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The tenancy must be free for all metrics."
"I'd like the solution to support clouds beyond AWS."
"Maybe adding more security rules would be great."
"For EC2 instances, we need to install the AWS CloudWatch agent to get the memory metric because we don't have a by-default memory utilization graph on cost optimization."
"I would like to see more integration with other solutions."
"There could be an improvement with the integration with the newest solutions from other vendors' technologies."
"Normally, UCS Director is used primarily for orchestration, but when we look at a non-Cisco data infrastructure components, the UCS Director needs a bit more improvement in terms of integration with third-party systems and with existing older systems."
"It is not easy to add or expand the product."
"The tool should be a lot more intuitive and make it easy for us to understand and migrate."
"The areas where this product can be improved are the integrations and the UI. These features are not as friendly compared to VMware products."
"The product's pricing needs to improve."
"We cannot depend on this solution to manage all of the data center's infrastructure."
AWS Trusted Advisor is ranked 22nd in Cloud Management with 4 reviews while Cisco UCS Director is ranked 23rd in Cloud Management with 13 reviews. AWS Trusted Advisor is rated 8.6, while Cisco UCS Director is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of AWS Trusted Advisor writes "A stable and easy-to-use product that provides excellent cost optimization features and technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco UCS Director writes " Enables centralized management, but the tool is complicated and expensive". AWS Trusted Advisor is most compared with AWS Control Tower, IBM Turbonomic, CloudCheckr and VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth, whereas Cisco UCS Director is most compared with Cisco Intersight, VMware Aria Automation, vCenter Orchestrator, VMware Aria Operations and Cisco CloudCenter. See our AWS Trusted Advisor vs. Cisco UCS Director report.
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