We performed a comparison between AWS Trusted Advisor and vCloud 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."
"It helps ensure security across our cloud environments."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The solution is reliable and performs well."
"The most valuable features are the UI, the interface, and accessibility."
"It optimizes the process for cloud structure."
"The deployment is easy."
"Their technical support is great. We had some difficult cases and they were able to solve them in a timely manner."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director for me is its user-friendly UI, which is much easier compared to other platforms."
"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."
"Maybe adding more security rules would be great."
"The tenancy must be free for all metrics."
"I'd like the solution to support clouds beyond AWS."
"The initial setup is not straightforward; it can be complicated. The deployment can take one to two weeks."
"It could be more stable. We have had issues with multiple different versions."
"Lacking additional services reduces the level of cloud integration companies just love with Amazon and Azure."
"It would be beneficial to have enhanced integration capabilities with third-party solutions within vCloud Director, especially in networking and data security."
"There are new updates every quarter, so we need to purchase new support deployment services and some new products."
"If you have a deployed environment and lose it, you can't easily deploy it back with vCloud Director. Because of this reason, we don't have the data protection, disaster recovery, and container features."
"The tool needs to add more features to improve the console."
"Lacks integration with the hyperscalers."
AWS Trusted Advisor is ranked 22nd in Cloud Management with 4 reviews while vCloud Director is ranked 6th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews. AWS Trusted Advisor is rated 8.6, while vCloud Director is rated 8.0. 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 vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". AWS Trusted Advisor is most compared with AWS Control Tower, IBM Turbonomic, CloudCheckr and VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, whereas vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), VMware Aria Operations, Morpheus and CloudStack. See our AWS Trusted Advisor vs. vCloud Director report.
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