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AWS Trusted Advisor vs VMware Aria Operations comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

AWS Trusted Advisor
Ranking in Cloud Management
27th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMware Aria Operations
Ranking in Cloud Management
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
376
Ranking in other categories
Virtualization Management Tools (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of AWS Trusted Advisor is 1.3%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Aria Operations is 3.9%, down from 8.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
VMware Aria Operations3.9%
AWS Trusted Advisor1.3%
Other94.8%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

MuhammadAzhar Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior DevOps Engineer at Alibaba Group
Optimizes cloud strategies with security and cost insights
Trusted Advisor offers features that provide inside information for the entire account, including identifying security gaps and offering cost optimization insights. The key features include security recommendations, cost optimization, and various packages to choose from, depending on the size of the company. It is especially beneficial for larger companies, as the tool provides a comprehensive view of account security, open ports, buckets, and offers recommendations for protection.
AldoDomini - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Network Analyst at Net spa
Have faced limitations due to high costs but have maintained reliability over time
The primary issue is the pricing, which is very expensive for my company's budget. We cannot afford to pay such a large fee. We are not Microsoft or BMW; we are a small company. As a small company, I have no power to negotiate directly with VMware. Perhaps larger companies have more opportunity to contract directly with VMware, but I do not have that leverage. The only path I can follow is to change solutions. Net.spA is a company working in the field of waste management. We are not a technological company, so we do not have a large margin to justify purchasing and maintaining the VMware infrastructure at current costs.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"AWS Trusted Advisor is a tool that we can use to optimize the AWS infrastructure cost."
"The cost optimization and security-related fixes in the AWS Trusted Advisor have been great."
"Trusted Advisor offers features that provide inside information for the entire account, including identifying security gaps and offering cost optimization insights."
"The key features include security recommendations, cost optimization, and various packages to choose from, depending on the size of the company."
"It is very stable."
"I would give it a ten out of ten."
"The recommendation feature is really good."
"Trusted Advisor has helped our organisation gain insights into best practices across a number of important domains for us, and it has helped me maintain a holistic view of our AWS platform and guided me to improve areas needing it."
"It integrates extremely well with the rest of our products."
"Capacity planning alerts dashboard get all the alerts from the external network and use ELK to show them in the production environment."
"The performance for monitoring the VM is very good. Additionally, the solution is flexible."
"It is easy to see when something has gone wrong. We just have to go in and fix it. The reduced time it takes to spot and fix an issue has improved my organization. It saves the amount of resources that we use to fix an incident"
"It's helped speed up performance and helped us size our environment appropriately, so that the servers that need the resources can get them, so we're not over-subscribing some and under-subscribing others."
"The historical data allows us to go back, look at the VM past historical data, CPU memory usage, and disk latency, and it helps us troubleshoot a lot of issues."
"vROps is extremely scalable; it can size from a small, to a medium, to a large environment, with options to have HA enabled or disabled, so the product scales extremely well."
"If you have an enterprise-level environment or work in a large-scale data center, I would definitely recommend using vROps."
 

Cons

"The integration between Trusted Advisor and Security Hub sometimes lacks, and I need a way to ensure things come through there."
"However, the integration between Trusted Advisor and Security Hub occasionally confuses as there are many overlapping AWS services and the same finding can be duplicated."
"I'd like the solution to support clouds beyond AWS."
"Maybe adding more security rules would be great."
"Whenever they suggest anything or any changes in the environment, we cannot click and simply implement those changes."
"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."
"The tenancy must be free for all metrics."
"Trusted Advisor currently scans the whole system, including development, staging, and QA environments, which increases costs. It would be better if it could selectively scan only production systems."
"More stable upgrades, if that's a feature. Had some problems so far."
"With a little more smoothness to the application, as it can lag a bit at times."
"The prebuilt dashboards are easy to use, but if you want to create your own, it is not so easy. It is the same for reports."
"The solution could improve by having more APIs, customized alerts, and documentation."
"Monitoring our vSAN environment still seems to be touch and go. It doesn't always report correctly on that."
"It's a very expensive product in the mid-range for what you get for the cost; you're going to pay a significant amount."
"There are a lot more improvements that need to be done with the product. They've advanced from the last version, but there are many more things that should be there, and they're not."
"It was just a case of going in, looking around, learning it, and just getting a little bit of initial help for a few days."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Trusted Advisor offers various packages, with the most comprehensive costing $15,000 per month."
"The solution has a huge cost. If we could just have one license covering everything that vROps can do, that would be great. I would prefer it this way."
"So, besides the license overall, you have to pay for the type of support you want. With the license, there is a support cost as well."
"If one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the product price an eight out of ten."
"The licensing is quite expensive for our company."
"The optimization is a huge return on investment alone."
"The pricing is a little bit expensive. Licensing is an issue because there are always changes, and by that I mean cost increases. And that's not only for vROps but for VMware, vSphere, and all the products that are involved."
"Five or six years ago, when we took it, it was a very good option. Now, I think I have to reevaluate, to be honest."
"I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Retailer
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
Construction Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Marketing Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business66
Midsize Enterprise61
Large Enterprise281
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Trusted Advisor?
The cost of Trusted Advisor is reasonable, though it can be further economized by allowing selective scanning, focusing only on production systems, to avoid unnecessary costs associated with develo...
What needs improvement with AWS Trusted Advisor?
Trusted Advisor currently scans the whole system, including development, staging, and QA environments, which increases costs. It would be better if it could selectively scan only production systems...
What is your primary use case for AWS Trusted Advisor?
We have been using Amazon Inspector and Amazon Trusted Advisor for monitoring. These tools are especially useful for preventing cyberattacks on our systems. Trusted Advisor scans the complete infra...
What's the difference between VMware vRA (automation) and vROps (operations)?
vROP is a virtualization management solution from VMWare. It is efficient and easy to manage. You can find anything you need from the software interface. It provides complete visibility over applic...
Is VMware Aria Operations a user friendly solution?
In terms of user-friendliness, VMware Aria Operations is one of the best solutions out there. It is not overly complex to set up and you can rely on the technical support to provide you with assis...
What is the most useful new feature of VMware Aria Operations?
For me, the alerts features are the most unique part of this product, no matter the current name it uses. When they introduced the new version of VMware Aria Operations, they also introduced more a...
 

Also Known As

No data available
VMware vRealize Operations (vROps), vCenter Operations Manager (VCOPS)
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
Science Applications International Corporation, Tribune Media, Heartland Payment Systems, Telkom Indonesia, Columbia Sportswear, iGATE, CSS Corp, Angel Broking, Adira Finance, Hipskind, Beiersdorf Shared Services, Innovate Mas Indonesia, Adobe, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi , Join Experience S.A, Borusan Holdings, Department of Transport - Abu Dhabi
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