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ClearScale Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs Cloudcraft comparison

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ClearScale Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
189th
Average Rating
10.0
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
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Cloudcraft
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
40th
Average Rating
9.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
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Featured Reviews

reviewer2855598 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud DevOps Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
CIS hardening has simplified secure container workloads but AppArmor still blocks Docker by default
The CIS L1 AppArmor enforcement breaks Docker out of the box. Containers fail to start with a permission denied on the containerd task directory. There is no documentation about this. A simple note explaining that Docker users need to either update the runc AppArmor profile or disable it would save a lot of debugging time. It takes a while to trace the failure back to AppArmor blocking runc writes to /run/containerd/.
PrinceKumar7 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Visual planning has transformed how our teams document aws architecture and estimate costs
The best features Cloudcraft offers include visual AWS architecture, the ability to create professional AWS diagrams quickly, significant time savings during solution design, cost estimation, and having estimated infrastructure costs directly within the architecture diagram. Cloudcraft also makes collaboration easier as architecture diagrams can be shared across infrastructure teams. AWS best practice visualization is there, encouraging better architecture design by making it easy to visualize high availability, multi-AZ deployment, public versus private subnets, and security layers. Creating architecture documentation that previously required several hours can now be completed much more quickly. Architecture design and documentation have had the biggest impact on my team. These are part of our day-to-day work that were time-consuming previously, and now they are easy to accomplish.

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

Pros

"The pre-applied CIS L1 benchmark is the main selling point, as getting a hardened baseline without manual effort is genuinely useful and the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS base also means I'm on a supported, up-to-date kernel with long-term security patches."
"The hourly software charge is small relative to the engineering time we used to spend building and maintaining our own hardened AMI."
"ClearScale Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is an excellent choice for organizations adopting cloud-native technologies and modern DevOps practices."
"The same-day engineering support has been very valuable."
"Once you get that launch template dialed in, the image is incredibly solid."
"Cloudcraft has positively impacted our organization as infrastructure documentation is more consistent and easier to maintain."
"Cloudcraft is an amazing tool for this use case."
 

Cons

"The CIS L1 AppArmor enforcement breaks Docker out of the box."
"Enterprise management and compliance tooling could be more comprehensive out of the box."
"Because the firewall ships default-deny, the first launch in a new environment takes a little planning to open the exact ports the app and load balancer health checks need."
"It'd be cool to have more detailed changelogs with each new release so we can see exactly what packages got updated without having to boot up a test instance and diff it ourselves."
"There are areas for improvement in Cloudcraft, such as more cloud service coverage and quicker support for new AWS services releases."
"I think Cloudcraft can be improved by possibly being a little less expensive."
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ClearScale Ubuntu 26.04 LTS?
The hourly premium is honestly negligible compared to the salary hours I was wasting building, patching, and maintaining my own custom images. If you have a decent-sized fleet, look at the total co...
What needs improvement with ClearScale Ubuntu 26.04 LTS?
It would be cool to have more detailed changelogs with each new release so I can see exactly what packages got updated without having to boot up a test instance and diff it myself.
What is your primary use case for ClearScale Ubuntu 26.04 LTS?
I run a bunch of stateless REST APIs and web apps in AWS behind an Application Load Balancer. Everything lives in Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs). I use this AMI as the default base for those instances ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloudcraft?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is positive as Cloudcraft provides strong value to organizations requiring regulatory design documents and AWS architecture. I view the pricing...
What needs improvement with Cloudcraft?
There are areas for improvement in Cloudcraft, such as more cloud service coverage and quicker support for new AWS services releases. Real-time collaborative editing could be improved for larger in...
What is your primary use case for Cloudcraft?
As our AWS environment grew across multiple applications, accounts, and environments, maintaining architecture documentation became increasingly difficult. We started using Cloudcraft because the i...
 

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