CloudAware vs Red Hat CloudForms comparison

CloudAware and Red Hat are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. CloudAware is ranked #34 with an average rating of 9.0, while Red Hat is ranked #33. CloudAware holds a 0.4% mindshare in CM, compared to Red Hat’s 1.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of CloudAware users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 66% of Red Hat users who would recommend it.

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66% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

CloudAware

Ranking in Cloud Management

34th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (27th)

Red Hat CloudForms

Ranking in Cloud Management

33rd

Average Rating

6.4

Reviews Sentiment

5.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of CloudAware is 0.4%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat CloudForms is 1.9%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Red Hat CloudForms	1.9%
CloudAware	0.4%
Other	97.7%

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Manmohan Rao

Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited

Cloud cost visibility has improved and workload assessments now support stronger business cases

I am looking forward to more workload observability. The second thing is mostly looking forward to know cost optimization and how we can be able to manage multiple hyperscaler workloads from a single platform. I am looking forward to a monitoring solution that can monitor all hyperscaler services because AWS does have their 250 plus managed services offering. We have workload running in Kubernetes, Docker, EC2, RDS. I need a single platform that will monitor all these services which are being running in the cloud platform. Customer support is good. Whenever I have interacted with them, I got the required response from them. That is pretty much good. The organizations that are looking forward and have enterprise grade workload running in their public cloud platform, I would definitely recommend them to start using CloudAware because that is going to bring in value addition for them which they might not be aware of while using by themselves.

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Ilhami Arikan

Cloud Services Automation Technologies Manager at Garanti Teknoloji

A stable solution that helps to provision servers

We use the solution to provision servers. I am impressed with the product's ability to create dynamic catalogs. The solution's provisioning engine needs to be improved. I would rate the solution's stability an eight out of ten. I would rate the product's scalability a seven out of ten and…

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I utilized it in one of the use cases for workload assessment and definitely it has brought in the value as a return of investment to us, because that was the assessment I was doing for one of our end customers."

"The optimization of the solution is quite interesting, as it means we can prepare a bunch of VMs with self-service provisioning."

"The integration with other open-source tools is pretty good; it integrates particularly well with Kubernetes and Docker, and they are a very mature product."

"Red Hat CloudForms is stable once it is up and running."

"The multi-tenancy feature has been very helpful for our clients, it has been working fine and seamlessly for them, its interface is also very simplified, and it is also an open and easy-to-scale solution."

"The optimization of the solution is quite interesting."

"Red Hat CloudForms is stable once it is up and running."

"The stability of the solution is very good, and we haven't had any issues with it."

"The most valuable features of Red Hat CloudForms are the benefit of the collective functionality."

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Cons

"I am looking forward for a positive contribution because as per the research I did so far, it is going to benefit us if we start utilizing it, but I am a little concerned of whether it will fit in all our requirements."

"The problem is that the platform requires it to be maintained and updated. Also, a few cases are still pending with the Red Hat support team since they are not closed yet."

"All of the areas of Red Hat CloudForms could improve. It doesn't do half of the things that it says it can do out of the box. It takes configuration to make any of it work, which is not uncommon for solutions similar to this. However, it is frustrating."

"Red Hat CloudForms could improve by allowing more customization of reports. We have to do a lot of coding to accomplish what we want."

"Because the solution needs to integrate with other products that surround it, there is a lot of configuration required, and this can be quite complex. It's not as easy as it is with, for example, VMware."

"I have issues with the solution's permissions. Unlike VMware, the product doesn't allow folder-type permissions."

"The solution's provisioning engine needs to be improved."

"It is difficult to create a complete dashboard that includes all the needed features or catalogs."

"The complexity of the solution is a bit high in comparison to VMware."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Red Hat CloudForms has a subscript-based pricing model. The cost is approximately $20,000 annually which allows you to use as many users as you want."

"Red Hat CloudForms is a bit expensive."

"It is definitely cheaper than VMware. Everything is included. There is no challenge there."

"The price of Red Hat CloudForms was not competitive, it was expensive."

"The product's licensing is based on the number of servers."

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Manufacturing Company

15%

Computer Software Company

13%

Construction Company

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Company Size

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Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Large Enterprise	7

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudAware?

That is pretty much good. I found it quite reasonable from the cost perspective.

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What needs improvement with CloudAware?

I am not exactly using CloudAware. I am looking forward to know about what CloudAware is doing. I need some cost optimization solution for a workload running in AWS. I want better dashboards and al...

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What is your primary use case for CloudAware?

We have almost 1 million of ARR workload running in AWS which includes 100 to 200 virtual machines as EC2 and RDS. We are struggling to map what exactly the cost optimization strategy we need to fo...

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Overview

CloudAware offers robust cloud management solutions, enabling efficient infrastructure monitoring, cost optimization, and compliance adherence across various platforms. Users appreciate its CMDB for resource tracking, automated security protocols, and enhanced cost management features, which collectively enhance operational efficiency and foster better team collaboration.

CloudAware

Manage container, virtual, private, and public cloud infrastructures

Managing a complex, hybrid IT environment can require multiple management tools, redundant policy implementations, and extra staff to handle the operations. Red Hat® CloudForms simplifies IT, providing unified management and operations in a hybrid environment.

As your IT infrastructure progresses from traditional virtualization toward an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) model, CloudForms evolves, protecting your investments and providing consistent user experience and functionality.

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Sample Customers

Sony, AOL, Thomson Reuters, Pearson

Cox Automotive, Penn State, FICO, G-ABLE, Seneca College, ITandTEL, The Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (PLUS), MyRepublic, Macquarie, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, CBTS, Network Data Solutions (NDS)

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