CloudCheckr vs CloudStack comparison

Spot - A Flexera company and Apache are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. Spot - A Flexera company is ranked #31 with an average rating of 6.0, while Apache is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.2. Spot - A Flexera company holds a 1.5% mindshare in CM, compared to Apache’s 3.1% mindshare. Additionally, 75% of Spot - A Flexera company users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Apache users who would recommend it.

CloudCheckr

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

CloudStack and CloudCheckr both assist with cloud infrastructure, yet CloudStack focuses on management while CloudCheckr emphasizes cost optimization and security. CloudStack is favored for compatibility with multiple hypervisors, but CloudCheckr stands out for cost and compliance features.

Features: CloudStack offers robust hypervisor support, scalable architecture, and integration with multiple storage systems. CloudCheckr provides detailed billing analysis, security auditing, and automation tools.

Room for Improvement: CloudStack can improve by simplifying setup, enhancing user documentation, and expanding automation features. CloudCheckr could refine its user interface, reduce complexity in billing analysis, and strengthen integration with third-party tools.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: CloudStack provides a flexible open-source deployment but requires technical expertise. CloudCheckr offers guided onboarding and extensive documentation, providing a smoother deployment and structured customer service.

Pricing and ROI: CloudStack has low setup costs due to its open-source nature, offering significant ROI for technically skilled organizations. CloudCheckr's subscription might involve higher costs but delivers excellent ROI through cost management and savings features.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

CloudCheckr

Ranking in Cloud Management

31st

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Cost Management (12th), Managed Cloud Services (5th), AI Observability (24th)

CloudStack

Ranking in Cloud Management

7th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2025, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of CloudCheckr is 1.5%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CloudStack is 3.1%, down from 6.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
CloudStack	3.1%
CloudCheckr	1.5%
Other	95.4%

Cloud Management

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Peter Ramnath

Associate Director, ITSM & Onboarding at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Provides recommendations regarding how cost and consumption can be adjusted, but the reporting and analytic capabilities are very limited

We are not happy with the product’s reporting capabilities. We are planning to change the solution. The security compliance feature doesn’t give much data because CloudCheckr has done a majority of its development on AWS. The majority of our clients are on Microsoft Azure. There are a lot of features and information available for Amazon, but not for Azure. The tool wasn't meeting our expectations. The reporting and analytic capabilities are very limited. There's no ability to do scheduled email reports. The report could only be sent to a single email address. The tool was not very usable. We had multiple clients and tasks to work with.

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Tharun Kumar Reddy Thamatam

Senior Infrastructure Consultant at Infosys

Achieving seamless infrastructure management with optimized network and user access controls

I believe enhancements could be made in CloudStack, particularly in the management servers. I had the opportunity to collaborate with one of the Apache CloudStack developers, leading to the installation of additional agents for better information retrieval from hypervisors. We implemented configurations, ensuring consistency across hosts and VMs. We also utilized Ansible or YAML files to automate password upgrades during patching activities and database management, showcasing our customization efforts for improvement. For future releases, it would be beneficial if Apache enhanced CloudStack by integrating alerting systems directly. We've had instances where hypervisors experienced overloads without prior alerts, so proactive alerts within the tool would better prepare us for addressing issues swiftly, preventing disruption in business operations. A portal summarizing system metrics alongside alert capabilities would greatly enhance our operational efficiency.

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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

"The best feature I like about CloudCheckr CMx High Security is its simplicity. I love that it's not rocket science to use the solution. Even if you're not familiar with the cloud, you can easily figure out how to use CloudCheckr CMx High Security. You can use AWS, you can use Azure, and you can use GCP with the solution because the integration is quite simple. You can also use multi-cloud with it, and you could see the billing part. You'll have complete visibility into your cost which I love about the solution. I also love that data on any security issues and vulnerabilities are available on the go with CloudCheckr CMx High Security. You don't need to do anything different. Just run the scan and you'll have all these open findings in the tool, in terms of the priority level, so if it's critical, it will tell you, "It's critical," and you need to fix it right away."

"The recommendation section is pretty helpful."

"The most valuable feature of CloudCheckr CMx High Security is granular reporting. Additionally, the user interface is easy to use."

"The solution is scalable for our purposes."

"The initial setup is straightforward."

"CloudCheckr has impacted my organization positively by making things easier and saving time, approximately three hours a week."

"It will automatically suggest areas for optimization."

"It's one of the leading players for cloud optimization. It's hard to find anything better."

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"CloudStack, by default, gives us a zone-based setup which makes it easier to manage datacenters located in different geographical areas."

"It is very easy to install and manage. It has the all modules in one node, unlike other software (OpenStack). The product allows a customized look and feel, and the ability to add custom workflows."

"We like the virtualization capabilities."

"CloudStack provides an environment that is very simple to use, with built-in APIs and a web interface that supports almost all features of AWS and Azure."

"When compared to OpenStack, CloudStack is also an open-source platform that is continuously improving its features and capabilities with each new version release. Having worked with CloudStack 4.7, 4.14, and most recently, 4.17, I have noticed significant enhancements in the platform's features and customer experience, such as the introduction of a new user interface in the latest release. Notably, the latest versions have made major improvements to VM live migrations, making them more efficient and effective."

"The product gives us the ability to orchestrate large virtual environments and is flexible enough to allow us to configure it for what we need. We value the flexibility of the networking feature set as well as the ability to build virtual private clouds."

"Everything in CloudStack works effectively."

"The structuring of the components and isolated environments helped us when using parts of the framework at different levels of product development."

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Cons

"Self-healing could be a bit smoother and a bit cleaner, easier to access and more functional. That would help."

"CloudCheckr CMx High Security is complex. There are a lot of menus, and if you do not know what you are looking for you can get lost. However, the interface is self-explanatory. It's easy to understand where to go to get what you want."

"The solution needs to work better with larger capacities of data."

"The performance of the tool really needs to be improved."

"The reporting and analytic capabilities are very limited."

"What needs to be improved in CloudCheckr CMx High Security is integration. All the clouds are going quite fast, for example, all the cloud providers: Microsoft, Google, etc. CloudCheckr CMx High Security is good with AWS, no doubt about it, but with Azure and Google Cloud, I find that the solution is slow in that direction. If the vendor planned for CloudCheckr CMx High Security to be automated just for AWS, then it does make sense. If not, if the vendor is also targeting good integration with Google and Microsoft, then CloudCheckr CMx High Security integration needs improvement, in particular, it has to be faster. At the moment, its integration with Azure is not as good as its integration with AWS. With GCP, integration is nowhere."

"The solution must improve its user interface."

"Many features still need to be implemented in this tool."

"CloudStack lacks a billing solution which would complete it as a full 360-degree product."

"It's really hard to delete zones, clusters, datacenters. You need to follow strict rules, which were not properly documented at the time."

"This product needs a lot improvement on the development side. Every new version introduces new bugs. It lacks many features needed for NFV like DPDK, SR-IOV support, etc."

"The area of improvement could be the regionalization aspect. For example, managing multiple regions or HubStack deployments together was not thought out thoroughly in the versions I used. We faced issues around managing the global infrastructure and had to develop around it."

"It is not widely used so Google does not help very much when you are troubleshooting, and the CloudStack forum is not very active."

"It would be a good to have more specific error messages within administration processes (e.g. problem with creating new instance)."

"Environment is sensitive, so, unlike VMware, you can not afford middle-skilled engineers, they will ruin everything."

"It would be great to have a couple of “external” networks for VPC and have the possibility, for each domain, to choose they type of “external” network."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost is on par with other providers."

"A license is needed to use CloudCheckr CMx High Security, but because we are a managed service provider, the price of the license would vary. It depends on the type of cloud users we have, for example, it would be some type of percentage or monthly billing, etc."

"The solution is reasonably priced."

"There is no license, so the product is free unless you are buying professional technical support services."

"The Apache CloudStack is open source, so you do not have licenses to purchase."

"Give an effort to planning. If possible, contract a specialized consultant company for the initial setup and knowledge transfer."

"CloudStack is an open-source product."

"It is a 100% open-source solution needing just an Apache license. Also, there are no hidden fees to be paid."

"CloudStack is an open source solution, so you don't need to pay anything for it. When our company develops something specially for CloudStack, it is donated to the Apache Software Foundation and provided to anyone that wants to use it."

"The solution is open-source and free."

"As far as I know, CS is still free of charge. If you want to pay some money, Citrix Cloud Platform is based on CS, I think. As for hypervisors – everything as usual, you need to pay for VMware and vCenter. As for XenServer, recently they changed the free feature list, so you may need to pay some money to get useful features like XenMotion."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

10%

University

Government

Computer Software Company

16%

Educational Organization

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	7

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	12

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about CloudCheckr ?

The recommendation section is pretty helpful.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudCheckr ?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is fantastic.

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What needs improvement with CloudCheckr ?

An area where CloudCheckr can be improved is pricing. There are no other improvements needed for CloudCheckr that I haven't mentioned.

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What do you like most about CloudStack?

The initial implementation process was quite good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudStack?

CloudStack is open-source, so there is no cost apart from learning. Billing solutions, if outsourced, come at a moderate cost.

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What needs improvement with CloudStack?

Enhancements for CloudStack can focus on integrating more hypervisors, as mentioned regarding current features. We're working on a new feature that will allow for certain limited functions, but ove...

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Also Known As

CloudCheckr CMx High Security, CloudCheckr CMP

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Overview

CloudCheckr CMx High Security is a cloud management platform that provides complete visibility into cost and security issues. The primary use cases are day-to-day operations, cloud management, identifying open vulnerabilities and issues from a security perspective, and cost management and optimization.

The solution is praised for its stability, simplicity, ease of use, scalability, excellent technical support, and granular reporting. CloudCheckr CMx High Security provides priority-level data on security issues and vulnerabilities, making it easy to identify critical issues that need immediate attention.

Spot - A Flexera company

Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.

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Accenture, Logitech, Ingram, Cloudar, Infor, DXC, Cornell University, DLT, Lumen, Lightstream, Choice Hotels, B-Tech, SmileShark, PTP, Explicity, JCH Technology, Siemens Mobility

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