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Cloudcraft vs ECS-Optimized Windows comparison

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

Categories and Ranking

Cloudcraft
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
40th
Average Rating
9.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
ECS-Optimized Windows
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
30th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the AWS Marketplace category, the mindshare of Cloudcraft is 0.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ECS-Optimized Windows is 0.2%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AWS Marketplace Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ECS-Optimized Windows0.2%
Cloudcraft0.2%
Other99.6%
AWS Marketplace
 

Featured Reviews

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.
SC
Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
Preconfigured containers have cut licensing costs and now save our team time with faster booting
ECS-Optimized Windows can improve by giving us new generation instances rather than the old generation's AMD chips or other older technology. It should use the new generation instances, and it should also modernize the storage and the file systems that it is using because those are very old and sometimes problematic. It should also improve or add advanced configurations to the things that we are doing so it can help us and give us more efficiency and productivity in our team. It should give us good analysis, particularly more detailed analysis, with the AWS tools because it is operated by AWS. It is cloud-based, and we are getting it from AWS, so they should also integrate it with AWS better.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Cloudcraft is an amazing tool for this use case."
"Cloudcraft has positively impacted our organization as infrastructure documentation is more consistent and easier to maintain."
"Our teams can scale at least 40% faster than before, accounting for waiting for it to boot and load everything."
"After deploying our Windows workloads using ECS-Optimized Windows on AWS, we saw improved reliability and measurable operational efficiencies."
"ECS-Optimized Windows has positively impacted my organization because I have been using it for proof of concepts and it increases the speed of running them because I do not have to worry about creating my own image."
 

Cons

"I think Cloudcraft can be improved by possibly being a little less expensive."
"There are areas for improvement in Cloudcraft, such as more cloud service coverage and quicker support for new AWS services releases."
"ECS-Optimized Windows can improve by giving us new generation instances rather than the old generation's AMD chips or other older technology."
"One problem with ECS-Optimized Windows is that the image size is quite large."
"Improvements for ECS-Optimized Windows could include faster Windows patch cycles, a lighter AMI footprint for quicker boot times, better visibility into container-level performance metrics, and improved cost optimization guidance."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
46%
Comms Service Provider
18%
Healthcare Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
4%
Construction Company
40%
Comms Service Provider
14%
Healthcare Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ECS-Optimized Windows?
I think ECS includes licenses, so it reduces the stress. Also, the cost is very low, at $0.04 per hour per version of the CPU. We can also get our own license. It follows the BYOL method. I told yo...
What needs improvement with ECS-Optimized Windows?
ECS-Optimized Windows can improve by giving us new generation instances rather than the old generation's AMD chips or other older technology. It should use the new generation instances, and it shou...
What is your primary use case for ECS-Optimized Windows?
My main use case for ECS-Optimized Windows involves utilizing the machines offered by AWS, which means a workload like the image of Windows, exactly. It is provided by AWS with right-sizing for the...
 

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