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AWS Application Migration Service vs VMware Cloud Director comparison

 

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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 Application Migration S...
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.3
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Migration (6th)
VMware Cloud Director
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
70
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Cloud Infrastructure and Tools solutions, they serve different purposes. AWS Application Migration Service is designed for Cloud Migration and holds a mindshare of 4.5%, up 3.6% compared to last year.
VMware Cloud Director, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Management, holds 2.7% mindshare, down 6.6% since last year.
Cloud Migration Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
AWS Application Migration Service4.5%
IBM Turbonomic6.7%
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP6.2%
Other82.6%
Cloud Migration
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
VMware Cloud Director2.7%
VMware Aria Automation5.8%
IBM Turbonomic4.7%
Other86.8%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

Terence Dube - PeerSpot reviewer
AWS Cloud Engineer at Standard Telephones and Cables
Automation has simplified migrations and now needs to address complex legacy compatibility
The features I like the most about AWS Application Migration Service is its ease of use. That's the main thing. It's ease of use, and they have a detailed walkthrough, especially depending on different operating systems. The automation capabilities of AWS actually eliminate the long time and input that I have to put into migration. These days, I just run the agent, and then the agent does the job. All I have to do is actually look at the current migration status on the AWS dashboard. When it's done, I then do a quick switch over to the cloud. The key thing I really love is the simple moving of files from on-prem to the cloud.
KuldeepSingh4 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Experienced users benefit from resource isolation and valuable self-service portal while seeing potential in enhanced infrastructure visibility
VMware is not going further with VMware Cloud Director. They are integrating the VMware Cloud Director feature with Aria Automation only for the upcoming versions, primarily with the VCF 9, and slowly they are integrating some of the parts they have already integrated, and they might not continue with VMware Cloud Director in the future. They can make it more granular to ensure hardware-level segregation, the underlying infrastructure level of segregation for the end user, and a separate security boundary where users can access the end-to-end layer. End-to-end layer means my software layer along with the hardware layer. If they want to do a certain level of troubleshooting primarily on the ESXi part, that is what I feel is lacking for now because for an end user accessing the SSP, the underlying infrastructure is a kind of black box for them. For VMware Cloud Director, it can be more comprehensive if we enable public cloud integration as well. In today's date, customers are adopting a multi-cloud environment where VMware Cloud Director is much feasible to leverage the underlying VMware backend architecture. If VMware Cloud Director could be made to have more integration with the public cloud and do the day one, day two jobs for public cloud interface as well, that would be beneficial. Additionally, I recommend leveraging the VMware Cloud Director layer if a customer has a multi-cloud environment and is planning some cross-cloud migration capability. Cross-cloud migration refers to if a customer has something on Azure, wanting to bring it up on VMware or maybe from VMware to AWS, vice versa. In that case, VMware Cloud Director should provide some cross-cloud migration capability as well.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"CloudEndure is a product that I recommend to my customers because it's very easy to implement, configure, and use."
"The features I like the most about AWS Application Migration Service is its ease of use, and they have a detailed walkthrough, especially depending on different operating systems, while the automation capabilities eliminate the long time and input that I have to put into migration."
"AWS Application Migration Service allows us to perform migrations with minimal downtime, which is crucial for our operations."
"The most valuable feature is the live, block-to-block replication."
"The product is reasonably priced."
"The installation process and configuration processes are very straightforward, and in terms of maintenance, it's pretty easy as one person can handle it."
"Live Migration's best feature is that it's free."
"Live Migration's best feature is that it's free."
"We use the infrastructure as a service cloud, that is, we use the features as infrastructure for this. We are not using any platform services."
"The most valuable features are the multi-tenancy and multi-site configuration."
"vCloud Director has improved our organization in so far as it is an easy solution to sell. I believe this is the case due to the fact that it is an easy tool to manage and to configure."
"Working with VMware has supported us especially in terms of building a very powerful cloud for our customers."
"We use vCloud Director as a multiple cloud management solution."
"We can run it on self-hosted systems, and we are happy with the stability of vCloud Director."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is its ability to host customers on their own cloud."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director is virtualization."
 

Cons

"I do not see any improvements required for the CloudEndure."
"Live Migration has some issues with target setups."
"I think it is important to have more logs, and more details would be great because we have just logged on the client's side, but there weren't many details on the cloud."
"The schema conversion is not included in the document management services itself. Complex formations require additional steps."
"We would like to have a disaster recovery feature included in this solution."
"However, I give it a six mainly due to the compatibility issues with legacy systems, which is an individual problem I am currently facing."
"We would like to have a disaster recovery feature included in this solution."
"One drawback to using CloudEndure is that the default is to give one small, lightweight server, which is created in the cloud."
"It could be more stable. We have had issues with multiple different versions."
"vCloud Director should improve by having support with other cloud providers, such as Microsoft Azure and Google cloud."
"If you use it for a lot of customers, it is too heavy for this solution."
"If I just need to look for something quickly, it's quite difficult to find it with the way it's set up now. They should make the search button better."
"Technical support is something that we've had problems with in the past. Across all of the VMware solutions we have not always had the best response from support."
"If I just need to look for something quickly, it's quite difficult to find it with the way it's set up now. They should make the search button better."
"There are new updates every quarter, so we need to purchase new support deployment services and some new products."
"If you have a deployed environment and lose it, you can't easily deploy it back with vCloud Director. Because of this reason, we don't have the data protection, disaster recovery, and container features."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"For me, the price of the tool is cheap and very good. It is flexible pricing since you pay just for what you use."
"Live Migration's price is good."
"In certain cases, the price of Cloud Director is quite high, especially with the load balancing and other features they've introduced. That seems quite costly. Overall, for VSPP programming, I think it's okay. However, features like enterprise load balancing and all these other things are very costly."
"It's a costly product. The licenses may not be costly, but with every new development in their product, we need to purchase deployment services, and the deployment services are quite costly."
"We are paying around $ 15,000 per month for vCloud Director, and it would be nice if it could be made cheaper."
"The price of the solution is expensive."
"The solution is costly, efficient, and robust versus alternative solutions."
"If ten is very expensive, I rate the tool's price as a four out of ten."
"It enables us to provision new clients more quickly."
"If one means a very bad price, and ten means a very good price, I rate the price as a five on a scale of one to ten."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Marketing Services Firm
11%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Real Estate/Law Firm
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Construction Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business24
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise39
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with CloudEndure Live Migration?
The schema conversion is not included in the document management services itself. Complex formations require additional steps. Furthermore, I noticed that performance can vary with the source and t...
What is your primary use case for CloudEndure Live Migration?
For the moment, I am using AWS Application Migration Service for database migration. The first use case involves moving from on-premise to EC2 hosts. Additionally, I have worked with multi-region r...
What advice do you have for others considering CloudEndure Live Migration?
The service is not complicated; I find it easy to use. For those considering AWS Application Migration Service, the advice depends on their specific needs. If it involves database migration, especi...
Would you change anything about VMware vCloud Director if you could?
VMware vCloud Director works very well and there are not many things that I would like to see changed. However, a single thing comes to mind when I think of improvements and that is integration. In...
What is the biggest improvement you saw at your company after you started using VMware vCloud Director?
For my company, VMware vCloud Director noticeably increased operational efficiency. When I started working here a few years ago, my organization was using another cloud management tool. We switched...
Is vCloud Director convenient for building applications?
When it comes to building applications, vCloud Director offers you various methods to create cloud-ready ones. For example: Your DevOps team is supported through Infrastructure as Code services w...
 

Also Known As

CloudEndure Live Migration
vCloud Director
 

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Sample Customers

Agio, Cloud Nation, Limelight Networks
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