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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 (8th)
VMware Cloud Director
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
71
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 4.2%, up 4.1% compared to last year.
VMware Cloud Director, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Management, holds 2.5% mindshare, down 6.3% since last year.
Cloud Migration Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
AWS Application Migration Service4.2%
IBM Turbonomic6.4%
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP6.2%
Other83.2%
Cloud Migration
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
VMware Cloud Director2.5%
VMware Aria Automation5.5%
IBM Turbonomic4.7%
Other87.3%
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

"The most valuable feature is the live, block-to-block replication."
"The installation process and configuration processes are very straightforward, and in terms of maintenance, it's pretty easy as one person can handle it."
"AWS Application Migration Service allows us to perform migrations with minimal downtime, which is crucial for our operations."
"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."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...I rate the solution's support a ten out of ten."
"Live Migration's best feature is that it's free."
"The CloudEndure feature is most valuable because it is user friendly and very simple."
"I rate AWS Application Migration Service a nine out of ten overall."
"It has helped us develop a better way of selling services to customers, evolve from the typical housing, and make revenues for the Telefonica company."
"We use the solution to connect clouds to different clouds."
"The main valuable feature of vCloud Director is its ability to segregate tenants, as we have multiple customers, and this segregation allows them to use their own networking and manage the AVMs."
"The most valuable feature of vCloud Director for me is its user-friendly UI, which is much easier compared to other platforms."
"It has enabled us to provision new clients faster; we don't have to configure a new host nor configure a new VM, we just have to secure it."
"Creating a virtual machine is relatively easy, VMware provides a pretty standard catalog of virtual machines."
"If a customer is looking for disaster recovery at a cheaper price, this is the best solution."
"I like the networking and the flexibility of handling workloads within vCloud Director for virtual data center management."
 

Cons

"However, I give it a six mainly due to the compatibility issues with legacy systems, which is an individual problem I am currently facing."
"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."
"I do not see any improvements required for the CloudEndure."
"One drawback to using CloudEndure is that the default is to give one small, lightweight server, which is created in the cloud."
"Live Migration has some issues with target setups."
"There are some features in the Migration Factory that could be integrated directly into AWS Application Migration Service."
"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."
"I feel like vCloud is two years behind the feature set – in terms of the UI, and vCenter. I can't do the same tasks that I can do in terms of UI as with vCenter."
"I would like to see mode accessory recovery and integration with SD-WAN."
"vCloud Director is an expensive solution."
"The tool's price is one of the challenges we faced with the solution, making it an area requiring improvement."
"In version 6.7, compatibility to migrate VMs from a vCenter to vCloud Director had a problem. However, this has been solved in the newest version."
"It would be nice to see some new features in respect of the GUI."
"There didn't seem to be any type of integrated path on how to do the initial setup. There seemed to be different bits of paperwork or instructions available from various places. We always had to go looking for what to do next."
"In the next release, we would like to see improvements with the pricing. It could be reduced."
 

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."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing eight and a half to nine out of ten."
"The price of the solution is expensive."
"It enables us to provision new clients more quickly."
"The license could be less expensive and we are on a perpetual license."
"I believe the pricing is reasonable."
"I recommend using the Enterprise or Enterprise Plus licenses because they unlock all of the solution's capabilities."
"It runs our company in the millions of rand every month."
"We pay monthly for all of the licenses."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Marketing Services Firm
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Construction Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Construction Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Computer Software 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?
I've never really looked at AWS Application Migration Service in a way of improving. There's always room for improvement, but I think we can improve the automation. It's already automated, but some...
What is your primary use case for CloudEndure Live Migration?
I use AWS Application Migration Service to install application servers.
What advice do you have for others considering CloudEndure Live Migration?
The main challenge I faced during migration was actually doing the migration itself. At first, I had to find a way to move or replicate the information to the cloud, which was way too manual. I thi...
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
MicroStrategy, National Democratic Institute, and NYSE Euronext.
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