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We performed a comparison between Cloudify and Rapid7 InsightCloudSec based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Cloud Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Cloudify vs. Rapid7 InsightCloudSec Report (Updated: May 2024).
771,212 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"Has great extendability which means you can build your own custom logic.""Cloudify works in cases where you have very advanced service chaining requirements. It really works well there, and it fits the best. They have a standardized markup that's based on TOSCA, which is a standard. I like the fact that they're standards-based. Their solution works extremely well if you have the talent and the manpower to write TOSCA descriptors to deploy and interchange services or to automate the configuration and turn up of services.""Extensible internal functions and plugins. Can implement custom plugins to fit your scenario. Python based plugins.""Product has given us the ability to catch early scaling issues that many companies hit on with private clouds.""Valuable features are auto-scaling and load balancing.""TOSCA model allows modeling the application rather than the automation. It is a machine-readable representation of the application and its infrastructure, which can be used for other things too, not just for the orchestration (e.g. enterprise architecture big picture, who connects to whom).""Cloudify provides the infrastructure-as-code, as well as operational action capabilities (orchestrated startups or upgrades, and more).""It enables a single platform to communicate with the entire infrastructure."

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"Agentless scanning is a possible use with Rapid7 InsightCloudSec.""I find the security frameworks and security tools valuable. I think they're good in the infrastructure of the code security. They are also good at threat protection.""The tool's most valuable feature is workload protection for Kubernetes and container security. It has agents that identify bugs or lack of security on runtime containers.""The tool provides centralized visibility through dashboards and alerts, allowing customers to receive reports on cloud vulnerabilities and security posture. Rapid7 InsightCloudSec provides customers with a robust understanding of cloud security."

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Cons
"Unlike the Docker environment, Cloudify takes time for configuration and its learning curve.""Error handling could be improved; GUI is lacking with respect to user privileges and connectivity.""The solution is a bit of a headache because mistakes happen in the blueprint every time we deploy and they require modifications.""Certainly the UI could use some intensive work, but nevertheless, overall, it’s a complete product with its 3.4 version and much better features are available with 4.0.""Install of the product itself could be improved and I would like to see better event monitoring.""The upgrading process could be simplified.""It lacked the user interface for multitenancy and basic platform management tasks. It is a leader in the niche area that they like to perform in, but it only does about 30% of top-tier advanced functions of platform management. It doesn't meet about 70% of what you need to manage a private cloud platform."

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"Technical support could be better. It could also be easier, more user-friendly, and intuitive. The API keys aren't easy to understand, and the cloud layouts aren't intuitive and user-friendly. We should be able to integrate IM governance and APIs into non-compliant workloads like legacy solutions.""Rapid7 InsightCloudSec could be better at showing dashboards for virtual firewalls and appliances. Compared to other solutions like Palo Alto, this area is not as good. So, they should work on improving this for virtual devices.""The tool needs to improve its documentation.""There are a lot of other solutions in the market, not only providing the features of a CSPM, but also CNAPP."

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  • "I wasn't involved in the pricing of it because we were just doing prototype work with it, but I was told by the upper management team that it was quite expensive. That was another reason we switched to Morpheus."
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  • "We're doing an annual subscription. There are additional expenses, but not within the confines of this platform."
  • "Companies generally buy this tool because the pricing is not that high."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:It enables a single platform to communicate with the entire infrastructure.
    Top Answer:The solution could be improved with respect to error handling. If the deployment fails, we get an error message. If we want to troubleshoot further and deep dive, we don't have access to admin… more »
    Top Answer:Cloudify is a DevOps tool that we use for spinning up the VM. In order to do that it needs to communicate with the IP address, with the storage, the network, and with ServiceNow. It communicates with… more »
    Top Answer:The tool provides centralized visibility through dashboards and alerts, allowing customers to receive reports on cloud vulnerabilities and security posture. Rapid7 InsightCloudSec provides customers… more »
    Top Answer:Companies generally buy this tool because the pricing is not that high. ICS's pricing is still per the market standard, but there are a lot of other solutions that are more expensive than Rapid7 ICs… more »
    Top Answer:Rapid7 InsightCloudSec could be better at showing dashboards for virtual firewalls and appliances. Compared to other solutions like Palo Alto, this area is not as good. So, they should work on… more »
    Ranking
    20th
    out of 75 in Cloud Management
    Views
    1,330
    Comparisons
    751
    Reviews
    4
    Average Words per Review
    596
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    8.5
    31st
    out of 75 in Cloud Management
    Views
    108
    Comparisons
    77
    Reviews
    3
    Average Words per Review
    568
    Rating
    7.3
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    Overview

    Cloudify is an open-source orchestration-first cloud management platform. The solution allows applications to efficiently run across multiple cloud or data center platforms for premium multi-cloud infrastructure automation and orchestration. It provides infrastructure automation using environment as a service (EaaS) technology to deploy and continuously manage any cloud, private data center, or Kubernetes service from one central point while leveraging existing toolchains.

    Cloudify Product Highlights

    • Fully customizable (white label, add, and modify widgets)
    • Create a custom view per business units, groups, user role
    • Easy integration with any 3rd-party/homegrown portal
    • Identify and eliminate task execution failures via a visual interface
    • Easy service composition that allows you to create new or update existing services
    • Switch between code and topology views
    • Import existing automation templates and scripts into Cloudify and automatically convert them into certified environments.
    • Intelligent and declarative engine that automates the entire lifecycle management
    • Intuitive UX and dashboards allowing complete visibility and control over usage, behavior, faults, and events of application/network services.

    Cloudify Features

    Cloudify has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Elastic caching
    • Post-deployment automation
    • Deployment monitoring
    • Service catalog
    • Real-time code validation
    • Plugins (Kubernetes, Ansible, AWS Cloud Formation, Azure ARM, Terraform)
    • Advanced Kubernetes management UI
    • Multi cluster action
    • Governance and compliance
    • Self-serve experience

    Cloudify Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing Cloudify. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Operation agility: Cloudify gives your organization and DevOps teams the ability to react to resource needs, evolve, and adapt quickly over time. 
    • Self-service: Cloudify provides a self-service catalog and portal framework for cloud automation and cloud orchestration to provide a helpful and intuitive experience for environments, apps, and services setup and management.
    • Real-time visibility: Cloudify enables you to visually track all task executions. By implementing Cloudify, you can monitor progress and status of each execution step on Cloudify’s cloud orchestration platform, identify and eliminate task execution failures via a visual interface, and you can also apply management actions, such as stop, correct, and resume, quickly. 
    • Reduce design and configuration time: The Cloudify solution has a visual editor, allowing greater visibility into blueprint structure and dependencies, and drag-n-drop service composition that helps you leverage shared resources and components for ultimate open-source infrastructure and cloud orchestration.
    • Fast deployment: Another benefit of Cloudify is that it helps speed up deployments of your test/dev/production environments from your CI/CD.
    • Enables continuous updates: With Cloudify, you have continuous updates for your production environments. Cloudify enables your organization to monitor health, heal failures, update patches, and scale resources without any environment downtime.
    • Governance: By using the Cloudify solution, you can accommodate governance changes and can scale and update operations according to your certified architecture. 
    • Easier to manage Kubernetes: Cloudify makes it simple for you to manage multi Kubernetes clusters via service orchestration, enabling you to manage the application service itself rather than just its infrastructure. 
    • Cost optimization: With Cloudify, you can control costs by employing end-to-end modeling of the entire infrastructure. The solution offers cost-saving policies, which include the decommissioning of formerly complex services and resources.

    Detect cloud risk immediately with real-time, agentless visibility into everything running across your entire environment. Know exactly which risk signals to prioritize thanks to complete context, with the broadest and deepest coverage across major cloud platforms. Enforce organizational standards, streamline the remediation process, and fix compliance drift immediately with native, no-code automation.

    Sample Customers
    Proximus Partner Communications (Israel) VMware NTT Data Metaswitch Spirent Communications Lumina Networks Atos Fortinet
    Fannie Mae, 3M, PizzaHut, Spotify, Autodesk, Discovery
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company21%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Retailer6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company14%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Retailer8%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business33%
    Large Enterprise67%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise60%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise67%
    Buyer's Guide
    Cloudify vs. Rapid7 InsightCloudSec
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudify vs. Rapid7 InsightCloudSec and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
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    Cloudify is ranked 20th in Cloud Management with 12 reviews while Rapid7 InsightCloudSec is ranked 31st in Cloud Management with 3 reviews. Cloudify is rated 8.0, while Rapid7 InsightCloudSec is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Cloudify writes "Works very well for advanced service chaining requirements and has extremely advanced engineers for support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rapid7 InsightCloudSec writes "Agentless scanning helps monitor workloads, but the solution needs a better UI and should include CNAPP features ". Cloudify is most compared with Morpheus, CloudStack, VMware Aria Automation, OpenNebula and Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), whereas Rapid7 InsightCloudSec is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Wiz, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks and AWS Security Hub. See our Cloudify vs. Rapid7 InsightCloudSec report.

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