

Find out in this report how the two Cloud Cost Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
With 20 reports every month, that's 80 hours saved, equating to two man-weeks per month, or $8,000 in savings based on a $100 hourly rate for my architect.
We suggested they proceed with CoreStack, and after onboarding it to our offering, within three months, we received positive feedback from customers that we were able to reduce some of their costs.
It generates value addition on top of the Trusted Advisor report, which saves major effort for our resources.
The biggest ROI comes from faster software delivery and improved engineering productivity.
By adopting templates and various different pipelines across our own IDP platform, we have saved upwards of 30 to 40% of development time.
With Harness, the release process decreased from three or four hours to one or two hours, making deployments much quicker.
CoreStack has positively impacted my organization by saving hours of time for reporting—for example, the governance report which my employees used to take at least four hours for one customer.
I have interacted with CoreStack's customer support, and we managed to obtain a technical demo from their team for my team from time to time.
We have rarely faced issues with Harness tech support.
We have not faced any customer support issues, with tickets resolved in less than a four-day SLA.
I have not required extensive customer support involvement, as the documentation is well-structured.
It generates and captures metrics of your workload, which meets our requirements all the time.
We haven't encountered any issues regarding scalability; the SaaS platform easily accommodates our growth.
Our entire organization uses it with hundreds of applications, and it supports this scale effectively.
It is able to work on our infrastructure side, which is EKS, and we are able to handle our organization growth effectively for an enterprise use case.
It handles increasing complexity in deployment pipelines and maintains high release frequency without any issues.
Deployment pipelines, rollback systems, and performance reliability have been excellent even during high deployment activity.
Harness is completely stable, and we are using it in production without facing any stability issues at all.
We have rarely faced issues with Harness tech support.
The recommendations made in CoreStack to delete a machine have the potential to generate major cost savings.
We need more security features, particularly since the market is increasingly demanding better security tools for cloud management platforms, including cloud security posture assessments.
Adding features to automate tasks at the operations level could help provide better visibility across the cloud for our operational engineers.
There is not a lot of good support for pipeline as code, and I often find myself not using pipeline as code the way other platforms such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins integrate pipeline as code.
Improved documentation and onboarding tutorials would help accelerate adoption.
One key area for improvement is simplifying the onboarding of new users; the reduction of platform complexity will help new users understand how all components interact, which feels initially very difficult.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is straightforward and has flexible pricing based on workload consumption.
I believe has been competitively priced across the market.
From what I understand with respect to Harness, licensing and setup costs were relatively low for an enterprise, and the pricing was more catered toward enterprises who would invest in the technology.
However, once Harness was fully integrated into our workflow, the operational benefits became clear, justifying the investment for our use case, despite the slightly higher cost for smaller teams.
The single pane of glass for multi-cloud cost optimization helps me day-to-day by bringing a lot of operational excellence; it saves a lot of time because rather than going to each and every account or multi-cloud portal, which takes a lot of time, having everything on a single pane of glass increases efficiency, delivers results in less time, and provides clear reporting that can be shared with the customer in PDF or CSV formats.
The best features CoreStack offers are primarily the recommendations for cost optimization for RDS and EC2 machines.
For example, from AWS, it provides visibility on EBS volumes that are not being used, and it gives recommendations to delete them and save some cost.
Harness uses AI to suggest errors in case of deployment failures.
The platform also supports cloud-native environments and Kubernetes deployments, making pipeline management easier, and its automation capabilities significantly improve speed and reliability.
The unified platform through Harness is extremely valuable because it has reduced our tool sprawl; instead of maintaining separate CI/CD, feature flagging, and verification tools, we can now manage everything effectively.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Harness | 2.2% |
| CoreStack | 1.3% |
| Other | 96.5% |

| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 3 |
| Large Enterprise | 8 |
CoreStack offers powerful FinOps and governance capabilities, automated remediation, and cost optimization recommendations in a unified interface for multi-cloud environments, enhancing compliance and boosting cloud cost efficiency by 15%.
CoreStack's comprehensive approach to cloud management supports AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. Its features streamline cost management, tagging, and resource usage, providing crucial insights for policy management and spend tracking. By aligning governance with organizational structures and offering compliance with CIS benchmarks, CoreStack delivers detailed cost insights and optimizes billing operations. This reduces cloud spending and supports BillOps for generating customer invoices. While CoreStack excels in these areas, there's potential to improve stability, scalability, and UI responsiveness. Enhanced integration with SOAR platforms and addressing XDR console challenges would also be beneficial.
What are CoreStack's key features?In industries relying on cloud infrastructure, CoreStack proves invaluable for teams managing complex, multi-cloud environments. By integrating seamlessly with AWS, Azure, and GCP, organizations in sectors like finance, healthcare, and IT enjoy enhanced governance and FinOps capabilities, reducing costs and optimizing cloud operations.
Harness offers a comprehensive toolset for automating deployment processes and enhancing software update efficiency. It's lauded for its CI/CD capabilities, feature flagging, and real-time deployment monitoring. Key features include an intuitive UI, secret management, and robust rollback functionalities, all contributing to improved productivity and reduced errors in DevOps environments.
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