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IBM Kubecost vs OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Kubecost
Average Rating
9.4
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Cost Management (30th)
OpenVPN Community Edition -...
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
SSL VPN (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

IBM Kubecost and OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. IBM Kubecost is designed for Cloud Cost Management and holds a mindshare of 2.3%, up 0.2% compared to last year.
OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey, on the other hand, focuses on SSL VPN, holds 1.1% mindshare.
Cloud Cost Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
IBM Kubecost2.3%
Cloudability6.7%
IBM Turbonomic6.3%
Other84.7%
Cloud Cost Management
SSL VPN Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey1.1%
Ivanti Connect Secure16.6%
Cisco Secure Client (including AnyConnect)11.7%
Other70.6%
SSL VPN
 

Featured Reviews

DIRK UYTTERHOEVEN - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Enterprise Architect at DV Consulting
Identifies and eliminates overprovisioning of expensive resources like storage, highly scalable and offers performance
I like the overall product because I can select what monitoring should be enabled and whatnot. In our case, we really focus on performance because it's clear that the price is related to most performance setups. So the more performance, the more expensive. So we look into the performance that the customer needs, and then based upon that feedback from the remote control, we change the parameters. And even the end user will not notice it is not using it, so we just make money without any impact on the end users.
reviewer2783919 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Vice President at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Secure cloud migrations have accelerated as our teams access critical workloads remotely
OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey can be improved by looking forward to recommendations regarding compute sizing, which is necessary. I have seen multiple third-party solutions demanding configurations based on compute and memory aspects. However, what I have learned from OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey is that it comes with minimal configuration, but I am always stringent about how many client VPN connections it can handle. There has to be some bifurcation regarding this. I have not experienced any access lag so far or any performance issues. I do not see any problems with the configurations or recommendations provided by OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey for 100 or 200 users simultaneously, but I still foresee a need for some recommendations from OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey regarding the number of user connections it can handle given certain configurations.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I mostly like the dashboards."
"The price is reasonable, considering the value it delivers."
"It offers a detailed examination of your cluster, including the types of instances utilized, allocated CPU and RAM, and resource distribution for specific applications."
"We use the solution to connect to our internal infrastructure in our data center."
"OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey is the best in class client VPN solution that one can opt for."
"OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey has made a remarkable compute saving from the perspective when we need secure communication to connect to the AWS cloud tenant and is a quick, efficient solution rather than looking forward to any other solution."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its stability and user-friendly UI."
 

Cons

"The integration with other solutions could be improved."
"There is a significant potential for enhancing it through the incorporation of advanced technologies like AI and generative AI."
"Faster monitoring could potentially improve overall stability in the production environment."
"The product's initial setup phase is not straightforward, making it an area where improvements are required."
"I would like to get less updates from the solution."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost of the tool may seem nominal compared to the potential savings in infrastructure expenses."
"The real savings come from using Kubecost features like autoscaling and serverless functions to optimize your resource usage. If you treat it like a data center migration without fine-tuning, it might cost more."
"The cost is cheap. Kubecost has an open-source core."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
17%
Comms Service Provider
17%
University
12%
Outsourcing Company
10%
 

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What do you like most about OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey?
The most valuable features of the solution are its stability and user-friendly UI.
What needs improvement with OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey?
All we are looking forward to is to know the configuration we have to follow if an N number of concurrent connections is required. For example, if it could have been 20 or 30, then what should be t...
What advice do you have for others considering OpenVPN Community Edition - powered by TurnKey?
All we are looking forward to is to know the configuration we have to follow if an N number of concurrent connections is required. For example, if it could have been 20 or 30, then what should be t...
 

Also Known As

Kubecost - Amazon EKS cost monitoring
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