No more typing reviews! Try our Samantha, our new voice AI agent.

North Cloud vs Umbrella comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary

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

North Cloud
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
9th
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
3.9
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Umbrella
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
28th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of North Cloud is 1.1%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Umbrella is 0.7%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
North Cloud1.1%
Umbrella0.7%
Other98.2%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

Evan Kesten - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO & Co-Founder at Cabinet
Need broader cloud savings but have reduced compute costs and extended financial runway
I have found the integration very seamless and easy. The best features North Cloud offers are easy onboarding integration and a non-invasive business model. I find the easy onboarding integration and non-invasive business model to be the best features because we were able to reduce spend on our AWS bill without using any internal employee hours and without worrying about any complicated account changes.
Srivathsanr R. - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Business Finance at Zensar Technologies
Gained clearer financial governance and have improved cloud cost visibility and forecasting
I do not feel that anything needs to be changed. Umbrella is solving the purpose and is on point. The UI is intuitive and user-friendly. The learning curve is very easy. The features provided are on point. There is no downtime or challenges, and it is easy to learn and easy to use. In total, I do not feel that improvement is needed as per our organizational use case. Maybe for other organizations, they might have some suggestions, but for our organization specifically, I do not feel that they are lacking somewhere. It is already providing us the best thing. Almost everything is working as we expect. Small things we do not always point out. I feel that it works well and we do not have such problems with them specifically.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"North Cloud has been a great partner in helping us navigate cloud cost savings."
"North Cloud is super valuable in just allowing us to focus on where we add the most value to our organization and not have to worry about operational overhead such as cost savings plans."
"North Cloud has positively impacted my organization by reducing our AWS bill by 15%."
"North has been an excellent partner in managing our AWS costs."
"North Cloud was able to get us access to savings plans that cut approximately 20% from our monthly AWS costs."
"Overall, Umbrella is a great product, and I have not seen any room for improvement."
"Anyone who is looking for a dedicated FinOps and AI anomaly detection and forecasting platform, which is good with transparent and clear costs and is also cheap compared to other solutions, can definitely give Umbrella a try."
"Umbrella has positively impacted our organization by blocking some of the traffic, including some of the domains that were usually being generated."
"Umbrella has positively impacted my organization by allowing our IT team to know that our users and our remote locations are having safe traffic and lowering the risk of malicious active actions and people going to the wrong websites, giving us ease of mind."
"The job was done properly without getting into specific or complex situations, and it replied to our expectations."
 

Cons

"I'm not really sure how North Cloud can be improved, but if I had to pick something, maybe some integrations with Slack or something, because it can be a bit difficult to jump around different panels."
"I think North Cloud could be improved with additional savings for more AWS services."
"Umbrella can be improved because whenever a VPN connection is established, Umbrella may or may not work properly, and in this case, we face a challenge."
"Umbrella has a tier-restricted feature in the base package that lacks advanced features such as URL-level filtering or inspection and requires more expensive subscriptions."
"Umbrella can be improved with easier migration and easier deployment, as we had to get some really specialized users in to deploy the software."
report
Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Cloud Cost Management solutions are best for your needs.
894,738 professionals have used our research since 2012.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
36%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Computer Software Company
17%
Construction Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Comms Service Provider
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with North Cloud?
North recently added support for database reservations, which would have been next on my wish list. I look forward to their menu expanding as AWS adds additional savings vehicles.
What advice do you have for others considering North Cloud?
The team is extremely helpful and communicative. Immediately upon working with them, they set up a Slack connect channel and give you a live line of communication with someone in their engineering ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Umbrella?
On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Umbrella an eight because the deployment and the ease of use can always be improved, but the actual product itself is pretty well done.
What needs improvement with Umbrella?
Umbrella can be improved because whenever a VPN connection is established, Umbrella may or may not work properly, and in this case, we face a challenge. They have to improve this part. If they have...
What is your primary use case for Umbrella?
Umbrella is mainly used for DNS security, and since we are in a hybrid model, we use Umbrella to protect remote users from malicious websites and for web traffic control. Generally, Umbrella helps ...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

No data available
Anodot
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Information Not Available
Rubicon, Microsoft, Credit Karma, LivePerson, AOL, Vroom, Outfit7, Telit, NetSeer, Wix, Inneractive, EyeView, Etoro
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Nutanix, Apptio and others in Cloud Cost Management. Updated: April 2026.
894,738 professionals have used our research since 2012.