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Spacelift vs VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
5.6
Spacelift drastically cuts costs and boosts efficiency in infrastructure deployment, offering significant value, particularly for larger organizations.
Sentiment score
6.4
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth optimizes cloud costs by 20-30% through resource management, improving financial planning and operational efficiency.
We are just pushing code from Git to GitHub, which then sends it to Spacelift, checking for drifts and starting continuous deployment.
Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The metrics show that fewer employees are needed, money is saved based on past experiences with different cloud management or Infrastructure as Code management tools, and efficiency has improved significantly in terms of Infrastructure as Code deployment.
cloud engineer at softwareone
Anything that reduces the amount of work needed to do repetitive tasks is a bonus.
Senior Devops Engineer at SAM Seamless
CloudHealth consistently identifies optimization opportunities, resulting in an estimated twenty to thirty percent reduction in cloud infrastructure costs.
V Mware And Vector Administration at Tech Mahindra Limited
I have seen a return on investment with VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth. My company was very happy using this, and they did not buy another solution, so I believe they have seen benefits using this VMWare solution.
AI Software Developer Engineer at IBM
I can say that in my experience, we saved money on using VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth, money that would have been spent in the cloud and now we reduce the load and the cost of the clouds.
Lead Technical Recovery Management at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.1
Spacelift's customer service receives mixed feedback, praised for responsiveness but compared unfavorably to major services like AWS.
Sentiment score
7.1
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's support is praised for reliability and knowledge but needs faster responses and improved personnel qualifications.
I have asked them various queries, and they provided perfect solutions along with good detailed documentation.
Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The customer support is fantastic as they reply over Slack immediately and get to work on a solution whenever I need them.
Senior Manager - Platform Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The SLO and SLA being really fast to answer.
Dev Ops Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
They provide 24/7 support based on the SLA with the client, ensuring the response times are matched accordingly.
Manager, Project Implementation at ibl-unisys
The engineers are knowledgeable and provide practical guidance for resolving cloud management and governance-related problems.
V Mware And Vector Administration at Tech Mahindra Limited
It is very interactive, with examples on how you can do this or that, and there are the do's and the don'ts.
AI Software Developer Engineer at IBM
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
5.5
Spacelift efficiently scales to manage large workloads and multiple Terraform projects, ensuring stability and functionality across deployments.
Sentiment score
7.0
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is praised for scalability, user-friendly management, and efficient cloud handling in medium to large environments.
Spacelift's scalability is very good as it scales very well with the environment because I can add agents to it with more workload, so it's quite excellent.
Senior Manager - Platform Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Spacelift can handle increased workloads well, managing more servers as our organization grows, and it is indeed scalable.
Lead Devops Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Based on the requests and the Linux Docker machines I provision, it becomes more stable, and the runs happen very quickly.
cloud engineer at softwareone
The backbone of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is scalability; it is very easy to scale.
AI Software Developer Engineer at IBM
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is well-suited for medium to large-scale enterprise environments, capable of managing multiple AWS accounts and thousands of cloud resources and workloads across different regions from a single dashboard.
V Mware And Vector Administration at Tech Mahindra Limited
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.5
Spacelift is highly stable and reliable, with a 99% success rate and no significant stability issues reported by users.
Sentiment score
7.8
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is stable and reliable, with effective cost management, reliable AWS data sync, and regular updates.
With VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth, I can help optimize services and identify the pain points where cost reduction is necessary.
AI Software Developer Engineer at IBM
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is stable and reliable in my experience.
V Mware And Vector Administration at Tech Mahindra Limited
 

Room For Improvement

Spacelift needs to enhance user onboarding, error clarity, pricing transparency, UI design, integrations, and documentation for improved user experience.
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth needs GCP integration, AI insights, improved access, real-time updates, enhanced reporting, and customizable dashboards.
It can improve areas in scalability and integrate some open-source tools.
Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The engineering team behind Spacelift is very responsive whenever I submit a feature request, and there's a very good chance I would see it within the next year.
Senior Manager - Platform Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The OPA policy writing is not very beginner-friendly either, and the error messages when a policy fails are not always clear.
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
The learning curve is steep because people like to take their own time to understand and roll out things, which creates an overhead in getting people to understand the system.
Manager, Project Implementation at ibl-unisys
I would prefer to see more AI-driven insights that not only recommend optimization but also suggest automated remediation actions.
V Mware And Vector Administration at Tech Mahindra Limited
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth can improve by introducing real-time cost visibility and alerting.
Cloud Engineer at Rishabh Software
 

Setup Cost

Spacelift offers competitive pricing, with substantial savings over alternatives, despite occasional clarity issues in licensing and perceived costs.
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth offers cost-effective cloud management for larger enterprises with features like cost optimization and minimal setup.
The next standard plan costs three hundred ninety-nine dollars per month for ten concurrent users.
Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The spaces have been a major aspect of managing things, and the contacts for the resources I provide internally in Spacelift are quite affordable, effective, and useful.
cloud engineer at softwareone
My experience with pricing shows that the setup cost is reasonable, and the licensing also seems reasonable.
Lead Devops Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
The pricing is suitable for medium and large enterprises operating in multi-cloud environments that require advanced financial operations and governance capabilities.
V Mware And Vector Administration at Tech Mahindra Limited
Pricing setup is the process of configuring how the cloud costs are calculated and allocated, which includes connecting cloud billing data, defining business groups, mapping resource tags, and setting custom rates if required.
Dev Ops Professional at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Valuable Features

Spacelift enhances team efficiency, collaboration, and infrastructure management with automation, integrations, and Terraform support for improved deployment speed.
VMware Tanzu CloudHealth simplifies multi-cloud management with cost-saving insights, enhanced transparency, and effective compliance across major cloud services.
We can apply those policies in Spacelift, and the RBAC and access policies features are really excellent in Spacelift, which we do not find in any of the other competitor tools.
Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Spacelift has positively impacted my organization by reducing manpower, as it reduced the efforts of resources in the team, where previously a job done by two or three engineers can now be easily managed by one engineer using Spacelift.
Technical Lead at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
You create so many different modules and so many different versions. Having a very easy way to navigate and search through them all, and the fact that you can actually see the commit ID and description really helps in discovering what was actually in that version of the module.
Senior Devops Engineer at SAM Seamless
Governance and policy management help enforce governance policies by identifying missing tags, non-compliant resources, public storage, and other configuration issues, ensuring organizations maintain security and operational standards across different cloud environments like GCP, AWS, and Azure.
V Mware And Vector Administration at Tech Mahindra Limited
With this, we have right-sized many instances, removed many unused EBS volumes, and unused Elastic IPs. In that way, we have cut around 20% of cost.
Cloud Engineer at Rishabh Software
CloudHealth identifies underutilized or idle resources and provides right-sizing recommendations, helping organizations reduce unnecessary cloud spending while maintaining application performance.
Dev Ops Professional at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Spacelift
Ranking in Cloud Management
6th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
AI Software Development (13th)
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth
Ranking in Cloud Management
19th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Cost Management (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Spacelift is 1.2%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is 2.0%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Spacelift1.2%
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth2.0%
Other96.8%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

G Srivastava - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Automation of cloud infrastructure has transformed how our team manages Terraform workflows
Spacelift has other features beyond Terraform, including Ansible, Pulumi, Terragrunt, and it also helps with Kubernetes, although we haven't used it for the other tools. We have only used it for Terraform Infrastructure as Code, and it has helped us significantly. One standout feature compared to Terraform Cloud is the ability to apply policies. For example, we want to restrict engineers in our team from building servers with a particular SKU, such as in Azure, where we do not want to run servers with a SKU higher than the standard D4sv5. We can apply those policies in Spacelift, and the RBAC and access policies features are really excellent in Spacelift, which we do not find in any of the other competitor tools. The pricing is also competitive compared to Terraform Cloud. The access policy features allow us to assign specific policies since we have three environments in our company: Dev, QA, and Prod. We assign policies so that anyone can run code from Dev and QA servers, but we assign a policy for specific people, such as managers, to run code in Prod. This is a very good feature from Spacelift that we have implemented for the access policy. Spacelift has positively impacted our organization as a CI/CD tool for application deployment and development. Although we use other CI/CD tools like Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, there wasn't a specific tool for Terraform Infrastructure as Code until Spacelift came along. It allows us to easily configure our servers and build a number of them on our cloud. While other CI/CD tools have started to include configuration features, Spacelift offers many other benefits that make it an excellent tool to use.
Sasikiran Sakalabattina - PeerSpot reviewer
V Mware And Vector Administration at Tech Mahindra Limited
Centralized dashboards have optimized multi-cloud costs and improved financial governance
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is a powerful cloud management platform, but there are areas for improvement. I would prefer to see more AI-driven insights that not only recommend optimization but also suggest automated remediation actions. Real-time cost synchronization could be faster, as billing data sometimes has delays. More customized dashboards and report templates would help teams tailor their needs better. Kubernetes cost visibility could be more granular for centralized workloads. Integration with ITSM and automation tools such as ServiceNow and Ansible could be enhanced. Simplifying initial onboarding and policy configuration would also improve the experience for new users. These enhancements would make the platform even more efficient for enterprise cloud operations. This tool is a mature and relevant cloud management platform with several areas that could be enhanced. I would prefer to see more advanced AI capabilities providing predictive insights and automated remediation for common optimization tasks. Better, faster synchronization of cloud billing and utilization data would enable near real-time cost monitoring. I want more customizable dashboards and executive reports tailored for different stakeholders such as FinOps, infrastructure, and management teams. Improving Kubernetes container cost visibility at the pod level is also necessary. I would prefer to see stronger AI-driven automation, faster real-time cost updates, more customizable dashboards, deeper Kubernetes cost visibility, enhanced DevOps integrations, and a simpler onboarding process as areas needing improvement. These enhancements would further increase operational efficiency and make the platform more valuable for enterprise cloud management.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Educational Organization
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
11%
Construction Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise8
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise10
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Spacelift?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was that licensing was somewhat unclear when HashiCorp changed their own licensing.
What needs improvement with Spacelift?
It would be nice to have out-of-the-box A/B testing with Spacelift because we still use some custom features for that. Out-of-the-box A/B testing is the main thing I would like to add about the nee...
What is your primary use case for Spacelift?
We manage a lot of AWS deployments with Spacelift configs, so we have a main use case for it. We also use it for versioning and spinning up new environments. Recently we used Spacelift for deployin...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudHealth?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is that the setup is minimal and simple. I have not been directly responsible for pricing setup in CloudHealth, bu...
What needs improvement with CloudHealth?
The weak points of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth are that while the product is quite capable, cost can be an issue at times. The learning curve is steep because people like to take their own time to und...
What is your primary use case for CloudHealth?
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is used primarily to provide users with a seamless working environment without losing connectivity by offering a solution that virtualizes their computing environment. It i...
 

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