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Unicorne Stable vs Upbound Crossplane comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Unicorne Stable
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
486th
Average Rating
10.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Upbound Crossplane
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2913111 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a government with 10,001+ employees
Gaining resource-level cost visibility has improved our AWS spend control and ongoing optimizations
Our primary use case is monitoring and optimizing our AWS costs, with better visibility into spending at the resource level Stable has helped us better understand our AWS costs and identify optimization opportunities. We discovered several findings that we had not identified with other tools,…
Diego Paradeda - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Philips
Automated infrastructure deployment has reduced our backend release time from days to hours
I found an issue with features that was difficult for me when we needed to retrieve some tags or IDs of a resource that we deployed using Upbound Crossplane, for example, the RDS. We encountered a problem where we needed to use the ID of the RDS in another document that we have, making it difficult to return this information using Upbound Crossplane deployment. I believe Upbound Crossplane could be improved by possibly having a feature that can return tags, IDs, or resources that were deployed inside AWS, such as needing to return the ID of the VPC that we create when using Upbound Crossplane. I think the current state of Upbound Crossplane is already good enough.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The initial insights are spot-on, clear, and deliver immediate value right out of the box."
"The resource-level cost view is one of the most valuable features for us, providing clear visibility into where our costs are coming from and making it easier to investigate spending in detail."
"The time required to complete an environment setup was reduced from about one or two weeks to forty to fifty minutes."
"Upbound Crossplane impacts my organization positively because, from our perspective, we need to rely on fewer resources."
"Upbound Crossplane has positively impacted our organization by allowing us to reduce our deployment time from three days to three hours for the entire back-end and entire infrastructure."
"Upbound Crossplane has impacted our organization positively as it has been a transformative experience because the main thing about transformation is how we were able to make our lives easier as engineers."
"We went from having a 28-member troubleshooting team down to four to five members of the platform engineering team."
"The best features Upbound Crossplane offers are infrastructure as Kubernetes APIs and self-service infrastructure, where developers can provision resources without cloud credentials, and its strong multi-cloud support that makes it useful in managing AWS, Azure, and GCP from a single control plane with valuable GitOps integration."
"Before choosing Upbound Crossplane, I evaluated various options, but I only found Upbound Crossplane to be the best choice."
"When I provisioned PostgreSQL and S3 buckets through Crossplane, I noticed improvements in deployment speed, reliability, and team collaboration."
 

Cons

"There should be better ways to ignore recommendations or filter recommendations."
"However, one area of improvement is the learning curve, as Upbound Crossplane concepts such as providers, compositions, and claims can be difficult for beginners."
"Regarding Upbound Crossplane's capabilities, I feel the governance and security is something which is lacking."
"I found an issue with features that was difficult for me when we needed to retrieve some tags or IDs of a resource that we deployed using Upbound Crossplane, for example, the RDS."
"One area where Upbound Crossplane can be improved is with API rate limiting."
"Upbound Crossplane can be improved if they can add more AI agentic workflows."
"Regarding Upbound Crossplane, I see room for enhancement in synchronizing the state file of Crossplane with Terraform, as 90% of organizations have generally implemented Terraform and have their own specific, environment-specific Terraform state files."
"In terms of how Upbound Crossplane could improve, the generation of providers that are not already covered via Terraform is acceptable, but it could be more user-friendly for people who may not have knowledge of how those custom providers are structured."
"This was the only thing that we took as a disadvantage at the time of implementing, since we did not have any way to see what the Upbound Crossplane composition or what the Upbound Crossplane resource will do to the actual infrastructure."
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Top Industries

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Construction Company
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Comms Service Provider
12%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
 

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Unicorne Stable?
I would consider using Unicorn as your AWS reseller to get a better deal.
What needs improvement with Unicorne Stable?
There should be better ways to ignore recommendations or filter recommendations. Unicorn has added new features requested since we purchased, and they are taking into account our feedback in their ...
What is your primary use case for Unicorne Stable?
Our primary use case is monitoring and optimizing our AWS costs, with better visibility into spending at the resource level.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Upbound Crossplane?
I find the pricing, setup cost, and licensing of Upbound Crossplane very suitable for research and development.
What needs improvement with Upbound Crossplane?
One thing I have noticed about improving Upbound Crossplane is that, in Terraform, we can do a validation stage where people can say Terraform plan and see what changes it will do. It would be bett...
What is your primary use case for Upbound Crossplane?
Our main use case for Upbound Crossplane is that we are using Kubernetes as our main platform, and we have multiple clients who will be using this Kubernetes platform for deploying their container ...
 

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