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Cloudability pros and cons

Vendor: Apptio
3.7 out of 5

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PROS

Cloudability provides critical visibility and information that aids leadership in decision-making.
The rightsizing recommendations and dashboards are crucial for reducing cloud costs and managing reserved instance spending.
Cloudability's scalability and stability offer robust support for managing multiple clouds efficiently.
Cloudability seamlessly integrates by pulling data for valuable insights and analysis into cost management.
Customizable alerts and tagging features enhance budget management by providing insightful recommendations and alerts.

CONS

Technical support response time and effectiveness need improvement as they seem stretched across multiple customers.
The API lacks comprehensive documentation, making it difficult to use and integrate for automation purposes.
Cloudability could improve linear regression features for predictive budgeting and allocation to anticipate future workloads better.
Limitations exist in Cloudability's dashboard regarding data representation and per-team spending visualization.
Enhancements in Cloudability's data collection from cloud sources are necessary, along with broader cloud provider support.
 

Cloudability Pros review quotes

HS
Jan 22, 2021
The pricing isn't too expensive.
TS
Aug 29, 2024
All the tagging and mapping, which helps to create some virtual tags are useful features.
Vijay More - PeerSpot reviewer
May 22, 2024
Cloudability takes care of identifying and managing the cloud.
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NM
Dec 11, 2018
It provides us visibility, then we can turn around and can give the leadership team more information, which we could not previously give them.
Solution49de - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 11, 2018
Each user can have their own dashboard that they want to consume. Instead of having to share one dashboard for multiple users, you can create individual views for each user to view, and that view will contain only their own accounts, which allows for separation of data.
Sherri Wooldridge - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 27, 2024
The most crucial feature in reducing my cloud costs has been the rightsizing recommendations, along with the dashboards that track reserved instance spending coverage and utilization. As for Cloudability's integration with our existing cloud infrastructure, it's not integrated directly into our AWS infrastructure but rather reads and pulls data from it, providing valuable insights and analysis for cost management.
reviewer2310048 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 15, 2023
The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to create reports and dashboards.
DC
Dec 11, 2018
The sizing recommendation will look, and say, "You are only using this at 80%," then recommend a better fit for you.
CloudArc65b9 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 11, 2018
It has already given us insight into how to optimize. So, we are now ramping up steadily its usage.
AK
Nov 3, 2023
One of the standout features of the solution is its groups and views functionality. The solution is highly-stable. The solution is highly-scalable. The customer support is good. They can be easily contacted. The initial setup is straightforward. It's an excellent tool, especially when dealing with multiple clouds. It streamlines the process, eliminating the need to check each cloud individually.
 

Cloudability Cons review quotes

HS
Jan 22, 2021
Right now, what we're doing is we are manually putting the data in it, which is something which we don't like about Cloudability.
TS
Aug 29, 2024
I would improve the integration, or the preparation of the integration, for a complex environment.
Vijay More - PeerSpot reviewer
May 22, 2024
There are also some limitations with the dashboards and data representation in Cloudability.
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NM
Dec 11, 2018
We have dealt with a few technical support people where we ask for one thing and they might not deliver straightaway. It seems like they are a stretched across multiple customers.
Solution49de - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 11, 2018
The API is not well-documented. It is not straightforward and difficult to use. This needs to be improved, as it is very difficult for our developers to develop automation around it.
Sherri Wooldridge - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 27, 2024
I wish there was a feature to temporarily remove certain recommendations from the list for teams that couldn't implement them immediately. I believe Cloudability could improve its automation functionality and enhance cost allocation modeling.
reviewer2310048 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 15, 2023
In general, I feel Cloudability wasn't able to support many resources.
DC
Dec 11, 2018
We would like them to have a linear regression, so we can be predictive for budgets, allocations, and the year's follow ups. We also want to have a longer window of analytics with better certainty that our workload will fit the model, not just in a two week window.
CloudArc65b9 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 11, 2018
There is always room for improvement in education and training. We are not that mature in terms of our automation. It could help us identify where we could optimize in terms of build.
AK
Nov 3, 2023
I would like the API functionality to improve. The update time after uploading data could also be improved.