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Amazon AWS vs VMware Cloud Foundation comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 16, 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
7.9
Amazon AWS is praised for cost-efficiency, scalability, quick deployment, and positive ROI, especially during critical periods like COVID-19.
Sentiment score
5.7
VMware Cloud Foundation offers cost savings and stability, though full ROI may take time, enhancing infrastructure efficiency and services.
VMware Cloud Foundation allows cost and time savings by quickly deploying infrastructure requests and integrating automatic ticketing and backup services.
In terms of ROI, although VMware Cloud Foundation is expensive, it saves time in most cases, which indirectly saves costs for users.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.8
Amazon AWS provides reliable customer service with skilled support staff, enhancing user satisfaction through responsive and knowledgeable assistance.
Sentiment score
6.8
Customers find VMware Cloud Foundation support satisfactory, with efficient service, but suggest faster responses and more qualified engineers.
Amazon AWS has good technical engineers available, making their customer service reliable.
There are times when support is unclear, and even VMware support personnel may lack familiarity with certain parts, causing difficulties.
Our technical support team is capable of providing support on the operating system side.
Support was reliable and responsive before the acquisition by Broadcom.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Amazon AWS is highly valued for its scalability and flexibility, effectively supporting diverse user needs and business applications.
Sentiment score
7.7
VMware Cloud Foundation is praised for scalability, especially for large enterprises, despite potential hardware and licensing limitations.
Amazon AWS provides strong scalability features, but the scaling process could be made more straightforward.
When more hosts are added, performance goes slow.
VMware Cloud Foundation supports scalability and company growth.
VMware Cloud Foundation is quite scalable, receiving a rating of eight and a half to nine out of ten.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
Amazon AWS is highly reliable and stable, with minimal downtime, though architecture design impacts performance, making it a preferred choice.
Sentiment score
7.9
VMware Cloud Foundation is stable and reliable, though migration challenges arise; requires skilled teams for optimal performance and updates frequently.
If one component fails to operate in a timely manner, the entire infrastructure can go down because everything is interconnected.
The stability of VMware Cloud Foundation is very high.
 

Room For Improvement

Amazon AWS needs better cost transparency, user interface, integration, documentation, security, support, and training to enhance user experience.
VMware Cloud Foundation needs improved integration, pricing, and management, while addressing customization, migration, and advanced multi-site challenges.
Amazon AWS could improve its user interface to make it more user-friendly, especially for people who are not highly technical.
VMware Broadcom needs to include auto resource allocation at the VM levels.
Each user needs deep knowledge of every aspect of virtualization.
The maintenance cost has increased significantly, especially after Broadcom acquired VMware, with a shift from socket-based licensing to core-based licensing.
 

Setup Cost

AWS pricing is scalable and competitive but complex, with tools available to manage potential unexpected costs for enterprises.
VMware Cloud Foundation is costly compared to competitors but offers valuable features that may justify its expense for enterprises.
Currently, Amazon AWS is known to be on the higher price range because popular and in-demand services often come at a premium.
The cost has become very high, especially after Broadcom's acquisition, altering the licensing model to a more expensive core-based system.
The price is quite higher than some other vendors.
VMware Cloud Foundation is quite expensive when compared to its competitors, but it does save time, which in turn saves money.
 

Valuable Features

Amazon AWS leads in cloud hosting with scalable services, pay-as-you-go model, robust infrastructure, and global reach.
VMware Cloud Foundation simplifies automation, management, and customization, enhancing deployment efficiency and flexibility for comprehensive cloud solutions.
Their infrastructure is robust, allowing for increased capacity as user volume grows.
VMware Cloud Foundation allows for extensive customization, aligning with our customer requirements.
VMware Cloud Foundation is its ability to manage everything from a single console, including network, virtualization, and storage management.
All features of VMware Cloud Foundation are valuable to us, as it covers every industry standard protocol and requirement protocol.
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon AWS
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
255
Ranking in other categories
PaaS Clouds (2nd)
VMware Cloud Foundation
Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
11th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
30
Ranking in other categories
Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category, the mindshare of Amazon AWS is 13.6%, down from 22.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Cloud Foundation is 1.0%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

Arun Srivastav - PeerSpot reviewer
Allows for automatic scaling of resources and provides built-in firewalls and security features, eliminating the need for external security solutions
One thing that's a bit different is that we're still accustomed to speaking to someone directly. AWS doesn't offer that kind of support. It's only through bots. You're speaking to chatbots, and that can sometimes be frustrating because there's no person on the other side. AI is not a substitute for a person. AWS marketplace is very strong, but somehow AWS doesn't promote it much. They have a huge customer base across the globe, and if products were launched in their marketplace, they could sell like hotcakes. They should improve their marketplace and promote the same product across the globe. They can take a cut, but they should promote it. That's something they don't do very much. So, AWS should promote its marketplace software. The company should promote it aggressively. Currently, they keep it very subtle. If you ask for it, they'll help you out. But they don't seem to advertise, "You're building a product on our platform? Why don't you sell it in our marketplace?" Improvement in AI: AWS is a little behind Microsoft Azure in terms of AI. AWS is still getting there, but the kind of examples and help files available in Azure for AI are much better. So AWS still needs to work on its AI functionality.
Mangesh  Parjane - PeerSpot reviewer
Experience has improved centralized management through single console operations
There is room for improvement in how section updates are handled. The challenge lies in the difficulty of pinpointing issues when something goes wrong at a single stage. Also, each user needs deep knowledge of every aspect of virtualization, and the VMware personnel might not fully grasp aspects outside their expertise, requiring the involvement of other professionals.
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Comparison Review

it_user8586 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 14, 2013
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
22%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about VMware Cloud Foundation?
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware Cloud Foundation?
The price is quite higher than some other vendors, however, it is a reliable solution. VMware is a pioneer in the virtualization field, and that is why we rely on VMware.
What needs improvement with VMware Cloud Foundation?
There may be room for improvement in the resource allocation feature. VMware Broadcom needs to include auto resource allocation at the VM levels.
 

Also Known As

Amazon Web Services, AWS
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Sample Customers

Pinterest, General Electric, Pfizer, Netflix, and Nasdaq.
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