AWS Control Tower vs OpenNebula comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenNebula are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.5, while OpenNebula is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.3. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 1.8% mindshare in CM, compared to OpenNebula’s 7.9% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of OpenNebula users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

OpenNebula and AWS Control Tower both compete in the cloud management sector. AWS Control Tower seems to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive service offering and integration within the AWS ecosystem.

Features: OpenNebula offers open-source customization and management of private and hybrid clouds with a focus on simplicity. It provides flexible user management, supports various hypervisors, and has a strong community for support. AWS Control Tower is known for its automation in setting up AWS accounts, management guardrails, and comprehensive management of multi-account environments.

Room for Improvement: OpenNebula could enhance its technical documentation and expand its integrations. Its reliance on community support might not suit enterprises needing immediate assistance. AWS Control Tower could improve in simplifying its cost structure and enhancing integration with non-AWS services. Fine-tuning its configuration processes to be more user-intuitive would also be beneficial.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenNebula is easy to deploy and manage, suited for organizations seeking simplicity. Its community-based support might require more technical expertise. AWS Control Tower offers streamlined deployment with centralized management and comprehensive AWS customer support, making it suitable for enterprises requiring reliable service.

Pricing and ROI: OpenNebula presents an economical option with a potentially higher ROI for businesses minimizing upfront costs. AWS Control Tower involves higher initial investment due to its extensive features and enterprise support but provides strategic ROI through increased efficiency and reduced operational overhead for AWS-integrated users.

To learn more, read our detailed AWS Control Tower vs. OpenNebula Report (Updated: December 2024).

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IBM Turbonomic

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of IBM Turbonomic is 6.3%, down from 6.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of AWS Control Tower is 1.8%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenNebula is 7.9%, up from 5.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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SubashSubbiah

Assistant Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It can tell us where performance is lagging on the hardware layer, but the reporting on the application layer is lacking

The automation area could be improved, and the generic reports are poor. We want more details in the analysis report from the application layer. The reports from the infrastructure layer are satisfactory, but Turbonomic won't provide much information if we dig down further than the application layer. I would like them to add some apps for physical device load resourcing and physical-to-virtual calculation. It gives excellent recommendations for the virtual layer but doesn't have the capabilities for physical-to-virtual analysis. Automated deployment is something else they could add. Some built-in automation features are helpful, but we aren't effectively using a few. We want a few more automated features, like autoscaling and automatic performance optimization testing would be useful.

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AtemnkengNkeze

AWS Cloud Engineer/Cloud Architect at Landmark Technologies

A reliable option for setting up landing zones and single sign-on

You don't do anything when you set up these landing zones, such as the AWS Organization single sign-on. Everything is preconfigured, and you just have to do automation. Everything is established in the environment. If Control Tower could do this, it would be much better where all the security tools are already in it. I know AWS has its security tools, like Security Hub and Cloud Check, with minimal configuration. It would be much better if you set up the landing zone, which is the master account in the foundation of the environment, and all these tools are included. You should just get to go in and go, "Okay, I need this at this particular time." You should get to go in and do it. There should be more automation security tools in the Control Tower.

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FOURES Jean-Philippe

Products Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Reliable, simple to manage, and offers great technical support

The support of VXLAN fits with our network management. Thanks to this we can propose mixed solutions using virtual resources on OpenNebula and bare metal servers hosted in our facilities linked to each other on the sale network. This use case is very useful when some applications need bare metal power (Kubernetes workers, huge databases, AI models computations, et cetera). The cluster management is very useful for splitting our different clusters (mutual vs dedicated). We can manage deployments and capacity planning without pain. The API is also really simple and it helped us to develop the Terraform provider to manage OpenNebula like any other cloud infrastructure.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The system automatically sizes and moves resources based on the needs of the applications."

"We like that Turbonomic shows application metrics and estimates the impact of taking a suggested action. It provides us a map of resource utilization as part of its recommendation. We evaluate and compare that to what we think would be appropriate from a human perspective to that what Turbonomic is doing, then take the best action going forward."

"Before implementing Turbonomic, we had difficulty reaching a consensus about VM placement and sizing. Everybody's opinion was wrong, including mine. The application developers, implementers, and infrastructure team could never decide the appropriate size of a virtual machine. I always made the machines small, and they always made them too big. We were both probably wrong."

"With Turbonomic, we were able to reduce our ESX cluster size and save money on our maintenance and license renewals. It saved us around $75,000 per year but it's a one-time reduction in VMware licensing. We don't renew the support. The ongoing savings is probably $50,000 to $75,000 a year, but there was a one-time of $200,000 plus."

"The solution has a good optimization feature."

"It became obvious to us that there was a lot more being offered in the product that we could leverage to ensure our VMware environment was running efficiently."

"We have a system where our developers automate machine builds, and that is constantly running out of resources. Turbonomic helps us with that, so I don't have to keep buying hardware. The developers always say, "They don't have enough. They don't have enough. They don't have enough," when they just configured it improperly. Therefore, Turbonomic helps us identify configuration issues on their side so it doesn't cost me money on the other end to buy resources that I don't really need."

"Rightsizing is valuable. Its recommendations are pretty good."

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"There are two features in Control Tower which are the most valuable. One is the guardrails because it has preventive and detective guardrails."

"AWS Control Tower helps companies save costs."

"It provides centralized solutions for all AWS accounts in one place, customized to meet the organization's specific needs."

"AWS Control Tower helps to save a lot of work and manage multiple accounts."

"It provides a central point for account management, access control, and compliance monitoring."

"Security is the most valuable feature of Control Tower."

"It aligns well with the customer's needs and it ultimately fosters a strong customer-company relationship."

"It is incredibly user-friendly and functions seamlessly."

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"OpenNebula has very good integration with SAP Storage."

"It's easy to integrate OpenNebula with our IT systems."

"OpenNebula is easy to deploy and manage compared to other solutions like OpenStack."

"With a single click, we could set things up and initiate them."

"For the entire data center, as a private cloud, I believe that user management, expert management, and the virtual data center is completely magic for the users."

"What's best about OpenNebula that people like is that it's easy to deploy. It's also easy to manage. It's interesting because people choose OpenNebula over other solutions because of the ease of management."

"The service feature appeals most to us, thus it is the most valuable."

"The ability to use it almost like a public cloud for an organization is a big asset, as it will create a value proposition and can control costs in a great way."

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Cons

"If they would educate their customers to understand the latest updates, that would help customers... Also, there are a lot of features that are not available in Turbonomic. For example, PaaS component optimization and automation are still in the development phase."

"After running this solution in production for a year, we may want a more granular approach to how we utilize the product because we are planning to use some of its metrics to feed into our financial system."

"The implementation could be enhanced."

"They could add a few more reports. They could also be a bit more granular. While they have reports, sometimes it is hard to figure out what you are looking for just by looking at the date."

"It would be nice for them to have a way to do something with physical machines, but I know that is not their strength Thankfully, the majority of our environment is virtual, but it would be nice to see this type of technology across some other platforms. It would be nice to have capacity planning across physical machines."

"I like the detail I get in the old user interface and will miss some of that in the new interface when we perform our planned upgrade soon."

"I would love to see Turbonomic analyze backup data. We have had people in the past put servers into daily full backups with seven-year retention and where the disk size is two terabytes. So, every single day, there is a two terabyte snapshot put into a Blob somewhere. I would love to see Turbonomic say, "Here are all your backups along with the age of them," to help us manage the savings by not having us spend so much on the storage in Azure. That would be huge."

"The planning and costing areas could be a little bit more detailed. When you have more than 2,000 machines, the reports don't work properly. They need to fix it so that the reports work when you use that many virtual machines."

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"While using the solution recently, it broke a certain activity. So, AWS Control Tower needs to consider making the solution better."

"The product's affordability depends on the value it brings to specific organizations."

"By making APIs and organizational units more centralized, it would be simpler to pinpoint the source of issues in case of a breach and would ultimately benefit everyone involved."

"AWS should provide more resources, examples, and tutorials."

"It could be improved by having a more intuitive graphical interface. It could also include other coding languages like PowerShell and Python, as it would be beneficial for DevOps recommendations."

"The process of closing an AWS account using Control Tower needs improvements to simplify it, especially when managing multiple accounts."

"The initial setup is complex."

"The solution's stability could be improved."

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"The storage feature that they have is a bit confusing."

"Most of the competitors are offering some sort of billing software to transform their installation to work as a small-sized public cloud, but those offerings from OpenNebula are still missing."

"The protocol for clusterization is rough and doesn't work well."

"Hosting platforms are limited so the deployment process needs improvement."

"The front-facing API can be improved to support lots of requests when the platform is huge with lots of virtual resources."

"The UI, monitoring, and alerting could benefit from further improvements."

"Backup features are only available in the enterprise edition. The community version lacks a good solution for making backups."

"There are no payment gateways in OpenNebula."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We felt the pricing was very fair for the product. It is in no way prohibitive for larger deployments, unlike other similar product on the market."

"We see ROI in extended support agreements (ESA) for old software. Migration activities seem to be where Turbonomic has really benefited us the most. It's one click and done. We have new machines ready to go with Turbonomic, which are properly sized instead of somebody sitting there with a spreadsheet and guessing. So, my return on investment would certainly be on currency, from a software and hardware perspective."

"Licensing is per socket, so load up on the cores rather than a lot of lower core CPUs."

"It's worth the time and money investment if you can afford it."

"Contact the Turbonomic sales team, explain your needs and what you're looking to monitor. They will get a pre-sales SE on the phone and together work up a very accurate quote."

"Price is a big one. VMTurbo was very competitively priced."

"I consider the pricing to be high."

"When we have expanded our licensing, it has always been easy to make an ROI-based decision. So, it's reasonably priced. We would like to have it cheaper, but we get more benefit from it than we pay for it. At the end of the day, that's all you can hope for."

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"It is cost-effective and the associated cost is quite minimal."

"The pay-as-you-go model ensures you're only charged for what you use, which offers great flexibility for different types of companies."

"The solution is free."

"It operates on a pay-as-you-go model, meaning we are charged only for the services we actively use within it."

"It is expensive but it is an investment in my opinion."

"AWS Control Tower is not really that expensive."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing an eight."

"The product's affordability depends on the value it brings to specific organizations."

More AWS Control Tower pricing and cost advice

"The licensing for OpenNebula used to be free, but now it's no longer free. A customer contacted me asking to move to another provider because of the changes in the licensing terms for OpenNebula. I have no information on how much the OpenNebula license is because the customer pays for it, and I only do the integration."

"We use the Community Edition, rather than the Enterprise Edition."

"The solution is open source so is free."

"OpenNebuoa has recently come up with a new subscription model that is economical and a lot of new customers are choosing this as it is an easy subscription model."

"VRA is very expensive but OpenNebula is free."

"OpenNebula gives good value for money."

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Turbonomic?

It offers different scenarios. It provides more capabilities than many other tools available. Typically, its price is...

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What needs improvement with Turbonomic?

The implementation could be enhanced.

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What is your primary use case for Turbonomic?

We use IBM Turbonomic to automate our cloud operations, including monitoring, consolidating dashboards, and reporting...

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What do you like most about AWS Control Tower?

The most intriguing feature is the automatic generation of user accounts. Leveraging Active Directory and global comp...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Control Tower?

The product is very affordable. I rate the product’s pricing as two out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expens...

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What needs improvement with AWS Control Tower?

AWS should provide more resources, examples, and tutorials. Mastering the technology will be more wonderful, but it t...

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What do you like most about OpenNebula?

The live migration feature has been great and is something we use very often.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for OpenNebula?

OpenNebula gives good value for money.

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What needs improvement with OpenNebula?

The web interface could be better. It's not very difficult to use, but there's room for enhancement. Another area for...

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Overview

IBM Turbonomic is a performance and cost optimization platform for public, private, and hybrid clouds used by companies to assure application performance while eliminating inefficiencies by dynamically resourcing applications through automated actions.

IBM Turbonomic leverages AI to continuously analyze application resource consumption, deliver insights and dashboards, and make real-time adjustments. Common use cases include cloud cost optimization, cloud migration planning, data center modernization, FinOps acceleration, Kubernetes optimization, sustainable IT, and application resource management. By integrating with various cloud platforms, on-premise infrastructures, and containers, IBM Turbonomic provides a holistic view of the environment, ensuring that resources are allocated efficiently.

The solution is designed to support complex IT environments, offering actionable insights and automated actions that help IT teams proactively manage application performance and infrastructure resources. Turbonomic customers report an average 33% reduction in cloud and infrastructure waste without impacting application performance, and return-on-investment of 471% over three years.

IBM Turbonomic manages resources across hybrid and on-premises data centers to ensure efficiency and financial impact awareness. It automates resource allocation, balances memory dynamically, and provides robust performance metrics. Users benefit from its ability to prevent resource starvation and offer cost-saving recommendations through continuous management. Executive Dashboards provide insights for cost justification and resource management, making IT operations simpler with AI-driven automation and actionable recommendations.

What are the most important features of IBM Turbonomic?

Automated Resource Allocation: Dynamically allocates resources for optimal performance.
Dynamic Memory Balancing: Adjusts memory allocation to prevent resource shortages.
Right-Sizing: Sizes VMs accurately for Azure and on-prem environments.
Single Platform Management: Manages resources across hybrid and on-premises data centers.
Proactive Performance Optimization: Continuously optimizes performance to prevent issues.
Kubernetes Support: Enhances container management with robust support.
Cost-Saving Recommendations: Provides actionable tips for reducing expenses.

What benefits should users look for in IBM Turbonomic reviews?

Cost Reduction: Helps minimize expenses through efficient resource management.
Performance Improvement: Enhances application performance by preventing resource starvation.
Detailed Insights: Offers comprehensive analytics to justify costs and resource utilization.
Simplified IT Processes: Uses AI automation to streamline operations.

IBM Turbonomic is implemented across multiple industries, including finance for optimizing peak payroll processing, IT for enhanced virtual server management, and healthcare for reliable performance monitoring. Organizations benefit from its robust automation, ensuring maximum efficiency and cost savings.

AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a new, secure, multi-account AWS environment. It establishes a landing zone that is based on best-practices blueprints, and enables governance using guardrails you can choose from a pre-packaged list.

OpenNebula provides the most simple but feature-rich and flexible solution for the comprehensive management of virtualized data centers to enable private, public and hybrid IaaS clouds. OpenNebula interoperability makes cloud an evolution by leveraging existing IT assets, protecting your investments, and avoiding vendor lock-in.

OpenNebula is a turnkey enterprise-ready solution that includes all the features needed to provide an on-premises (private) cloud offering, and to offer public cloud services.

Sample Customers

IBM, J.B. Hunt, BBC, The Capita Group, SulAmérica, Rabobank, PROS, ThinkON, O.C. Tanner Co.

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers

Akamai, BBC, Fermilab, Terradue, Surf Sara, Produban, Netways, ESA, China Mobile, BlackBerry, Deloitte, Fuze, Telefonica, Trivago

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