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AWS Cost Management [EOL] vs VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Cost Management [EOL]
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (28th), Cloud Cost Management (10th)
 

Featured Reviews

RANJAN KUMAR - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at ZoomOps Technology
Helps to set cost thresholds and receive alerts if the actual cost exceeds them
We regularly check the status of services to identify any unnecessary or unexpected costs. We utilize the billing dashboard in AWS to monitor daily costs and assess any significant increases. For instance, if our daily AWS expenses usually amount to $1,000 for running a hundred instances, and suddenly it spikes to $1,500, we investigate the reasons behind the increase. We scrutinize detailed reports, identify the areas and services contributing to the rise, and inform our manager. The dashboard overview in AWS Cost Explorer provides a high-level summary of our expenses, covering databases. This includes total costs, daily costs, and a breakdown by services. AWS Cost Explorer offers visualization tools like line charts, bar charts, and pie charts. These visualizations assist us in quickly understanding expenditures, enabling us to pinpoint areas that might need attention. The tool allows the creation of custom reports by selecting and configuring filtering and grouping options. Custom reports include a data range selector, making it easy to analyze expenses for specific periods such as daily, monthly, or custom durations. The budget feature is client-dependent. Before creating any services, we engage with our client to understand their requirements, such as the number of instances, CPU, and memory needed. Subsequently, we create a budgeting tool in servers based on these specifications. Our team configures custom notifications to alert us when actual costs or usage exceed predefined thresholds. These alerts can be sent via email or integrated with Simple Notification Service. I rate the overall product a ten out of ten.
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Manager, Project Implementation at ibl-unisys
Virtualization has consolidated resources and provides secure, compliant cloud management
Customers do utilize a security and compliance framework with VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth because larger institutions won't move forward without it. They choose VMware to ensure a tested and foolproof secure environment. They comply with regulatory standards that go along with it, such as VMware Cloud Foundation, which is a significant product with trust policies and all, making it quite good. The CloudHealth Unified Dashboard helps streamline cloud management practices by allowing the IT team to manage the environment effectively. It shows if updates are done, whether there is downtime, or if there is a delay, indicating the reason for it. Dashboards are essential; without them, you are sitting in a mirage, not knowing what is happening. With the dashboard, you can quickly identify issues, such as red points and different types of curves indicating problems. This allows us to act on the problem at the very initial stage rather than waiting for the entire system to stop.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The stability and scalability are good."
"I like the recommendation we get from AWS Cost Management to use a particular image or VM type."
"The product provides the ability to set cost limits and budgets for a set of resources on the network."
"With the cost management tool, clients can optimize fine tuning their consumption, and optimize what they spend for these services."
"Technical support for AWS is perfect."
"The initial setup wasn't complex at all."
"I think everything about the solution is fine."
"The budgeting tool of AWS Cost Management is the most valuable feature."
"The pricing is rather competitive right now."
"It's one of our core tools within our Zones Cloud Platforms tool bag, when we're looking at how we help customers optimize their cloud spend across their Azure and AWS environments today."
"Compared to AWS, the historic data on CloudHealth is a lot more helpful."
"The product is easy to use in terms of monitoring all the environments. It works for multiple clouds."
"The solution is useful for cloud transparency and visibility in reports and dashboards that I have generated, especially the pre-populated dashboards."
"The solution is good for cloud cost management."
"Customers do utilize a security and compliance framework with VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth because larger institutions won't move forward without it, and they choose VMware to ensure a tested and foolproof secure environment that complies with regulatory standards such as VMware Cloud Foundation with its trust policies, making it quite good."
"Cloud Health has tremendous scope, and is on many clouds, including Google Cloud, Amazon, AWS, and Azure."
 

Cons

"However, we are currently searching for another solution because there are a lot of missing things that we need."
"Data transfer between S3 buckets within AWS incurs costs, especially when moving data from one bucket to another or downloading data."
"AWS Cost Management has fewer features compared to Azure Cost Management."
"We need finer-grained control over the roles and policies for users, specifying their permissions as to what they can look at."
"The solution needs to improve the communication mechanism available to the stakeholders."
"This program is not very scalable."
"There could be an option to build custom dashboards for the platform."
"I would like to see the forecasting models improved with AWS Cost Management."
"It would be helpful to have a mobile version or a tablet version, especially for people who are outside of the office."
"The solution doesn't offer the best functionality, unfortunately. Some features just simply aren't on offer. The solution needs to offer more product milestones."
"Some companies may not be capable of affording this product."
"I would like to see better integration from CloudHealth to create an easier setup and implementation."
"When you start to virtualize things it gets very expensive."
"If you are working with the OS you need help and other connectors to get more information."
"The weak points of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth are that while the product is quite capable, cost can be an issue at times."
"The Perspectives feature could be better."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have signed a long-term contract with AWS. There are different service levels that will determine the level of support you have."
"The tool's pricing depends on our services."
"The product is affordable."
"We get AWS Cost Management for free because we use AWS services."
"AWS Cost Management is free to use."
"I give the cost of the solution an eight out of ten."
"The pricing is competitive and while other products are good they are considerably more expensive."
"CloudHealth has a subscription-based model."
"There could be flexibility in pricing for the product."
"The licensing fees depend on how big the company is. If you are a larger company then you have a better contract with a better price. The price is different for a small company."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
11%
Construction Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

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Small Business
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Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
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Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise7
 

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What needs improvement with CloudHealth?
I do not see any flaws in VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth. Everything is fine for me. The performance is acceptable, and the layout is acceptable. It is very user-friendly, and there is nothing that needs...
What is your primary use case for CloudHealth?
This product was used for financial management in my company because I was working for a FinTech. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's use case is related to financial control and resource governance across ...
What advice do you have for others considering CloudHealth?
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's analytics in understanding cloud usage trends and expense forecasts is normally more for marketing staff and analyzing production servers in my case, so I am not very exp...
 

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