AWS Trusted Advisor vs CloudCheckr comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Spot - A Flexera company are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #16 with an average rating of 8.6, while Spot - A Flexera company is ranked #24 with an average rating of 8.0. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 1.2% mindshare in CM, compared to Spot - A Flexera company’s 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 77% of Spot - A Flexera company users who would recommend it.

AWS Trusted Advisor

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

CloudCheckr and AWS Trusted Advisor are products in the cloud management and optimization category. While AWS Trusted Advisor has a robust feature set, CloudCheckr offers better pricing and support, suggesting it may be more cost-effective.

Features: CloudCheckr provides comprehensive reporting, cost management, and granular analytics. It also includes robust compliance checks. AWS Trusted Advisor offers a pre-integrated suite of AWS tools, real-time recommendations, and automatic best practice checks. Its deeper integration with the AWS ecosystem benefits existing AWS users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: AWS Trusted Advisor ensures seamless integration and straightforward deployment within the AWS ecosystem, receiving direct support from AWS. CloudCheckr requires third-party integration but delivers exceptional customer service and onboarding support. It is more approachable for non-AWS-exclusive environments.

Pricing and ROI: CloudCheckr has a competitive pricing structure with a reasonable setup cost, enabling better ROI for multi-cloud environments. AWS Trusted Advisor, included with AWS support plans, might lead to higher long-term costs for full access. While it provides value for AWS-exclusive users, CloudCheckr is more financially accessible for cross-platform cloud management.

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Trusted Advisor

Ranking in Cloud Management

16th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

CloudCheckr

Ranking in Cloud Management

24th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Cost Management (11th), Managed Cloud Services (5th), AI Observability (76th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of AWS Trusted Advisor is 1.2%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CloudCheckr is 1.6%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
AWS Trusted Advisor	1.2%
CloudCheckr	1.6%
Other	97.2%

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MuhammadAzhar Khan

Senior DevOps Engineer at Alibaba Group

Optimizes cloud strategies with security and cost insights

Trusted Advisor offers features that provide inside information for the entire account, including identifying security gaps and offering cost optimization insights. The key features include security recommendations, cost optimization, and various packages to choose from, depending on the size of the company. It is especially beneficial for larger companies, as the tool provides a comprehensive view of account security, open ports, buckets, and offers recommendations for protection.

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Karan Saini

Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees

Cost governance has improved and cost visibility now drives daily compliant optimization

CloudCheckr is an excellent tool overall. The feature that stands out is how it enables cost savings and efficiency. The cost visibility and reporting are really valuable, and the dashboard is informative and enables good decision-making. The actionable recommendations are beneficial, such as the auto-generated suggestions for optimization. The built-in security and compliance checks, along with scheduled reports, save a lot of manual effort and keep both engineering and finance teams aligned. CloudCheckr has been great and has helped solve problems by ensuring proper compliance. It does not just show data; it highlights actionable items for cost savings, security improvements, and compliance gaps. Scheduled reports are received on a regular basis according to defined schedules, providing more insights that can be shared with leadership and finance teams to ensure alignment. This results in a better picture where everyone is aligned and focused on growth while effectively and efficiently using financial resources. CloudCheckr has enabled an average cost saving of approximately 25% from the last year, and this occurred while also increasing the scale of production. It has significantly reduced manual efforts that would otherwise be spent manually checking costs, tracking where spending is occurring, and verifying whether everything is properly optimized.

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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 Security Advisor is the most valuable feature. It instantly informs you about any system misconfigurations, and the best part is, it's completely free."

"The cost optimization features are valuable."

"I would give it a ten out of ten."

"The key features include security recommendations, cost optimization, and various packages to choose from, depending on the size of the company."

"Trusted Advisor scans the complete infrastructure within the account, providing a consolidated view of all services in use."

"I strongly recommend using Trusted Advisor due to its role in cybersecurity, providing cost-effective solutions compared to external companies."

"AWS Trusted Advisor is a tool that we can use to optimize the AWS infrastructure cost."

"It is very stable."

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"The most valuable feature of CloudCheckr CMx High Security is granular reporting. Additionally, the user interface is easy to use."

"It will automatically suggest areas for optimization."

"CloudCheckr has enabled an average cost saving of approximately 25% from the last year, and this occurred while also increasing the scale of production."

"The solution is scalable for our purposes."

"The initial setup is straightforward."

"The best feature I like about CloudCheckr CMx High Security is its simplicity. I love that it's not rocket science to use the solution. Even if you're not familiar with the cloud, you can easily figure out how to use CloudCheckr CMx High Security. You can use AWS, you can use Azure, and you can use GCP with the solution because the integration is quite simple. You can also use multi-cloud with it, and you could see the billing part. You'll have complete visibility into your cost which I love about the solution. I also love that data on any security issues and vulnerabilities are available on the go with CloudCheckr CMx High Security. You don't need to do anything different. Just run the scan and you'll have all these open findings in the tool, in terms of the priority level, so if it's critical, it will tell you, "It's critical," and you need to fix it right away."

"It's one of the leading players for cloud optimization. It's hard to find anything better."

"The solution is mostly stable."

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Cons

"Maybe if Trusted Advisor could also help us with IP address issues and the status of our VPCs, it would be beneficial."

"Cost is a significant factor that needs improvement."

"Maybe adding more security rules would be great."

"The integration between Trusted Advisor and Security Hub sometimes lacks, and I need a way to ensure things come through there."

"For EC2 instances, we need to install the AWS CloudWatch agent to get the memory metric because we don't have a by-default memory utilization graph on cost optimization."

"Cost is a significant factor that needs improvement. Reducing the cost would make it more beneficial for all users."

"Trusted Advisor currently scans the whole system, including development, staging, and QA environments, which increases costs."

"I'd like the solution to support clouds beyond AWS."

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"Many features still need to be implemented in this tool."

"Self-healing could be a bit smoother and a bit cleaner, easier to access and more functional. That would help."

"Some aspects could be made more customizable, such as the dashboard and UI."

"The reporting and analytic capabilities are very limited."

"The solution must improve its user interface."

"The performance of the tool really needs to be improved."

"The solution needs to work better with larger capacities of data."

"What needs to be improved in CloudCheckr CMx High Security is integration. All the clouds are going quite fast, for example, all the cloud providers: Microsoft, Google, etc. CloudCheckr CMx High Security is good with AWS, no doubt about it, but with Azure and Google Cloud, I find that the solution is slow in that direction. If the vendor planned for CloudCheckr CMx High Security to be automated just for AWS, then it does make sense. If not, if the vendor is also targeting good integration with Google and Microsoft, then CloudCheckr CMx High Security integration needs improvement, in particular, it has to be faster. At the moment, its integration with Azure is not as good as its integration with AWS. With GCP, integration is nowhere."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Trusted Advisor offers various packages, with the most comprehensive costing $15,000 per month."

"The solution is reasonably priced."

"A license is needed to use CloudCheckr CMx High Security, but because we are a managed service provider, the price of the license would vary. It depends on the type of cloud users we have, for example, it would be some type of percentage or monthly billing, etc."

"The cost is on par with other providers."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Retailer

11%

Performing Arts

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

10%

University

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Large Enterprise	3

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	7

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AWS Trusted Advisor?

The Security Advisor is the most valuable feature. It instantly informs you about any system misconfigurations, and the best part is, it's completely free.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Trusted Advisor?

The cost of Trusted Advisor is reasonable, though it can be further economized by allowing selective scanning, focusing only on production systems, to avoid unnecessary costs associated with develo...

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What needs improvement with AWS Trusted Advisor?

Trusted Advisor currently scans the whole system, including development, staging, and QA environments, which increases costs. It would be better if it could selectively scan only production systems...

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What do you like most about CloudCheckr ?

The recommendation section is pretty helpful.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudCheckr ?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is fantastic.

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What needs improvement with CloudCheckr ?

An area where CloudCheckr can be improved is pricing. There are no other improvements needed for CloudCheckr that I haven't mentioned.

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CloudCheckr CMx High Security, CloudCheckr CMP

Overview

AWS Trusted Advisor is your customized cloud expert! It helps you to observe best practices for the use of AWS by inspecting your AWS environment with an eye toward saving money, improving system performance and reliability, and closing security gaps.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

CloudCheckr CMx High Security is a cloud management platform that provides complete visibility into cost and security issues. The primary use cases are day-to-day operations, cloud management, identifying open vulnerabilities and issues from a security perspective, and cost management and optimization.

The solution is praised for its stability, simplicity, ease of use, scalability, excellent technical support, and granular reporting. CloudCheckr CMx High Security provides priority-level data on security issues and vulnerabilities, making it easy to identify critical issues that need immediate attention.

Spot - A Flexera company

Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers

Accenture, Logitech, Ingram, Cloudar, Infor, DXC, Cornell University, DLT, Lumen, Lightstream, Choice Hotels, B-Tech, SmileShark, PTP, Explicity, JCH Technology, Siemens Mobility

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