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Feature Set Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service
Amazon CloudWatch
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
7.9
IBM Cloud Managed Istio
79%
IBM Cloud Managed Istio ranks higher in 11/11 features
IBM Cloud Managed Istio ranks higher in 11/11 features
Ease of building user interfaces
N/A
0 Ratings
6.7
67%
5 Ratings
Scalability
N/A
0 Ratings
7.7
77%
5 Ratings
Platform management overhead
N/A
0 Ratings
7.5
75%
5 Ratings
Workflow engine capability
N/A
0 Ratings
8.0
80%
5 Ratings
Platform access control
N/A
0 Ratings
8.2
82%
5 Ratings
Services-enabled integration
N/A
0 Ratings
7.8
78%
5 Ratings
Development environment creation
N/A
0 Ratings
8.0
80%
5 Ratings
Development environment replication
N/A
0 Ratings
8.0
80%
5 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification
N/A
0 Ratings
8.2
82%
5 Ratings
Issue recovery
N/A
0 Ratings
8.7
87%
5 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes
N/A
0 Ratings
7.5
75%
5 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- Amazon CloudWatch is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Support Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
Amazon CloudWatch
89%
40 Ratings
8.5
IBM Cloud Managed Istio
85%
5 Ratings
Support Rating
8.0
Amazon CloudWatch
80%
14 Ratings
6.4
IBM Cloud Managed Istio
64%
2 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon CloudWatch
Cloud watch is great and essential if you decide to invest in AWS and have any need to monitor the health of all aspects of your VPC resources, or at the organizational level (multiple accounts). Another benefit of the service is constant upgrades at no additional costs; the software evolves to develop modules and interface improvements. For first-time users in AWS, this is going to take a bit to understand, so the learning curve to this metrics environment can seem overwhelming at first glance/use.
Senior Systems Administrator
Bentek Inc.Computer Software, 51-200 employees
IBM Cloud Managed Istio
Clearly, the [IBM Cloud Managed Istio] tool is very useful when you have multiple services and each service is connecting with other services through APIs in different networks. To manage this type of complex network, [IBM Cloud Managed Istio] is very useful. It comes with a license that can increase the billing of your project so make sure if your application network mesh, monitoring cannot be managed on your own then you can use it.If your application is not very complex then you have many tools available like Grafana, Prometheus, Sumo Logic, which you can integrate individually with your cluster and implement. In this type of scenario, it is better to not use [IBM Cloud Managed Istio] and it will serve your purpose as well.
Infrastructure Engineer
Volt BankInvestment Banking, 501-1000 employees
Pros
Amazon CloudWatch
- It provides lot many out of the box dashboard to observe the health and usage of your cloud deployments. Few examples are CPU usage, Disk read/write, Network in/out etc.
- It is possible to stream CloudWatch log data to Amazon Elasticsearch to process them almost real time.
- If you have setup your code pipeline and wants to see the status, CloudWatch really helps. It can trigger lambda function when certain cloudWatch event happens and lambda can store the data to S3 or Athena which Quicksight can represent.
Senior Solutions Architect
InfostretchInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees
IBM Cloud Managed Istio
- Layers transparently onto existing applications
- Allows control of access and rules to be developed
- Creates metrics for usage
Senior Manager Workforce Planning - Project Managment
HalliburtonOil & Energy, 10,001+ employees
Cons
Amazon CloudWatch
- Memory metrics on EC2 are not available on CloudWatch. Depending on workloads if we need visibility on memory metrics we use Solarwinds Orion with the agent installed. For scalable workloads, this involves customization of images being used.
- Visualization out of the box. But this can easily be addressed with other solutions such as Grafana.
- By design, this is only used for AWS workloads so depending on your environment cannot be used as an all in one solution for your monitoring.

Verified User
Professional in Finance and Accounting
Financial Services Company, 501-1000 employeesIBM Cloud Managed Istio
- Some more functionalities added could improve it better.
- Better technical user guidance.

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Banking Company, 5001-10,000 employeesPricing Details
Amazon CloudWatch
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$0.0,012 per canary run
Amazon CloudWatch Editions & Modules
Edition
First 10,000 Metrics | $0.301 |
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Next 240,000 Metrics | $0.101 |
Next 750,000 Metrics | $0.051 |
Over 1,000,000 Metrics | $0.021 |
Dashboard | $3.002 |
Alarm - Standard Resolution (60 Sec) | $0.103 |
Alarm - High Resolution (10 Sec) | $0.303 |
Alarm - Composite | $0.504 |
Logs - Collect (Data Ingestion) | $0.505 |
Logs - Store (Archival) | $0.035 |
Logs - Analyze (Logs Insights queries) | $0.0056 |
Events - Custom | $1.007 |
Events - Cross-account | $1.007 |
Contributor Insights | $0.508 |
Contributor Insights - Matched Log Events | $0.029 |
Canaries | $0.001210 |
CloudWatch Evidently - Events | $511 |
CloudWatch Evidently - Analysis Units | $7.5012 |
CloudWatch RUM | $113 |
- per month
- per month per dashboard
- per month per alarm metric
- per month per alarm
- per GB
- per GB of data scanned
- per million events
- per month per rule
- per month per one million log events that match the rule
- per canary run
- per 1 million events
- per 1 million analysis units
- per 100k events
Additional Pricing Details
With Amazon CloudWatch, there is no up-front commitment or minimum fee; you simply pay for what you use. You will be charged at the end of the month for your usage.IBM Cloud Managed Istio
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—IBM Cloud Managed Istio Editions & Modules
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Additional Pricing Details
—Support Rating
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch 8.0
Based on 14 answers
Support is effective, and we were able to get any problems that we couldn't get solved through community discussion forums solved for us by the AWS support team. For example, we were assisted in one instance where we were not sure about the best metrics to use in order to optimize an auto-scaling group on EC2. The support team was able to look at our metrics and give a useful recommendation on which metrics to use.
Lead Consultant - Technology
VirtusaComputer Software, 10,001+ employees
IBM Cloud Managed Istio
IBM Cloud Managed Istio 6.4
Based on 2 answers
Training and usage support available

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employeesAlternatives Considered
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch is efficient, reliable and has a high speed response as compared to its competitors and it maximizes an application's life at the same time giving you the best load balance and storage, the services that Amazon CloudWatch provides are way better and cheaper for the prices attached to them.
Network Engineer
JohannesburgInformation Technology & Services, 5001-10,000 employees
IBM Cloud Managed Istio

Verified User
Engineer in Corporate
Renewables & Environment Company, 1001-5000 employeesReturn on Investment
Amazon CloudWatch
- We were able to set up log streaming, retention, and simple downtime alerts within a few hours, having no prior experience with CloudWatch, freeing up our engineers to focus on more important business goals.
- CloudWatch log groups have made it relatively easy to detect and diagnose issues in production by allowing us to aggregate logs across servers, correlate failures, isolate misbehaving servers, etc. Thanks to CloudWatch, we are generally able to identify, understand and mitigate most production fires within 10-15 minutes.
- Choosing CloudWatch to manage log aggregation has saved us quite a bit of time and money over the past year. Generally, 3rd-party log aggregation solutions tend to get quite expensive unless you self-host, in which case you typically need to spend a fair amount of time setting up, maintaining, and monitoring these services.
Founder
finbox.ioInternet, 1-10 employees
IBM Cloud Managed Istio
- It reduced the complexity of network mesh (ingress/egress services).
- One tool with many solutions. No need to integrate monitoring tools or notification tools.
- It reduced the number of lines of YAML code.
- It reduced the number of labor hours.
Infrastructure Engineer
Volt BankInvestment Banking, 501-1000 employees