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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

8.0
VMware Cloud Director
80%
4 Ratings
Support Rating
8.1
Amazon CloudWatch
81%
14 Ratings

3.0
VMware Cloud Director
30%
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
VMware Cloud Director
For a CSP it's the best choice. For internal uses, even in presence of different business units, it's not so easy and flexible to manage. It assures a high level of multitenancy, often not needed for internal purposes. But it could be used in this case, just not created for these purposes. Network management is great.
Cloud Solutions Architect
Clouditalia TelecomunicazioniTelecommunications, 201-500 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
VMware Cloud Director
- The advantage to using vCloud Director is it a cloud based application allowing access anywhere. I have the ability to make changes to our virtual environment without being in the office or using a vpn.
- The vCloud Director provides a lot of the same features as vSphere.
Director of Information Technology
International Food Protection Training InstituteNon-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 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 employeesVMware Cloud Director
- It is not good for end users or customers to use. The UI is geared more towards VMware admins.
- There is somewhat of a learning curve to it, you have to think through and plan out how you want to set your OVDC and PVDCs up. It takes a lot of architecture experience.
- Once you built workloads in vCloud director, it's real difficult to take them out or manage them directly in vSphere. This is a huge pain.
Cloud Technical Lead
DatalinkInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Pricing 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.VMware Cloud Director
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—VMware Cloud Director Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Support Rating
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch 8.1
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
VMware Cloud Director
VMware Cloud Director 3.0
Based on 2 answers
Like most VMware, the vCloud Director support is not the best.
Socio / Director
On CloudComputer & Network Security, 11-50 employees
Alternatives 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
VMware Cloud Director
Hyper-V is built on a Windows platform that includes services not needed for the virtual environment adding overhead. With vCloud I'm not required to maintain a host OS or it's updates. The requirement to maintain storage devices is no longer needed with vCloud as well.
Director of Information Technology
International Food Protection Training InstituteNon-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees
Return 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
VMware Cloud Director
- Time to market = 0 means profits almost immediate after investment
- Customers trust the VMware brand more than any other
- Elasticity: allowing the company to choose the best HW in the lower layer
Cloud Solutions Architect
Clouditalia TelecomunicazioniTelecommunications, 201-500 employees