AWS Cost Explorer vs. AWS Trusted Advisor

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS Cost Explorer
Score 8.3 out of 10
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AWS Cost Explorer's interface is used to visualize, understand, and manage AWS costs and usage over time. Users can get custom reports that analyze cost and usage data, and analyze data at a high level (for example, total costs and usage across all accounts), or dive deeper into cost and usage data to identify trends, pinpoint cost drivers, and detect anomalies.N/A
AWS Trusted Advisor
Score 6.2 out of 10
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AWS Trusted Advisor is an online tool that provides users real time guidance to help provision resources following AWS best practices. Trusted Advisor checks help optimize AWS infrastructure, increase security and performance, reduce overall costs, and monitor service limits. Whether establishing new workflows, developing applications, or as part of ongoing improvement, the recommendations provided by Trusted Advisor are designed to help keep solutions provisioned optimally.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AWS Cost ExplorerAWS Trusted Advisor
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
IBM Turbonomic
IBM Turbonomic
Score 9.0 out of 10
IBM Turbonomic
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
Detect sudden increases in spending and drill down to root causes. Review monthly AWS bills to identify top services and accounts driving costs. Monitor costs against budgets and set alerts to prevent overspending. Predict upcoming costs based on historical trends for financial planning. Allocate costs to teams or projects using tags and linked accounts. Check utilization of Reserved Instances or Savings Plans for optimization.
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Amazon AWS
It is well suited for an organization that uses AWS tools and technologies. as AWS is very popular in the market. you can use almost any service with it. the only thing is your organization must be using AWS services. It is not also cheap so the price can be the issue.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Cost management
  • Cost Recommendations
  • Forecast
  • Usage
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Amazon AWS
  • Cost Optimization
  • Effective use of services
  • Performance Report
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • granular data such as Kubernetes usage, cost and optimization
  • spot recommendations
  • granular data such as AI usage, cost and optimization
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Amazon AWS
  • Although It Provides very good recommendations some times they do not seem logical.
  • Cost estimation can be improved further for particular services
  • Need to have a business or Enterprise plan to access you can give some trial period to try
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Usability
Amazon AWS
easy to use, intuitive
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
It is pretty comparable. We selected Cloudability, Cubecost and AWS Cost Explorer. It provides more comprehensive predictivity
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Amazon AWS
It does a good job not only it provides cost estimation but also it provides security measures that we have to take to make sure that we are not vulnerable to attacks. It also gives a performance report which helps to analyze the resource allocation and free resources more effectively.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Helped to meet the saving targets
  • Better transparency and financial accentuality
  • Detect issues
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Amazon AWS
  • Optimized resources
  • less security attacks
  • Saved from overbudget
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