AWS Cost Explorer vs. vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS Cost Explorer
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
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
vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
vRealize Suite and vCloud Suite delivered a self-service consumption layer, an automation framework and self-driving Day 2 operations for VMware Cloud. The product is no longer available.
$10
per month per core
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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FCO Hosting Edition
$10
per month per core
FCO Hosting Edition
$10
per Cluster & Hypervisor Combination/Annual
FCO Single Cluster Edition
$16
per month per core
FCO Hosting Edition
$128
per month Max Core Limit
FCO Single Cluster Edition
$1500
per Cluster & Hypervisor Combination/Annual
FCO Single Cluster Edition
Unlimited
per month Max Core Limit
FCO Multiple Cluster Edition
Unlimited
per month Max Core Limit
FCO Multiple Cluster Edition
Contact Sales
per month per core
FCO Multiple Cluster Edition
Contact Sales
per Cluster & Hypervisor Combination/Annual
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AWS Cost ExplorervRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
AWS Cost ExplorervRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
Cloud Management
Comparison of Cloud Management features of Product A and Product B
AWS Cost Explorer
-
Ratings
vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
8.1
1 Ratings
8% below category average
Cloud Management Security00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Automation and Orchestration00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Cost Management00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Cloud Management Performance Monitoring00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Governance and Compliance00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Resource Management00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Systems Integration00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Best Alternatives
AWS Cost ExplorervRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
Small Businesses

No answers on this topic

VMware Cloud Director
VMware Cloud Director
Score 8.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
IBM Turbonomic
IBM Turbonomic
Score 8.9 out of 10
IBM Turbonomic
IBM Turbonomic
Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprises
vRealize Operations (discontinued)
vRealize Operations (discontinued)
Score 9.2 out of 10
vRealize Operations (discontinued)
vRealize Operations (discontinued)
Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
AWS Cost ExplorervRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AWS Cost ExplorervRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
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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It is most suited where there multi cloud platform as VCloud suite provides most 2 important licences i.e. Vsphere 9India's leading hypervisor) and Vrealize Suite which helps to automate and also simplies IT management by making the solution most agile, efficient and easy to use. If there is a simple environment with just few servers where there is need for only 2-3 VMs, i will not recommend this.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Cost management
  • Cost Recommendations
  • Forecast
  • Usage
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  • One management platform for all the VMs across datacenters
  • Automation of IT management
  • Makes IT or Cloud management more agile and efficient.
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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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  • There is nothing exactly like cons but one must should check all the features, it can be confusing at the times.
  • It can be expensive as compared to some other products available in the market.
  • Implementation can be little tricky, should done by Vmware engineer
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Usability
Amazon AWS
easy to use, intuitive
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Discontinued Products
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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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Discontinued Products
VCloud mostly provides cloud management platform, all others also provide the same plus some other features so, Vcloud can be little less expensive in comparison to other solutions available in market. Also, it's very easy to use and deploy and manage your cloud platform. It is widely used by mid scale as well as large scale companies.
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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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  • Positive only- Vrealize suite helps is IT automation by making it cost-effective and efficient.
  • Less time is consumed by our IT administrators because of Automating process and they can do better monitoring
  • It can be really cost effective for if any company wants to make private cloud. It did the same with us as through vCloud we get all the VMware software required.
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