CloudZero is a cost tool that pulls in both billing and resource data from across an AWS account, then runs it through a data normalization and machine learning engine to automatically group costs and surface insights. Instead of spending time building dashboards and setting budget thresholds, CloudZero automatically sorts data and correlates cost with the activity that caused it, letting users know how costs are trending.
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IBM Cloudability
Score 8.8 out of 10
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IBM Cloudability is a cloud cost management and optimization (FinOps) tool that enables IT, finance, and business teams to optimize their cloud spend across all cost sources, all maturity levels, and for all stakeholders.
Turbonomic is still an onpremise solution. Lacks integration capabilities. CloudZero offers Multicloud Cost management solution through their SaaS platform and the integration is simple for most of the Hyperscaler Platforms. No training is required for deployment and to manage …
I personally think Cloudability is great, but sells themselves short in some areas of functionality, or it may have the functionality but it's difficult to fully realize it as there are so many filters and ways to build a reports, also can the dashboards be shared easily into …
From the limited time that I've been there, I mean in the renewal talks it's been, I think Cloud Zero was another competitor that we were in talks with, but I'm not entirely sure what direction we're going. That's above my pay grade.
Some of the advantages include: Better decision making: Evaluating Reserved Instance (RI) or Savings Plan Utilization Detecting unexpected cost increases by drilling down into usage patterns and pinpointing the root cause (e.g., sudden EC2 scaling or S3 storage growth).
not using any similar products, but Cloudability is able to provide all necessary features and functionality for our organization and our customer to get the right information on their cloud spend. The ability to customize the dashboard is also a very useful feature. …
For a single project and quick analysis about why my costs when overboard or why forecast is showing more than my budget, it is much easier to use AWS Cost Explorer over IBM Cloudability. I think this area should definitely improve and do some smart suggestions using AI …
IBM Cloudability stands out in the cloud cost management landscape due to its comprehensive features, strong multi-cloud support, and alignment with FinOps practices. Here's how it compares to other leading tools:
Apptio Cloudability (pre-IBM acquisition), CloudHealth by VMware, AWS Cost Explorer, and Azure Cost Management. Each has its strengths, but Cloudability stood out for its multi-cloud coverage, commitment discount optimization, and finance-friendly reporting capabilities.
Recently, I got an opportunity to review this tool in the India Apptio User Conference. Currently, I'm going through the use cases of this tool and checking if this helps us in any of the use cases. also, I've heard from the speaker that IBM Kubecost will be integrated in the …
We tried a few different tools as part of a POC but the fact that there is the IBM name attached to Apptio and just the complexity of our enterprise systems was something that we felt was best served by the IBM Cloudability tool. It integrated seamlessly with the multiple cloud …
For a Global Supply Chain SaaS Organization we are able to track the Cloud Resource Unit Economics through CloudZero. Multiple Dashboards, Weekly Reports for identify the Cloud Cost breakup, tracking Cost Anomalies, Identify resource wastage, Multicloud cost spend visibility, AKS, Container, AI Costs visbility and Optimization insights, Proactive alerts on cost spikes,
Good tool to start FinOps journey in a medium sized (or above) company. Currently missing AI capabilities that are now available with a lot of FinOps vendors in the market. Also, apptio currently does not have FOCUS dataset nomenclature, that can be worked upon.
It shows the visibility into the cost and a single pane of glass for all of our cloud providers, multiple products in those multi-cloud. So it shows us our spending across the cloud by vendor, by product, and by all the tags that we have in the cloud. So it gives us visibility into many different directions in our cost.
There is currently no ability to apply global filters over the data in cloudability. Rather users must go through a difficult process to create custom views which they are later able to apply over top of their datasets.
Drill functionality does not really exists but appears to be more of an after though add-on. Yes you are able to "drill" but the visuals disappear and even the ability to export the more detailed information.
Cloudability has been one solution for almost all of our FinOps needs. Except for Data transfer costs, we have covered all use cases and have made significant savings across our cloud infrastructure. Reporting has provided management a deeper analysis into their spending and helped them forecast their budgets for next year
Excellent MultiCloud Cost Management Solution for Global SaaS Companies to track their Multicloud Spend and complete cloud cost visibility for each product line. Supports AWS,Azure, GCP, Snowflake Cloud Platforms. Proactive Cost alerts, AI integration for cost optimization opportunities
In terms of setting up the Apptio Cloud ability and configuring the Cloud Subscriptions and Accounts its very much clearly defined and also in terms of the User interface its very rich in terms of the navigation and look and feel factors its cool.
While there have been few support cases where the experience was good. But in multiple support cases it's firstly delayed and even after weeks or months of time, team is not able to provide us with the RCA of the issue. All they are claiming is the issue is now fixed which I still see coming back after few days or weeks as we've never identified and addressed the root cause.
Training was adequate, but the real learning begins when you start using the product, like most things. All major functions were covered so as an entry point, was a good introduction to the product. The training pace was good as well, the areas were covered in decent depth, without being too much of an information overload.
Turbonomic is still an onpremise solution. Lacks integration capabilities. CloudZero offers Multicloud Cost management solution through their SaaS platform and the integration is simple for most of the Hyperscaler Platforms. No training is required for deployment and to manage and operate CloudZero platform. Great support from thier customer management team by conducting weekly Meetings with customer.
From the limited time that I've been there, I mean in the renewal talks it's been, I think Cloud Zero was another competitor that we were in talks with, but I'm not entirely sure what direction we're going. That's above my pay grade.
