We performed a comparison between AWS Cost Management [EOL] and Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Microsoft, Nutanix and others in Cloud Cost Management."I like the recommendation we get from AWS Cost Management to use a particular image or VM type."
"The budgeting tool of AWS Cost Management is the most valuable feature."
"The product provides the ability to set cost limits and budgets for a set of resources on the network."
"The initial setup wasn't complex at all."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It's not complex at all."
"All of the reporting features are very good, as they allow us to track monthly expenses and send relevant emails."
"The stability and scalability are good."
"With the cost management tool, clients can optimize fine tuning their consumption."
"The scripting, where you can use libraries, is a valuable feature. We don't really make the blueprints, as we have a third-party company that makes them for us. But it enables calling APIs in the blueprints. When we create a machine, we use IPAM from Infoblox and we can get an IP address. It's one platform to script and we can then use all the APIs to complete the scripts. It gives us a central management tool from which we can do a lot of things automatically."
"I do a lot of tasks via automation which I previously would have to hire people to do. The solution has helped me to eliminate a lot of low-skilled labor. I can put the money required for this job into other things."
"We haven't faced any problems because Nutanix provides an outside team. We haven't had any issues requiring L3 support, and the L1 and L2 engineers are on-site."
"The Nutanix technical support is very, very good."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the disaster recovery portion, which they call Xi Leap. It's included in the licensing. Before, we were on a solution that charged extra for DR software. And with Prism Pro, not only can we manage all of our other infrastructure in addition to our DR, in the same console, but we can set up recovery points. We can also set up scripts to run, so it gives us everything we need to have a solid DR plan in place."
"The most valuable feature for me is being able to find a machine, regardless of which cluster it's located in, as quickly as possible, and being able to work on it. A lot of times we are called upon to troubleshoot an issue. That usually means there's a problem that needs quick attention. Being able to find machines, ascertain their status, and do so in a timely manner, are processes that are very critical to our business needs."
"What I found most valuable in Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is the one-click upgrade and the analytics it can provide for hyper-converged infrastructure."
"The file server feature in Nutanix is very good, offering a solution-worthy feature that can host files, blocks, and object storage in the same cluster."
"I would like to see AWS Cost Management be more precise in their calculations."
"There could be an option to build custom dashboards for the platform."
"I would like to see the forecasting models improved with AWS Cost Management."
"The solution needs to have its own dashboard for seeing details on it. It should be customizable as well so I have the ability to pull up the information I need to see and have it in one place for my reference. I should just be able to click and see everything I need in one step."
"We need finer-grained control over the roles and policies for users, specifying their permissions as to what they can look at."
"AWS could improve the compatibility with other products."
"AWS Cost Management has fewer features compared to Azure Cost Management."
"The solution needs to improve the communication mechanism available to the stakeholders."
"Azure has a public cloud offering, and it also has a CSP model that allows Microsoft partners to provide Azure as a service to their customers. Cost Governance only works on the standard public cloud, not the CSP model. When I was at my previous company, we frequently got requests for Azure CSP support. We also got some requests for Alibaba Cloud and Oracle Cloud, but Azure CSP was the biggest one."
"In the next release, I would like to see more cloud providers like Micro BH or local providers."
"The commercialization of their data fiber needs improvement to gain more traction with VMware."
"When we tried to migrate an application from the old cluster, we couldn't run it on Nutanix’s native hypervisor."
"Even though it's a lot easier, it could be a bit slicker for the end-users. The ability to create their own blueprints could be without their having to understand the details of what they're trying to do. If they could just tick this, this, this, and this — whatever they need — and it would go spinning those up, that would be better. Now, we still guide them quite a bit."
"There is room for improvement in making the solution easier still. If you don't know Calm, it's not so easy to use... It is a really good solution for doing simple tasks, but it's not a good solution for complex tasks."
"Compatibility with multiple clouds and a single control would help us. We are also getting onto GCP, and there is limited compatibility with GCP in the areas we need. We are using GCP primarily for data analytics."
"They should include more use cases for automation in administering the environment."
AWS Cost Management [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Cloud Cost Management with 10 reviews while Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is ranked 3rd in Cloud Cost Management with 72 reviews. AWS Cost Management [EOL] is rated 8.2, while Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of AWS Cost Management [EOL] writes "Easy to use and provides in-depth information in one place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) writes "Highly scalable and stable, with one-click upgrade and analytics features, and provides excellent support". AWS Cost Management [EOL] is most compared with VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth, IBM Turbonomic, Cloudability, Google Cloud Billing and Azure Cost Management, whereas Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) is most compared with vCloud Director, Morpheus, Nutanix Prism, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and VMware Aria Operations.
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