We performed a comparison between Amazon CloudWatch and Azure Cost Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Datadog, Wazuh and others in Log Management."Every time we get an alarm or have an incident, CloudWatch is always there. We use it not only for resources we've spun up in the cloud, but also for some of our on-premises resources."
"It is a stable solution...I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"What I found most valuable in Amazon CloudWatch is that it gives you detailed information, which I found helpful because it can even provide you with data for the past one minute, which is quite granular. That was what helped me most in terms of finding the root causes. Task automation is another valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch."
"Amazon CloudWatch is a cheap and easy-to-use solution."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is reliability."
"You can enable alarms and metrics, and it has robust integration with AWS services. You can also trigger events. For example, if the CPU utilization is above 80%, it can launch a new instance for you."
"It is a robust analytical tool and it goes beyond mere functionality and extends into the realm of providing comprehensive insights."
"The detection is the most valuable feature."
"During the two years I've been working with this solution, it has only been down once or twice. Thus, I would rate the stability of the solution at nine out of ten."
"Microsoft's technical support is good."
"It is a fully scalable product with the potential to enhance our application and increase our servers. All cloud-based solutions are fully scalable."
"I like the granularity of the tools."
"The product provides visibility into what we are consuming."
"We use Azure DevOps, and the product helps us understand the cost with the help of the Azure DevOps center."
"Cost management is the console's most valuable feature."
"The best thing about Azure Cost Management is the cost analysis functionality because it provides regular alerts."
"I do not know whether or not CloudWatch can be integrated with on-prem services."
"It would be beneficial for CloudWatch to provide an API interface and some kind of custom configuration."
"I think something that can be improved are the alerts and alerting mechanism based on no rejects. We want to have it more flexible and that is one of the key things that is required."
"The product's configuration has some challenges. The solution needs to be more user-friendly."
"Amazon CloudWatch needs improvement. The main thing is we have noticed missing logs."
"What would make Amazon CloudWatch better is if it includes more on-site checks, particularly status checks on the CPU, network input/output, etc. It would also be helpful if there's built-in swap space, disk, and memory monitoring in Amazon CloudWatch because, at the moment, my team has to configure it manually through a shell script."
"The dashboard and the UI could improve in Amazon CloudWatch. Additionally, they should focus on visibility inside the servers with AI and machine learning integrations. This would allow users who are using the solution to see what is happening within the system better."
"The dashboard of Amazon CloudWatch is not very customizable right now."
"The solution needs an automated dashboard and better reporting."
"Be wary of unnecessary costs."
"If it worked better with other cloud providers it would be better."
"The product's licensing cost could be improved."
"We would like to see more flexibility added to this solution, such as being able to compare reservations, or compare costs across multiple financial years and report on the reasons for deviation in spend."
"We have encountered delays in support."
"The UI is complex, and it should be less so."
"It would be nice if they could introduce connections to other clouds. It would be good to connect to AWS and Oracle cloud."
Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 12th in Log Management with 40 reviews while Azure Cost Management is ranked 2nd in Cloud Cost Management with 41 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Azure Cost Management is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure Cost Management writes "A good, but limited cost information solution with strong analytics but requiring more flexibility in its reporting functionality". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and VMware Aria Operations for Applications, whereas Azure Cost Management is most compared with IBM Turbonomic, VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, AWS Savings Plans, Cloudability and Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM).
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