We performed a comparison between AWS Cost Management [EOL] and IBM Turbonomic based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Microsoft, VMware and others in Cloud Cost Management."I like the recommendation we get from AWS Cost Management to use a particular image or VM type."
"With the cost management tool, clients can optimize fine tuning their consumption."
"All of the reporting features are very good, as they allow us to track monthly expenses and send relevant emails."
"The initial setup wasn't complex at all."
"The budgeting tool of AWS Cost Management is the most valuable feature."
"AWS Cost Management is good for providing in-depth information in one place."
"The stability and scalability are good."
"The product provides the ability to set cost limits and budgets for a set of resources on the network."
"The most valuable features are the cluster utilization reports and the resource capacity planning. We can simulate how much capacity we can add to the current resources. The individual DM reports and VM-facing recommendations report are also helpful."
"I only deal with the infrastructure side, so I really couldn't speak to more than load balancing as the most valuable feature for me. It provides specific actions that prevent resource starvation. It always keeps things in perfect balance."
"Before implementing Turbonomic, we had difficulty reaching a consensus about VM placement and sizing. Everybody's opinion was wrong, including mine. The application developers, implementers, and infrastructure team could never decide the appropriate size of a virtual machine. I always made the machines small, and they always made them too big. We were both probably wrong."
"The ability to monitor and automate both the right-sizing of VMs as well as to automate the vMotion of VMs across ESXi hosts."
"We have a system where our developers automate machine builds, and that is constantly running out of resources. Turbonomic helps us with that, so I don't have to keep buying hardware. The developers always say, "They don't have enough. They don't have enough. They don't have enough," when they just configured it improperly. Therefore, Turbonomic helps us identify configuration issues on their side so it doesn't cost me money on the other end to buy resources that I don't really need."
"My favorite part of the solution is the automation scheduling. Being able to choose when actions happen, and how they happen..."
"The proactive monitoring of all our open enrollment applications has improved our organization. We have used it to size applications that we are moving to the cloud. Therefore, when we move them out there, we have them appropriately sized. We use it for reporting to current application owners, showing them where they are wasting money. There are easy things to find for an application, e.g., they decommissioned the server, but they never took care of the storage. Without a tool like this, that storage would just sit there forever, with us getting billed for it."
"With over 2500 ESX VMs, including 1500+ XenDesktop VDI desktops, hosted over two datacentres and 80+ vSphere hosts, firefighting has become something of the past."
"Data transfer between S3 buckets within AWS incurs costs, especially when moving data from one bucket to another or downloading data."
"I would like to see AWS Cost Management be more precise in their calculations."
"The solution needs to improve the communication mechanism available to the stakeholders."
"I would like to see the forecasting models improved with AWS Cost Management."
"There could be an option to build custom dashboards for the platform."
"AWS could improve the compatibility with other products."
"This program is not very scalable."
"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."
"Recovering resources when they're not needed is not as optimized as it could be."
"It would be nice for them to have a way to do something with physical machines, but I know that is not their strength Thankfully, the majority of our environment is virtual, but it would be nice to see this type of technology across some other platforms. It would be nice to have capacity planning across physical machines."
"We don't use Turbonomic for FinOps and part of the reason is its cost reporting. The reporting could be much more robust and, if that were the case, I could pitch it for FinOps."
"Turbonomic can modernize the look and feel, making it more user-friendly to access and obtain information."
"Remove the need for special in-house knowledge and development."
"After running this solution in production for a year, we may want a more granular approach to how we utilize the product because we are planning to use some of its metrics to feed into our financial system."
"Before IBM bought it, the support was fantastic. After IBM bought it, the support became very disappointing."
"Since the introduction of a HTML 5 based interface, our main - but minor - criticism of a less than intuitive operation managers' GUI would be the area of improvement."
AWS Cost Management [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Cloud Cost Management with 10 reviews while IBM Turbonomic is ranked 1st in Cloud Cost Management with 204 reviews. AWS Cost Management [EOL] is rated 8.2, while IBM Turbonomic 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 IBM Turbonomic writes "The solution reduced our operational expenditures and is able to identify points before we even noticed them ". AWS Cost Management [EOL] is most compared with VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, Cloudability, Google Cloud Billing, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) and Azure Cost Management, whereas IBM Turbonomic is most compared with VMware Aria Operations, Azure Cost Management, Cisco Intersight, VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth and VMware vSphere.
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