We performed a comparison between AWS Cost Management [EOL] and AWS Savings Plans based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Microsoft, VMware and others in Cloud Cost Management."With the cost management tool, clients can optimize fine tuning their consumption."
"The product provides the ability to set cost limits and budgets for a set of resources on the network."
"The tool's cost management feature provides a comprehensive view of AWS costs, allowing us to plan and make cost-effective decisions. With AWS Cost Explorer, we can perform cost planning, generate recommendations, and provide clients with suggestions for resizing. This feature includes data filtering and protection, offering users insights into spending patterns through AWS spending patterns and planning tools. The product is easy to learn."
"I like the recommendation we get from AWS Cost Management to use a particular image or VM type."
"The initial setup wasn't complex at all."
"AWS Cost Management is good for providing in-depth information in one place."
"The budgeting tool of AWS Cost Management is the most valuable feature."
"All of the reporting features are very good, as they allow us to track monthly expenses and send relevant emails."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Savings Plans is we can discuss budgets briefly during our confirmation process since we are aware of our usual consumption patterns. Creating budgets in this regard would be beneficial, as it would allow us to consume only what we need, without including reserve instances that do not serve our purpose."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The solution needs to improve the communication mechanism available to the stakeholders."
"AWS could improve the compatibility with other products."
"AWS Cost Management has fewer features compared to Azure Cost Management."
"Data transfer between S3 buckets within AWS incurs costs, especially when moving data from one bucket to another or downloading data."
"We need finer-grained control over the roles and policies for users, specifying their permissions as to what they can look at."
"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."
"This program is not very scalable."
"The visibility of AWS Savings Plans could improve."
"In the future, it would be interesting if there could be a combination of Savings Plans and some Reserved Servers."
AWS Cost Management [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Cloud Cost Management with 10 reviews while AWS Savings Plans is ranked 6th in Cloud Cost Management with 2 reviews. AWS Cost Management [EOL] is rated 8.2, while AWS Savings Plans is rated 9.0. 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 AWS Savings Plans writes "Low maintenance, scales well, and straightforward implementation". AWS Cost Management [EOL] is most compared with VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, IBM Turbonomic, Cloudability, Google Cloud Billing and Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), whereas AWS Savings Plans is most compared with Azure Cost Management, Zesty, Cloudability and IBM Turbonomic.
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