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We performed a comparison between AWS Cost Management [EOL] and vRealize Business for Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"AWS Cost Management is good for providing in-depth information in one place.""All of the reporting features are very good, as they allow us to track monthly expenses and send relevant emails.""I like the recommendation we get from AWS Cost Management to use a particular image or VM type.""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.""The budgeting tool of AWS Cost Management is the most valuable feature.""The initial setup wasn't complex at all.""The initial setup was straightforward. It's not complex at all.""The product provides the ability to set cost limits and budgets for a set of resources on the network."

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"The tool helps us to monitor the services provided to customers as a cloud provider. The product is a monitoring solution that helps customers pay for their utilization of services.""The flexibility is the product's most valuable feature.""The way the dashboard works with the main orchestrator to combine different types of cloud providers is helpful.""The most valuable feature is that it has a very easy and adaptive look and feel, compared with some other cloud solutions.""This solution has made us aware that we are over-provisioning our virtual machines.""The most valuable feature is that it allows us to compare the billing between the clouds.""It doesn't take long to develop an automation blueprint. You need about half an hour, and then you can install or deploy it on several systems. That was our first great advantage in the project because we urgently needed to deploy across many different systems.""The most valuable feature is the metering capability."

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Cons
"The solution needs to improve the communication mechanism available to the stakeholders.""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 AWS Cost Management be more precise in their calculations.""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.""AWS Cost Management has fewer features compared to Azure Cost Management.""AWS could improve the compatibility with other products.""There could be an option to build custom dashboards for the platform.""This program is not very scalable."

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"If you haven't established a vSphere cluster and you only have a single server to integrate, you can't deploy any service.""I would like to have an easy way of modifying the reference data that is used for the purposes of estimating the total billing.""I would like it if they could provide their customers with more qualified support.""There are some kinks to resolve with the Web GUI user interface, as it freezes at times.""The knowledge base is not available for the engineers, which is something that needs to be improved.""It would be a good idea for VMware to be compatible with the most popular orchestration tools in the market.""The solution's private cloud is much too expensive.""Better integration with other VMware toolsets would be beneficial."

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  • "We have signed a long-term contract with AWS. There are different service levels that will determine the level of support you have."
  • "We get AWS Cost Management for free because we use AWS services."
  • "The product is affordable."
  • "AWS Cost Management is free to use."
  • "The tool's pricing depends on our services."
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  • "It's expensive, which is one of the problems with this solution."
  • "The pricing model is complicated."
  • "The product is a cost-effective solution."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer: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… more »
    Top Answer:Data transfer between S3 buckets within AWS incurs costs, especially when moving data from one bucket to another or downloading data.
    Top Answer:The tool helps us to monitor the services provided to customers as a cloud provider. The product is a monitoring solution that helps customers pay for their utilization of services.
    Top Answer:The product needs some investment in configuration. I would like to see better and more optimized configuration in the tool's future releases.
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    Rating
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    Also Known As
    Amazon Cost Management
    VMware IT Business Management Suite, VMware ITBM, IT Business Management Suite, Digital Fuel
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    Overview

    AWS Cost Management tools give you visibility into your AWS costs and usage. There are a range of AWS Cost Management tools to help you access, organize, understand, control, and optimize your costs.

    VMware IT Business Management Suite offers in three editions: Standard, Advanced, and Enterprise. VMware IT Business Management Suite provides transparency and control over the cost and quality of IT services. By providing a business context to the services IT offers, IT Business Management helps IT organizations shift from a technology orientation to a service broker orientation, delivering a portfolio of IT services that align with the needs of line of business stakeholders. With benchmarks providing objective evidence, IT Business Management also provides the fact-based approach needed to minimize the cost of IT while maximizing the value IT delivers to its customers. Greater transparency and alignment, and the continuous improvement of IT services they enable, support IT as it seeks to develop competitive advantage through major IT transformation initiatives such as cloud, mobility and data center modernization.
    Sample Customers
    Hess, Expedia, Kelloggs, Philips, HyperTrack
    Rent-A-Center, SAIC - (Science Applications International Corporation), Tribune Media, iGATE, EMC, Deutsche Telekom, GEFCO, Banca Ifis
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company12%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    University7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company14%
    Real Estate/Law Firm14%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise42%
    Large Enterprise33%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise65%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business60%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise30%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise67%
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    AWS Cost Management [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Cloud Cost Management with 10 reviews while vRealize Business for Cloud is ranked 12th in Cloud Cost Management with 10 reviews. AWS Cost Management [EOL] is rated 8.2, while vRealize Business for Cloud is rated 8.4. 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 vRealize Business for Cloud writes "Complete solution for automation, orchestration, and end-to-end lifecycle management". 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 vRealize Business for Cloud is most compared with VMware Aria Operations, VMware Aria Automation and VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth.

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