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AWS Systems Manager vs. VMware Cloud Director

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS Systems Manager
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
AWS Systems Manager allows users to centralize operational data from multiple AWS services and automate tasks across your AWS resources. With it, users can create logical groups of resources such as applications, different layers of an application stack, or production versus development environments. Systems Manager allows users to select a resource group and view its recent API activity, resource configuration changes, related notifications, operational alerts, software inventory, and patch…
$0.20
Per Million Calls
VMware Cloud Director
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
VMware Cloud Director (formerly vCloud Director) is a cloud service-delivery platform used by cloud providers to operate and manage cloud-service businesses. The vendor states that by using VMware Cloud Director, cloud providers deliver secure, efficient, and elastic cloud resources to thousands of enterprises and IT teams across the world.N/A
Pricing
AWS Systems ManagerVMware Cloud Director
Editions & Modules
AppConfig
$0.20
Per Million Calls
OpsCenter
$2.97
Per 1,000 Items
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AWS Systems ManagerVMware Cloud Director
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
AWS Systems ManagerVMware Cloud Director
Considered Both Products
AWS Systems Manager
VMware Cloud Director
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose VMware Cloud Director
Another option was own scripting or maintaining the end users in the backend (vcenter). This costs to much time to maintain (scripting) and has a big change of a Security breach. It was not an option for us either way.
Michael O'Riley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Michael O'Riley
Director of Information Technology
Chose VMware Cloud Director
Hyper-V is built on a Windows platform that includes services not needed for the virtual environment adding overhead. With vCloud I'm not required to maintain a host OS or it's updates. The requirement to maintain storage devices is no longer needed with vCloud as well.
John Wellen | TrustRadius Reviewer
John Wellen
Cloud Technical Lead
Chose VMware Cloud Director
vCloud Director is definitely my favorite as far as cloud managers. The only thing that compares is Cisco UCS Director, but it has slightly different functionality and purpose. I understand why a lot of clients still go with vCloud Director even though VMware intends to sunset …
Features
AWS Systems ManagerVMware Cloud Director
Cloud Management
Comparison of Cloud Management features of Product A and Product B
AWS Systems Manager
8.0
Ratings
8% below category average
VMware Cloud Director
-
Ratings
Cloud Management Security8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Automation and Orchestration7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Cost Management7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud Management Performance Monitoring9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Governance and Compliance9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Management8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Systems Integration8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
AWS Systems ManagerVMware Cloud Director
Small Businesses
VMware Cloud Director
VMware Cloud Director
Score 8.5 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
IBM Turbonomic
IBM Turbonomic
Score 9.3 out of 10

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Enterprises
vRealize Operations (discontinued)
vRealize Operations (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10

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User Ratings
AWS Systems ManagerVMware Cloud Director
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AWS Systems ManagerVMware Cloud Director
Likelihood to Recommend
When you have a process running in aws that needs to copy files to group of instances as part of the process Installing software on a group of machines Adding Cloudwatch agent to instance.
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Anonymous
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For a CSP it's the best choice. For internal uses, even in presence of different business units, it's not so easy and flexible to manage. It assures a high level of multitenancy, often not needed for internal purposes. But it could be used in this case, just not created for these purposes. Network management is great.
Raffaello Poltronieri | TrustRadius Reviewer
Raffaello Poltronieri
Cloud Solutions Architect
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Pros
  • Copy files to a group of instance with particular tag
  • Enable CW agent and push metrics to CW
  • Easy to install software in a group of instances.
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Anonymous
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  • Manages multi-tenancy very well. You can setup resource pools of compute, network, and storage that are independent of each other.
  • Easy to create and manage multiple environments.
  • Has lease management technology and can easily set leases and expire them based on pre-configured time frames.
John Wellen | TrustRadius Reviewer
John Wellen
Cloud Technical Lead
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Cons
  • I would like to see the Search feature improved a bit more.
  • UI is little bit confusing initially
Verified User
Anonymous
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  • Logging, there is a lot of logging but is not always clear where to look for the right logging.
  • The syncing of policy, you can't see if or what he did/didn't sync and the status of it.
  • More integrations with VMware product (click like Availability)
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Anonymous
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Alternatives Considered
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Another option was own scripting or maintaining the end users in the backend (vcenter). This costs to much time to maintain (scripting) and has a big change of a Security breach. It was not an option for us either way.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Return on Investment
  • Reduced team's time spent on EC2 management
  • Patch management
  • Remote access
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Anonymous
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  • vCloud Director requires less IT administration. For example, there isn't a need to maintain esx host. or storage administration like creating luns.
  • A negative impact is cost. vCloud Director has a monthly cost for storage, processor core, memory, and licensing.
Michael O'Riley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Michael O'Riley
Director of Information Technology
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