IBM Cloudability Information Reviews & Insights

I help customers use Apptio Cloudability, I do not personally use it to solve issues that I personally have. The things we do are help customers with organizing their cloud costs so that they can do a showback or chargeback model. Other use cases are to clean up errors in the Cloud billing too, and find opportunities to save money using the cloud through optimization.

Apptio Cloudability is good for large enterprises where they need to bring all their payer accounts, linked accounts, subscriptions, etc into a singular view. It's not great if companies are already well organized and can use cloud native tools to solve their issues. I think Apptio Cloudability costs to much for smaller customers that really could use the help.

CloudZero

Apptio Cloudability is more end user friendly than CloudZero. Specifically regarding organizing the cloud spend. CloudZero is designed more for someone who has more technical experience than a typical finance analyst has. Whereas Cloudability is more user friendly and straightforward in how to map costs appropriately.

I use Apptio Cloudability as a partner with IBM.

I give Apptio Cloudability an eight out of ten because it is great at cost optimization.

We use for multiple hyper scalers to view spend. Optimize and cross charge

Normalization of multi clouds helps my consumers see the full spend and possibilities to improve

We decided to use it for cloud spend management.

We are a start up and needed this type of cloud management during this hyper growth period.

AspenOne Supply Chain Management

We use Cloudability to see and manage our cloud spend throughout the organization. Cloudability allows us to easily consolidate and normalize our tags for reporting as well as segment our spend into views so that our dashboards and reports show the right information to the right users. Cloudability is able to provide optimization recommendations for each of our groupings as well, helping us target projects to work on and track our progress. Cloudability has not limits on licensing for reporting as well, so we can ensure that everyone with management or operation of cloud spend can have access to see their numbers.

For FinOps teams with limited staff resources and technical/programming skillsets, Cloudability is a great tool to help you report on and track your cloud usage and spend, easily. The tool aligns well to the FinOps domains and practices defined by the FinOps Foundation and provides robust ways to surface and track opportunities for improvement and automation. For teams looking for automated or very detailed optimization, the tool is lacking services and features. For teams with very specific use cases that require data sets outside of cloud vendors, you may need to invest in the TotalCost package, and even still, you may find some gaps. Overall, I would recommend this tool highly for 99% of users looking for a better way to manage their cloud spend.

Spot by NetApp

Cloudability has more calculated fields for the CUR information, simplifying the reporting process. The performance of the tool for dashboarding and reporting is much faster as well as far more flexible. Being able to easily create reports and surface them to users with a few clicks provides much greater benefits over the dashboarding and reporting within CloudCheckr. CloudCheckr does have a more robust resource inventory reporting system with lots of services and data fields. Cloudy surfaces a great deal more opportunities for rightsizing than CloudCheckr too.

We use Apptio Cloudability to help with cloud cost and usage visibility to educate our users on our use of public cloud. We make optimization decisions such as commitment purchasing and rightsizing. We also use the platform to help with tag remediation. A big use case for us to help understand our services down to the resource ID level and Apptio Cloudability does a great job of querying the data quickly.

Scenario 1: Great for basic cost and usage visibility for single and multitenant environments
Scenario 2: Great for exploring commitment recommendations for AWS EC2, RDS, RedShift and ElastiCache
Scenario 3: Excellent for one-to-many dashboard/views segmentation

Forecasting could use improvement, not the most advanced forecasting with any ability for users to input known variables

Spot by NetApp and CloudHealth by VMware

We found that Apptio Cloudability fit our use cases from reporting to dashboards from the visibility point of view. We really liked the Views functionality which made it easy to customize different business and account segments. We selected this because our users were familiar with the Apptio Cloudability platform and found the Apptio Cloudability team were very helpful to work with to get us up and running.

Cloudability is used to analyze consumption and usage of AWS Cloud Services. As we scale our services and customer-base, there was a pressing need to reign in COGS. Cloudability is used to report, identify, and execute on the reduction and optimization of our Cloud Infrastructure across our entire AWS portfolio.

Cloudability is best suited for small to medium sized cloud operations. It excels at rapid creation of dashboards. It seems to become less efficient when the user is a highly experienced FinOps engineer. Competitor products offer some features that make gathering this information faster.

Real-time cost reporting analytics

Cloudability is great for understanding AWS EDP's and getting that information baked in to your costs as it can be extremely confusing otherwise. The 'real-time' data reported through the tool is also extremely useful. I do not have much experience with advanced features as we do not need to use them, but I assume the rightsizing and utilization data is helpful.

CloudHealth by VMware

We were already using Cloudability and at the time it was cheaper.

Apptio Cloudability provides a user friendly way for Technology and Finance to align on cloud spend. We are using it for creating savings report and get helps getting the rightsizing recommendations.

Clouability is well suited for getting actual cloud usage, cloud forecasts and dashboards. Some of the rightsizing recommendations are less appropriate.

Gives us more insights to investigate the cost increase and achieve savings.

We want to optimize our cloud consumption. This allow us a full visibility on our multiple cloud provider usage.

Some engineers saw their consumption increase, they were able to track easily which service was causing this increase and deep dive on it