# Best Cloud Management Platforms *By [Rachana Hasyagar](https://research.g2.com/insights/author/rachana-hasyagar)* Cloud management platforms (CMPs) are toolsets that help companies monitor and control cloud environments, resources, and services. These solutions manage two or more dynamic cloud environments—private, public, multi, or hybrid cloud. CMPs provide insights into and control over a variety of cloud-related functions, such as optimization, orchestration, security, monitoring, and costs. IT administrators, security analysts, server engineers, and others can leverage cloud resources effectively due to the diversity of available insights. Cloud management platforms offer the administrative visibility and capability of [cloud cost management software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-cost-management), [cloud infrastructure monitoring software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-infrastructure-monitoring), [cloud infrastructure automation software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-infrastructure-automation), and more. They also include open-source software modules that provide a framework to create and manage both public and private cloud infrastructure. CMPs are designed to integrate with a variety of [infrastructure as a service (IaaS)](https://www.g2.com/categories/infrastructure-as-a-service-iaas) offerings as well. To qualify for inclusion in the Cloud Management Platforms category, a product must: - Monitor and optimize cloud computing resources in multi-cloud environments - Provide self-service capabilities, analytics, and insights into organization consumption patterns within cloud deployments - Provide managerial capabilities over cloud functions and security ## Best Cloud Management Platforms At A Glance - **Leader:** [Google Compute Engine](https://www.g2.com/products/google-compute-engine/reviews) - **Highest Performer:** [CloudKeeper](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudkeeper/reviews) - **Easiest to Use:** [CloudKeeper](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudkeeper/reviews) - **Top Trending:** [CloudKeeper](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudkeeper/reviews) - **Best Free Software:** [Ubuntu](https://www.g2.com/products/ubuntu/reviews) --- **Sponsored** ### UpCloud UpCloud is European cloud service provider. Everything from Public Cloud to Private Cloud to Managed Kubernetes & Databases. 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[Google Compute Engine](https://www.g2.com/products/google-compute-engine/reviews) Compute Engine is Google's infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform for organizations to create and run cloud-based virtual machines. **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 877 **User Satisfaction Scores:** - **Cloud Optimization:** 8.8/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10) - **Cloud Orchestration:** 8.7/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10) - **Quality of Support:** 8.4/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) - **Cloud Resource Management:** 8.7/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [Google](https://www.g2.com/sellers/google) - **Year Founded:** 1998 - **HQ Location:** Mountain View, CA - **Twitter:** @google (31,840,340 Twitter followers) - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/1441/ (336,169 employees on LinkedIn®) - **Ownership:** NASDAQ:GOOG **Reviewer Demographics:** - **Who Uses This:** Software Engineer, Data Engineer - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Computer Software - **Company Size:** 35% Small-Business, 34% Enterprise #### Pros & Cons **Pros:** - Ease of Use (76 reviews) - Scalability (69 reviews) - Virtual Machines (64 reviews) - Features (58 reviews) - Google Cloud Platform (54 reviews) **Cons:** - Pricing Issues (49 reviews) - Expensive (45 reviews) - Cost Management (33 reviews) - Complexity (30 reviews) - Learning Difficulty (27 reviews) ### 2. [Ubuntu](https://www.g2.com/products/ubuntu/reviews) Ubuntu is the Linux OS that’s made for everyone. Harness the freedom and creativity of open source, from laptops and workstations to servers and IoT devices Published by Canonical, Ubuntu brings you the best of open source, backed by enterprise-grade assurance. Ubuntu delivers a unified and stable experience. Ubuntu serves as an interoperable platform, from the desktop to the edge. Wherever you innovate, you can expect high-performance and the same rich tooling ecosystem. Through community and partnership, we ensure that Ubuntu is always at the cutting-edge. Open source contributors work to ensure that the latest applications, tools and libraries have a home in the Ubuntu ecosystem. Our hardware partners, such as Dell, Lenovo, HP, IBM and NVIDIA, work with us to certify Ubuntu out-of-the-box on the latest boards, devices and chipsets, through a series of over 500 OS compatibility tests per device. When the time comes to scale up, Ubuntu provides integrations to make device governance manageable. Enforce strict identity management protocols with support for Microsoft Active Directory, Entra ID and Google Cloud platform, through Ubuntu’s AuthD broker. Ubuntu’s regular release cadence empowers you to plan ahead with confidence. Across your stack, Ubuntu LTS (long-term support) releases receive 5 years of patching and maintenance as standard. Additional enterprise-grade support is delivered through Ubuntu Pro - Canonical’s comprehensive subscription for open source security. Ubuntu Pro expands security patching and maintenance for up to 12 years and includes tooling for hardening and compliance, enabling you to stay ahead of CVEs, minimize downtime and meet your regulatory requirements. This includes support for frameworks such as FIPS, DISA STIG, NIST and the Cyber Resilience Act. **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 2,285 **User Satisfaction Scores:** - **Cloud Optimization:** 8.8/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10) - **Cloud Orchestration:** 8.7/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10) - **Quality of Support:** 8.3/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) - **Cloud Resource Management:** 8.6/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [Canonical Ltd.](https://www.g2.com/sellers/canonical-ltd) - **Year Founded:** 2004 - **HQ Location:** London - **Twitter:** @Canonical (109,157 Twitter followers) - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/234280/ (1,893 employees on LinkedIn®) **Reviewer Demographics:** - **Who Uses This:** Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Computer Software - **Company Size:** 47% Small-Business, 33% Mid-Market #### Pros & Cons **Pros:** - Ease of Use (337 reviews) - Linux/Ubuntu OS (299 reviews) - Open Source (213 reviews) - User Interface (190 reviews) - User-Friendly (185 reviews) **Cons:** - Compatibility Issues (141 reviews) - Driver Issues (104 reviews) - Limited Software (104 reviews) - Usage Difficulty (91 reviews) - Performance Issues (80 reviews) ### 3. [Flexera One](https://www.g2.com/products/flexera-one/reviews) Flexera One is a SaaS-based IT management solution designed with and for organizations like yours with highly complex hybrid environments. With Flexera One, you can visualize your entire estate and make data-driven decisions from on-premise to SaaS to the cloud. IT Visibility Flexera One’s IT Visibility solution delivers the most comprehensive and clear view of your IT estate. Discovery and normalization—gain consistent, reliable data and take control of assets to draw valuable insights across software, hardware, SaaS and cloud. Data enrichment—enhance your IT inventory data with market intelligence that improves your decision-making abilities, via Technopedia—the largest and most trusted IT asset information source in the world. Unified data visualization—simplify the view of your environment with clear understanding and analytic that provide context for business initiatives spanning your entire IT estate. IT Asset Management Flexera One’s IT asset management (ITAM) starts with knowing what you have in your IT ecosystem—across hardware, software, SaaS, cloud, containers, clusters and virtual technologies. Optimized for today’s digital business, find the evidence required to determine license consumption, such as IBM sub-capacity requirements. Software asset management— Flexera One is the only SAM solution to solve the exponentiality of licensing with depth, breadth, algorithms and automation required to truly create a trusted and accurate license position. Hardware asset management— manage the hardware you own or lease, no matter where it is. Make critical hardware lifecycle decisions to support user productivity, business continuity and make the most of your hardware investments. SaaS management— get a current and complete picture of SaaS usage to support your business stakeholders while optimizing SaaS spend with all your vendors. Take action by discovering shadow SaaS, removing redundant applications and optimizing subscriptions based on actual usage automatically. Software request and reharvest— proactively reduce the sprawl and provide end users with a catalog of approved software, SaaS and cloud instances–helping you get them within guard rails while enabling the business to be agile and innovative. Reclaim unused technology to avoid future costs. Integrate with ITSM providers so you can meet users where they are and provide a seamless end-user experience. Cloud Cost Optimization Flexera One offers a unique approach to cloud cost optimization that enables cloud governance teams to work collaboratively with business units and cloud resource owners to optimize spend. With Flexera One, you get a comprehensive set of cloud cost optimization capabilities designed to easily reduce costs across your entire cloud environment. Cloud Cost Management— Get visibility into cloud usage and costs for all your cloud accounts. You can evaluate and report on your most cost-effective regions and instance sizes, and dive deep into public and private cloud costs by application, category, business unit, cost center, department or team. You also can allocate costs for chargeback and showback with complete backup and justification. Cloud Governance— Flexera One offers a powerful policies engine that enables your cloud governance teams to manage and control hybrid cloud use with out-of-the-box and custom policies to automate governance of costs, operations, security and compliance. Cloud Migration and Modernization Successful IT modernization requires proper analysis, prioritization and planning. Flexera One’s Cloud Migration and Modernization provides the actionable intelligence you need to optimize your cloud modernization and migration—no matter where you are on your cloud journey. Cloud Migration Planning— Flexera one gives you the actionable intelligence needed to optimize your on-premises to cloud migration journey from start to finish with full context visibility into business services. Cloud Cost Assessment — Flexera One provides comprehensive workload assessments to show you which cloud type, provider, custom instance choice, buying type and resource provisioning are best for your workload, budget and performance requirements—all to optimize your cloud cost savings. Workload Placement — Cloud migration and modernization provides comprehensive workload assessments for full visibility into your current workloads, so you can prioritize and identify which providers are best for your performance requirements to ensure successful migration of workloads to the cloud. **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 117 **User Satisfaction Scores:** - **Cloud Optimization:** 8.2/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10) - **Cloud Orchestration:** 8.1/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10) - **Quality of Support:** 8.1/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) - **Cloud Resource Management:** 8.2/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [Flexera](https://www.g2.com/sellers/flexera) - **Year Founded:** 2008 - **HQ Location:** Itasca, IL - **Twitter:** @flexera (4,725 Twitter followers) - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/574962/ (2,045 employees on LinkedIn®) **Reviewer Demographics:** - **Who Uses This:** Analyst, Software Engineer - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Computer Software - **Company Size:** 74% Enterprise, 16% Mid-Market #### Pros & Cons **Pros:** - Ease of Use (54 reviews) - Features (47 reviews) - Integrations (37 reviews) - Product Quality (36 reviews) - Visibility (35 reviews) **Cons:** - Complexity (37 reviews) - Difficult Learning (35 reviews) - Learning Curve (31 reviews) - Complex Setup (26 reviews) - Difficult Setup (23 reviews) ### 4. [SAP Business Data Cloud](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-business-data-cloud/reviews) SAP Business Data Cloud is a fully managed software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that unifies and governs SAP data and connects with third-party data. As an evolution of the company's data, planning, and analytics solutions, SAP Business Data Cloud brings together SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP Business Warehouse with a unified experience that delivers insights across all lines of business. In addition, SAP Databricks is natively available in Business Data Cloud - bringing the power of Databricks Data Intelligence Platform capabilities to the product. SAP Business Data Cloud connects data by leveraging business data fabric principles, making it easier to discover, share, govern, and model this data. It includes SAP Databricks as a first-party data service. The platform combines prebuilt applications and data products across all lines of business. It provides fully managed, curated data products across all lines of business and eliminate the costs of data extracts. Users can build on SAP’s curated data products with their domain expertise, and deliver Intelligent Applications through the Business Data Cloud ecosystem. These intelligent applications are adaptive, AI-powered applications that learn from your data, understand business context, and act on your behalf to transform business outcomes. **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 65 **User Satisfaction Scores:** - **Cloud Optimization:** 8.9/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10) - **Cloud Orchestration:** 8.5/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10) - **Quality of Support:** 8.3/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) - **Cloud Resource Management:** 8.4/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [SAP](https://www.g2.com/sellers/sap) - **Company Website:** https://www.sap.com/ - **Year Founded:** 1972 - **HQ Location:** Walldorf - **Twitter:** @SAP (297,024 Twitter followers) - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/sap/ (141,341 employees on LinkedIn®) **Reviewer Demographics:** - **Top Industries:** Computer Software, Information Technology and Services - **Company Size:** 36% Enterprise, 29% Small-Business #### Pros & Cons **Pros:** - Ease of Use (32 reviews) - Features (32 reviews) - Integration Capabilities (31 reviews) - Data Discovery (30 reviews) - Integrations (27 reviews) **Cons:** - Complexity (30 reviews) - Difficult Learning (25 reviews) - Integration Issues (25 reviews) - Expensive (23 reviews) - Learning Curve (18 reviews) ### 5. [CloudKeeper](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudkeeper/reviews) CloudKeeper is a comprehensive cloud cost optimization partner that combines the power of group buying & commitments management, expert cloud consulting & support, and an enhanced visibility & usage optimization platform to reduce your cloud cost & help you maximize the value from AWS & Google Cloud. A certified AWS Premier Partner and Google Cloud Partner, CloudKeeper has helped 400+ global companies save an average of 20% on their cloud bills, modernize their cloud set-up and maximize value — all while maintaining flexibility and avoiding any long-term commitments or cost. CloudKeeper’s offerings are tailored to meet the unique needs of different customer segments, and bring highly skilled and experienced cloud professionals to help the customers at every stage of the growth journey. CloudKeeper AZ: - Guaranteed reduction on the entire bill with access to volume-based pricing and hassle-free management of RIs & Savings Plans, without any commitments. CloudKeeper Commit: Zero-touch, AI-based automated system for Reserved Instances (RI) and Savings Plans management offering RI & Savings Plans pricing for on-demand instances and a buy-back guarantee of unused RIs & SPs. CloudKeeper PPA+: Maximizes your AWS EDP benefits with additional discounts, lower annual commit, and discounted prices on AWS Support. CloudKeeper Lens: A cloud cost visibility & analytics platform that provides insights to track, analyze, and optimize your cloud usage. CloudKeeper Tuner: An Automated AWS Usage Optimization & Recommendation Platform that optimizes the performance of your workloads on 50+ AWS services thereby reducing the cost of your infrastructure without compromising on performance. We offer end-to-end cloud services & support, covering everything from consulting, advisory, and implementation to ongoing management and continuous improvement, all at no extra cost! Book a demo:https://www.cloudkeeper.com/contact-us Explore more: https://www.cloudkeeper.com/ **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 267 **User Satisfaction Scores:** - **Cloud Optimization:** 9.4/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10) - **Cloud Orchestration:** 8.8/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10) - **Quality of Support:** 9.6/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) - **Cloud Resource Management:** 9.2/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [CloudKeeper](https://www.g2.com/sellers/cloudkeeper) - **Company Website:** https://cloudkeeper.com - **Year Founded:** 2019 - **HQ Location:** Singapore, Singapore - **Twitter:** @cloud_keeper (120 Twitter followers) - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloudkeeper/ (354 employees on LinkedIn®) **Reviewer Demographics:** - **Who Uses This:** CTO, DevOps Engineer - **Top Industries:** Computer Software, Information Technology and Services - **Company Size:** 66% Mid-Market, 23% Small-Business #### Pros & Cons **Pros:** - Customer Support (62 reviews) - Helpful (40 reviews) - Recommendations (36 reviews) - Cost Saving (30 reviews) - Cost Management (28 reviews) **Cons:** - AWS Limitations (7 reviews) - Dashboard Issues (7 reviews) - Missing Features (7 reviews) - Poor Customer Support (6 reviews) - Access Control (4 reviews) ### 6. [Cloudshot](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudshot/reviews) Cloudshot is a patented, visual cloud management platform that helps enterprises gain complete visibility, governance, and control across their cloud and IT spend. Designed for organizations operating in complex environments, Cloudshot delivers multi-cloud management visibility across AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid setups through an intuitive, visual-first approach. Unlike traditional tools that rely on raw data, scripts, or fragmented dashboards, Cloudshot represents cloud environments visually, enabling teams to understand architecture, dependencies, risks, and costs at a glance. This reduces operational complexity and accelerates decision-making across engineering, security, and finance teams. Cloudshot brings DevOps, SecOps, FinOps, and Sustainability together under a single umbrella. DevOps teams benefit from faster environment understanding and infrastructure insights, SecOps teams gain continuous security posture and drift visibility, and FinOps teams receive accurate, allocation-ready cost and optimization data. Sustainability is natively built into the platform, helping organizations optimize costs while reducing environmental impact. Cloudshot aligns closely with the FinOps Foundation framework and is an official FOCUS-compatible tool, supporting the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS). This ensures standardized, portable, and provider-agnostic cost and usage data across cloud platforms, enabling enterprises to scale FinOps practices with confidence and consistency. Beyond cloud infrastructure, Cloudshot provides a unified IT spend dashboard that consolidates multi-cloud costs, cloud marketplace usage, SaaS spend, and shared IT services into a single, consistent view. This enables leadership teams to understand true technology spend, improve accountability, and align IT investments with business outcomes. Enterprise customers using Cloudshot typically achieve 10% to 35% savings on their cloud spend through continuous optimization, waste elimination, and improved governance. By combining patented technology, visual cloud management, and FOCUS-aligned spend visibility, Cloudshot enables enterprises to move from reactive cost control to proactive, strategic management of their IT ecosystem. **Average Rating:** 4.9/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 65 **User Satisfaction Scores:** - **Cloud Optimization:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10) - **Cloud Orchestration:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10) - **Quality of Support:** 9.4/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) - **Cloud Resource Management:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [Cloudshot](https://www.g2.com/sellers/cloudshot) - **Year Founded:** 2023 - **HQ Location:** Pune, IN - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloudshot-io/ (4 employees on LinkedIn®) **Reviewer Demographics:** - **Who Uses This:** Cloud Architect, DevOps Engineer - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services - **Company Size:** 125% Enterprise, 22% Mid-Market #### Pros & Cons **Pros:** - Cloud Services (51 reviews) - Ease of Use (41 reviews) - Cloud Management (34 reviews) - Features (24 reviews) - Cost Optimization (22 reviews) **Cons:** - Missing Features (4 reviews) - Difficult Learning (3 reviews) - Steep Learning Curve (3 reviews) - Complex Configuration (2 reviews) - Difficult Setup (2 reviews) ### 7. [IBM Turbonomic](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-turbonomic/reviews) IBM Turbonomic is a real-time application resource management platform designed to help users optimize and manage resources across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This innovative solution continuously analyzes application performance and resource utilization, automating critical resourcing decisions to ensure optimal application performance while minimizing costs associated with cloud and infrastructure resources. IBM Turbonomic addresses the challenges of managing complex, dynamic environments. As organizations increasingly adopt hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, the need for effective resource management becomes paramount. Turbonomic provides a comprehensive approach to performance management by analyzing the entire technology stack, identifying inefficiencies, and uncovering dependencies that can impact application performance. This proactive management capability allows organizations to maintain high service levels while controlling costs. One of the key features of IBM Turbonomic is its ability to continuously adjust application resources in real time. By monitoring resource utilization and application performance, Turbonomic prevents performance degradation and overprovisioning. This dynamic adjustment ensures that applications receive the necessary resources when needed, which is crucial for maintaining optimal performance levels. Additionally, the platform automates resource decisions such as scaling and placement, allowing organizations to focus on strategic initiatives rather than manual resource management tasks. Turbonomic customers report an average 33% reduction in cloud and infrastructure waste without impacting application performance, and return-on-investment of 471% over three years. IBM Turbonomic is also available on AWS Marketplace. By leveraging Turbonomic, businesses can ensure that their applications run smoothly, resources are utilized effectively, and costs are kept in check, all while maintaining a focus on innovation and growth. For further information, please visit www.ibm.com/products/turbonomic **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 287 **User Satisfaction Scores:** - **Cloud Optimization:** 8.5/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10) - **Cloud Orchestration:** 8.4/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10) - **Quality of Support:** 8.9/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) - **Cloud Resource Management:** 8.7/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [IBM](https://www.g2.com/sellers/ibm) - **Company Website:** https://www.ibm.com/us-en - **Year Founded:** 1911 - **HQ Location:** Armonk, NY - **Twitter:** @IBM (708,000 Twitter followers) - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/1009/ (324,553 employees on LinkedIn®) **Reviewer Demographics:** - **Who Uses This:** Software Engineer, System Engineer - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Computer Software - **Company Size:** 42% Enterprise, 32% Mid-Market #### Pros & Cons **Pros:** - Cost Optimization (41 reviews) - Ease of Use (39 reviews) - Automation (38 reviews) - Performance (31 reviews) - Real-time Monitoring (29 reviews) **Cons:** - Complexity (32 reviews) - Learning Curve (30 reviews) - Complex Configuration (26 reviews) - Difficult Learning (25 reviews) - Difficult Setup (25 reviews) ### 8. [Google Cloud Trace](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-trace/reviews) Find performance bottlenecks in production **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 64 **User Satisfaction Scores:** - **Quality of Support:** 8.1/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [Google](https://www.g2.com/sellers/google) - **Year Founded:** 1998 - **HQ Location:** Mountain View, CA - **Twitter:** @google (31,840,340 Twitter followers) - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/1441/ (336,169 employees on LinkedIn®) - **Ownership:** NASDAQ:GOOG **Reviewer Demographics:** - **Who Uses This:** Software Engineer - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Computer Software - **Company Size:** 37% Small-Business, 34% Mid-Market #### Pros & Cons **Pros:** - Customer Support (1 reviews) - Ease of Use (1 reviews) - Easy Access (1 reviews) - Features (1 reviews) - Implementation Ease (1 reviews) ### 9. [Rubrik](https://www.g2.com/products/rubrik/reviews) Rubrik is the leading cyber resilience and data protection company with a mission to secure the world’s data. Rubrik pioneered Zero Trust Data SecurityTM to help organizations achieve business resilience against cyberattacks, malicious insiders, and operational disruptions. Rubrik Security Cloud, built with a Zero Trust design and powered by machine learning, delivers complete cyber resilience in a single platform across enterprise, cloud, and SaaS. Rubrik’s platform automates data policy management and enforcement, safeguards sensitive data, delivers data threat analytics and response, and orchestrates rapid cyber and operational recovery. **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 142 **User Satisfaction Scores:** - **Cloud Optimization:** 9.0/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10) - **Cloud Orchestration:** 9.0/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10) - **Quality of Support:** 8.9/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) - **Cloud Resource Management:** 8.5/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [Rubrik](https://www.g2.com/sellers/rubrik) - **Company Website:** https://www.rubrik.com - **Year Founded:** 2014 - **HQ Location:** Palo Alto, California - **Twitter:** @rubrikInc (43,801 Twitter followers) - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/4840301/ (4,969 employees on LinkedIn®) **Reviewer Demographics:** - **Who Uses This:** System Administrator - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Higher Education - **Company Size:** 41% Enterprise, 41% Mid-Market #### Pros & Cons **Pros:** - Ease of Use (49 reviews) - Backup Solutions (32 reviews) - Reliability (28 reviews) - Backup Efficiency (26 reviews) - User Interface (26 reviews) **Cons:** - Expensive (17 reviews) - Limited Features (11 reviews) - Complexity (8 reviews) - Cost Management (8 reviews) - Missing Features (8 reviews) ### 10. [AWS Compute Optimizer](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-compute-optimizer/reviews) AWS Compute Optimizer is a service that leverages machine learning to analyze the configuration and utilization metrics of your AWS resources, such as Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon EBS volumes, AWS Lambda functions, and Amazon ECS services on Fargate. It provides actionable recommendations to help you rightsize your resources, enhancing performance and reducing costs by up to 25%. By evaluating your workload patterns, Compute Optimizer identifies under-provisioned or over-provisioned resources and suggests optimal configurations to meet your performance and capacity requirements. Key Features and Functionality: - Rightsizing Recommendations: Offers tailored suggestions to adjust resource sizes based on your specific workload preferences, ensuring optimal performance and cost-efficiency. - Performance Issue Resolution: Identifies under-provisioned resources and provides recommendations to address potential performance bottlenecks. - Enhanced Savings with Memory Metrics: By enabling Amazon CloudWatch metrics, Compute Optimizer increases visibility into memory utilization, leading to more accurate recommendations and potential cost savings. - License Optimization: Provides automated recommendations to optimize licensing costs for commercial software, such as Microsoft SQL Server, by suggesting appropriate licensing options. - Idle Resource Management: Detects and recommends the cleanup of unused resources, helping to reduce unnecessary cloud spending. Primary Value and Problem Solved: AWS Compute Optimizer addresses the challenge of balancing performance and cost in cloud resource management. By analyzing historical utilization data and applying machine learning algorithms, it delivers personalized recommendations that help users: - Reduce Costs: Identify and eliminate over-provisioned resources, leading to significant cost savings. - Enhance Performance: Resolve performance issues by right-sizing under-provisioned resources to meet workload demands. - Simplify Resource Management: Automate the analysis of resource utilization, reducing the need for manual monitoring and adjustments. In essence, AWS Compute Optimizer empowers users to make informed decisions about their AWS resource configurations, ensuring optimal performance while minimizing costs. **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 16 **User Satisfaction Scores:** - **Cloud Optimization:** 9.2/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10) - **Cloud Orchestration:** 8.9/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10) - **Quality of Support:** 8.8/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) - **Cloud Resource Management:** 9.3/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://www.g2.com/sellers/amazon-web-services-aws-3e93cc28-2e9b-4961-b258-c6ce0feec7dd) - **Year Founded:** 2006 - **HQ Location:** Seattle, WA - **Twitter:** @awscloud (2,220,862 Twitter followers) - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/amazon-web-services/ (156,424 employees on LinkedIn®) - **Ownership:** NASDAQ: AMZN **Reviewer Demographics:** - **Company Size:** 50% Small-Business, 38% Mid-Market #### Pros & Cons **Pros:** - Dashboards (1 reviews) - Ease of Use (1 reviews) - Recommendations (1 reviews) ### 11. [Hyperglance](https://www.g2.com/products/hyperglance/reviews) Discover why leading cloud professionals worldwide choose Hyperglance as their cloud management platform. Optimize Costs & Reduce Your Bill... \* Save up to 30% using cost-saving recommendations, from wastage to right-sizing and RIs \* Explore & analyze your costs, over time, in astonishing detail \* Monitor your costs in real-time, and create a range of alerts \* Identify trends and anomalies, explore cost heatmaps, and forecast your bill \* Create custom billing reports that can be automatically emailed - perfect for chargebacks & showbacks \* Optimize spend in real-time using customizable no-code automation Visualize Your Entire Cloud... \* Utilize customizable dashboards pre-built to manage your multi-cloud architecture \* Explore enlightening real-time interactive architecture diagrams with metadata overlaid \* Search, filter and export your aggregated cloud inventory \* Automatically generate and export documentation \* Scales to any size Stay Secure & Compliant... \* Continuously scan your cloud inventory, looking for policy breaches, misconfiguration, and vulnerabilities \* Built-in monitoring complies with key frameworks, including AWS Well-Architected, NIST, CIS, HIPAA, PCI DSS & FedRAMP \* Create, customize and run as many rules as you like, as often as you like \* Trigger alerts, and remediate issues in real-time using codeless automations \* View issues, in context, in powerful interactive architecture diagrams Automate To Save Time & Reduce Risk... \* Trigger and customize rules using metadata, cost, metrics, alarms, and more \* Use automations to remediate issues as they occur \* Enforce organizational policies and implement a resource-tagging strategy Plus... \* Multi-cloud, AWS, GovCloud, Azure, GCP & Kubernetes support \* Agentless & secure deployment, self-hosted on your VM \* Tag normalization/grouping for worry-free tagging \* SAML support and RESTful API access as standard \* Unlimited users at no extra cost **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 68 **User Satisfaction Scores:** - **Cloud Optimization:** 9.0/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10) - **Cloud Orchestration:** 8.7/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10) - **Quality of Support:** 8.9/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) - **Cloud Resource Management:** 8.9/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [Hyperglance Ltd.](https://www.g2.com/sellers/hyperglance-ltd) - **Year Founded:** 2011 - **HQ Location:** London, UK - **Twitter:** @hyperglance (327 Twitter followers) - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/hyperglance/ (10 employees on LinkedIn®) **Reviewer Demographics:** - **Who Uses This:** DevOps Engineer - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Computer Software - **Company Size:** 43% Small-Business, 35% Mid-Market #### Pros & Cons **Pros:** - Cloud Services (16 reviews) - Features (16 reviews) - Visualization (14 reviews) - Cloud Management (12 reviews) - Security (12 reviews) **Cons:** - Expensive (14 reviews) - User Interface (12 reviews) - Complexity (10 reviews) - Pricing Issues (9 reviews) - Slow Performance (9 reviews) ### 12. [DoiT Cloud Intelligence](https://www.g2.com/products/doit-cloud-intelligence/reviews) DoiT Cloud Intelligence is the only intent-aware FinOps platform that goes beyond cost optimization to drive reliability, performance, and security – turning endless "good ideas" into real, implemented solutions at scale – ensuring teams are 10X more likely to achieve business outcomes than with any other solution. **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 78 **User Satisfaction Scores:** - **Cloud Optimization:** 8.1/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10) - **Cloud Orchestration:** 6.8/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10) - **Quality of Support:** 8.8/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) - **Cloud Resource Management:** 7.4/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [DoiT](https://www.g2.com/sellers/doit-84d96d0d-c750-46ed-8237-80c355abe4f0) - **Year Founded:** 2011 - **HQ Location:** Santa Clara, US - **Twitter:** @doitint (811 Twitter followers) - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/doitintl/ (679 employees on LinkedIn®) **Reviewer Demographics:** - **Top Industries:** Computer Software, Information Technology and Services - **Company Size:** 57% Mid-Market, 41% Small-Business #### Pros & Cons **Pros:** - Customer Support (10 reviews) - Team Expertise (7 reviews) - Helpful (6 reviews) - Cloud Management (5 reviews) - Features (5 reviews) **Cons:** - Cost Management (3 reviews) - Expensive (2 reviews) - Billing Issues (1 reviews) - Complexity (1 reviews) - Difficult Learning (1 reviews) ### 13. [PointFive](https://www.g2.com/products/pointfive-2024-08-28/reviews) PointFive is the infrastructure efficiency platform that detects deep waste and remediates autonomously — so your engineers can ship, not optimize. Traditional tools show you what you spend. PointFive shows you what you're wasting — and fixes it. How we're different: 🔍 DeepWaste™ Detection — 400+ detection types across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Snowflake, and Databricks. We find waste that other tools miss — idle resources, over-provisioned infrastructure, orphaned storage, and inefficient AI workloads. 🧠 InfraFabric — Our proprietary infrastructure graph maps dependencies, ownership, and context across your entire cloud estate. No agents. No scripts. Just deep visibility. ⚡ Agentic Remediation — Don't just get recommendations. PointFive autonomously resolves waste with safe, validated actions — turning insights into realized savings. Proven at scale: • $50M+ in savings identified • 1,200%+ customer ROI • 10 days to value (Nubank case study) Enterprise teams at companies like Nubank, Elastic, and Blackhawk Network trust PointFive to continuously optimize their cloud infrastructure — without slowing down engineering. **Average Rating:** 4.9/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 32 **User Satisfaction Scores:** - **Cloud Optimization:** 9.4/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10) - **Cloud Orchestration:** 7.5/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10) - **Quality of Support:** 9.8/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) - **Cloud Resource Management:** 8.6/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [PointFive](https://www.g2.com/sellers/pointfive) - **Company Website:** https://www.pointfive.co/ - **HQ Location:** New York City, US - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/pointfive-us/ (113 employees on LinkedIn®) **Reviewer Demographics:** - **Top Industries:** Financial Services, Computer Software - **Company Size:** 53% Enterprise, 38% Mid-Market #### Pros & Cons **Pros:** - Recommendations (14 reviews) - Savings (11 reviews) - Cost Reduction (9 reviews) - Cost Saving (9 reviews) - Ease of Use (9 reviews) **Cons:** - User Interface (3 reviews) - Confusion (2 reviews) - Difficulty (2 reviews) - Inadequate Reporting (2 reviews) - Insufficient Documentation (2 reviews) ### 14. [Azure Arc](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-arc/reviews) For customers who want to simplify complex and distributed environments across on-premises, edge and multicloud, Azure Arc enables deployment of Azure services anywhere and extends Azure management to any infrastructure. **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 27 **User Satisfaction Scores:** - **Cloud Optimization:** 8.8/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10) - **Cloud Orchestration:** 9.0/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10) - **Quality of Support:** 8.8/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) - **Cloud Resource Management:** 9.2/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [Microsoft](https://www.g2.com/sellers/microsoft) - **Year Founded:** 1975 - **HQ Location:** Redmond, Washington - **Twitter:** @microsoft (13,090,464 Twitter followers) - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft/ (227,697 employees on LinkedIn®) - **Ownership:** MSFT **Reviewer Demographics:** - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services - **Company Size:** 38% Mid-Market, 28% Enterprise ### 15. [IBM Cloudability](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-cloudability/reviews) IBM Cloudability is built to support the organizational adoption of FinOps—the cultural practice and operational process of bringing financial accountability to the scalable, variable, and distributed nature of cloud and related costs. Its enterprise-grade FinOps features enable IT, finance, and business teams to optimize cloud, AI and Kubernetes costs and communicate the business value of these investments. Cloudability normalizes and structures billing and usage data from across public cloud ecosystems. Its robust set of capabilities enable teams to: • Fully allocate cloud spend, including containers and AI related costs, and support charges—enabling chargeback across the business and continuous improvements to cloud unit economics • Estimate workload costs, build budgets and create driver-based forecasts that surface variance details while tracking spend to plan • Automatically optimize cloud costs via industry-leading rightsizing and commitment recommendations, allowing you to reduce operating expenses and fund future innovation investments • Make decisions with speed and confidence, powered by team ownership of cloud spend • Allocate shared costs, like specialized technology, labor and vendors, to extend FinOps and accountability to the total cost of running cloud • Support FinOps organizations in Federal agencies via FedRAMP authorized IBM Cloudability for US Federal • Enable Managed Services Providers to ingest, structure, and customize billing data via IBM Cloudability MSP Cloudability enables practitioners with the capabilities they need to drive FinOps forward— with financial accountability, optimized cloud spend and a roadmap for FinOps maturity. With over 10 years of accumulated expertise and innovation, Cloudability is the category pioneer and market leader dedicated to helping you excel at FinOps. **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 199 **User Satisfaction Scores:** - **Cloud Optimization:** 8.7/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10) - **Cloud Orchestration:** 9.0/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10) - **Quality of Support:** 8.2/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) - **Cloud Resource Management:** 8.9/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [Apptio, an IBM Company](https://www.g2.com/sellers/apptio-an-ibm-company) - **Company Website:** https://www.apptio.com/ - **Year Founded:** 1996 - **HQ Location:** Bellevue, WA - **Twitter:** @Apptio (9,669 Twitter followers) - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/apptio/ (1,330 employees on LinkedIn®) **Reviewer Demographics:** - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Financial Services - **Company Size:** 62% Enterprise, 20% Mid-Market #### Pros & Cons **Pros:** - Ease of Use (44 reviews) - Cost Management (37 reviews) - Insights (33 reviews) - Reporting (33 reviews) - Cost Tracking (30 reviews) **Cons:** - Missing Features (20 reviews) - Cost Management (15 reviews) - Complexity (14 reviews) - Inadequate Reporting (12 reviews) - Integration Issues (12 reviews) ### 16. [Azure Advisor](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-advisor/reviews) Azure Advisor is a free, personalized cloud consultant designed to help organizations optimize their Azure deployments. By analyzing resource configurations and usage telemetry, it provides actionable recommendations to enhance reliability, security, operational excellence, performance, and cost efficiency. This proactive guidance enables users to maximize the value of their Azure investments while adhering to best practices. Key Features and Functionality: - Comprehensive Recommendations: Advisor offers tailored suggestions across five critical areas: reliability, security, performance, operational excellence, and cost. - Customizable Targeting: Users can configure Advisor to focus on specific subscriptions and resource groups, ensuring that recommendations are relevant to their most critical assets. - Multiple Access Points: Advisor is accessible through the Azure portal, Azure Command Line Interface (CLI), and the Advisor API, providing flexibility in how users interact with the service. - Alert Notifications: The service can be set up to send alerts about new recommendations, keeping users informed about potential optimizations. - Advisor Score: This feature assesses how well workloads align with Azure best practices, offering a centralized dashboard to monitor and track optimization progress. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Azure Advisor addresses the challenge of efficiently managing and optimizing cloud resources by providing personalized, actionable insights. It helps organizations reduce costs, enhance security, improve performance, and ensure the reliability of their applications. By consolidating best practices and recommendations into a single platform, Advisor simplifies the optimization process, enabling users to make informed decisions and maintain well-architected cloud environments. **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 13 **User Satisfaction Scores:** - **Cloud Optimization:** 8.3/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10) - **Cloud Orchestration:** 8.3/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10) - **Quality of Support:** 9.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) - **Cloud Resource Management:** 8.3/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [Microsoft](https://www.g2.com/sellers/microsoft) - **Year Founded:** 1975 - **HQ Location:** Redmond, Washington - **Twitter:** @microsoft (13,090,464 Twitter followers) - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft/ (227,697 employees on LinkedIn®) - **Ownership:** MSFT **Reviewer Demographics:** - **Company Size:** 47% Enterprise, 33% Mid-Market #### Pros & Cons **Pros:** - Cloud Services (1 reviews) - Efficiency (1 reviews) - Free Services (1 reviews) - Performance (1 reviews) - Savings (1 reviews) **Cons:** - Insufficient Guidance (1 reviews) - Limited Automation (1 reviews) - Limited Customization (1 reviews) - Limited Visibility (1 reviews) - Update Issues (1 reviews) ### 17. [FortiGate Cloud](https://www.g2.com/products/fortigate-cloud/reviews) FortiGate Cloud is a cloud-based software-as-a-service platform designed to streamline the management, reporting, and analytics of FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls and associated devices. It simplifies network operations by offering centralized configuration management, zero-touch provisioning, and comprehensive visibility into the security posture of small to medium-sized businesses. Key Features and Functionality: - Centralized Management: Provides a unified interface to manage FortiGate devices, FortiSwitches, FortiAPs, and FortiExtenders, allowing for efficient configuration, policy management, and firmware upgrades. - Zero-Touch Provisioning: Enables rapid deployment of devices without manual intervention, reducing setup time and potential configuration errors. - Security Analytics and Reporting: Offers real-time and historical views of network traffic, threats, applications, and system events, with logs stored in the cloud for up to one year. Pre-defined reports assist in compliance and provide actionable insights. - Multi-Tenancy Support: Facilitates management of multiple customers or business units through FortiCloud Organizations, ensuring data separation and privacy compliance. Primary Value and User Solutions: FortiGate Cloud addresses the complexities of network security management by offering a scalable, cloud-based solution that reduces the operational burden on IT teams. It enhances security posture through centralized policy enforcement and comprehensive visibility, enabling businesses to detect and mitigate threats effectively. By simplifying deployment and ongoing maintenance, FortiGate Cloud allows organizations to focus on their core operations while ensuring robust network security. **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 15 **User Satisfaction Scores:** - **Cloud Optimization:** 9.2/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10) - **Cloud Orchestration:** 9.0/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10) - **Quality of Support:** 9.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) - **Cloud Resource Management:** 9.3/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [Fortinet](https://www.g2.com/sellers/fortinet) - **Year Founded:** 2000 - **HQ Location:** Sunnyvale, CA - **Twitter:** @Fortinet (151,247 Twitter followers) - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/6460/ (16,112 employees on LinkedIn®) - **Ownership:** NASDAQ: FTNT **Reviewer Demographics:** - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services - **Company Size:** 67% Mid-Market, 20% Small-Business ### 18. [Utho](https://www.g2.com/products/utho/reviews) Utho, India's leading public cloud provider, empowers businesses to break free from vendor lock-in, slow speed, high cost, and complexity with simple, secure, and reliable cloud solutions. With a decade of experience, we prioritize simplicity, security, and customer-centric support. Utho operates 7+ datacenters, enabling customers to deploy cloud resources with minimal latency. Serving over 22,000 customers, including prominent names such as Exotel, Ameyo, MyOperator, Yatra, Honeywell, Maruti Suzuki, and more, we are committed to transforming your business and elevating you to new heights of success with cutting-edge cloud solutions, reducing cloud costs by 60%. #utho #uthocloud #cloud #cloudcomputing #microhostcloud #microhost **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 172 **User Satisfaction Scores:** - **Cloud Optimization:** 8.9/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10) - **Cloud Orchestration:** 8.5/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10) - **Quality of Support:** 9.3/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) - **Cloud Resource Management:** 9.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [Utho](https://www.g2.com/sellers/utho) - **Year Founded:** 2010 - **HQ Location:** Noida, IN - **Twitter:** @Uthocloud (125 Twitter followers) - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/uthocloud/ (69 employees on LinkedIn®) **Reviewer Demographics:** - **Who Uses This:** CEO, Student - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Computer Software - **Company Size:** 62% Small-Business, 34% Mid-Market #### Pros & Cons **Pros:** - Customer Support (32 reviews) - Ease of Use (31 reviews) - Affordable (24 reviews) - Reliability (16 reviews) - Cost-Effective (14 reviews) **Cons:** - Poor Customer Support (9 reviews) - Limited Customization (4 reviews) - Downtime Issues (3 reviews) - Integration Issues (3 reviews) - Technical Difficulties (3 reviews) ### 19. [Togglr](https://www.g2.com/products/togglr/reviews) Togglr is a unique first-of-its-kind Digital Services Platform for Hybrid Multi-Cloud Management and Deployment. The platform enables users to Cloud Migrate from one Cloud provider to another or from On-Premise to a Cloud Provider. It is a collaborative Cloud system, where Migration, Disaster recovery & Backup, Orchestration and Analytical functionalities are managed and interfaced on a single digital platform. This all-in-one digital Cloud model enables a dynamic digital transformation apart from reducing data loss and downtime. Our seamless Migration system facilitates to Migrate & to Manage Hybrid workload across multiple Clouds or Data Centres. **Average Rating:** 5.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 18 **User Satisfaction Scores:** - **Cloud Optimization:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10) - **Cloud Orchestration:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10) - **Quality of Support:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) - **Cloud Resource Management:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [Togglr Web Services](https://www.g2.com/sellers/togglr-web-services) - **Year Founded:** 2017 - **HQ Location:** Singapore, SG - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/togglrcloud (23 employees on LinkedIn®) **Reviewer Demographics:** - **Company Size:** 72% Small-Business, 39% Mid-Market #### Pros & Cons **Pros:** - Cloud Management (4 reviews) - Ease of Use (4 reviews) - Security (4 reviews) - User Interface (4 reviews) - Customer Support (3 reviews) **Cons:** - Missing Features (2 reviews) - Poor Customer Support (2 reviews) - Complex Configuration (1 reviews) - Complexity (1 reviews) - Difficult Navigation (1 reviews) ### 20. [Cisco Intersight Services](https://www.g2.com/products/cisco-intersight-services/reviews) In an always-on, hyper-distributed world where your teams, tools, infrastructure and apps need to always work in perfect harmony, faster than ever before. Cisco Intersight is a modular cloud operations platform that can bring them together, wherever they are, so you can simplify your hybrid IT world and spend your time on what's important - driving your business forward. Visualize, optimize and orchestrate applications and infrastructure across public cloud and on-premises environments. **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 12 **User Satisfaction Scores:** - **Cloud Optimization:** 8.8/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10) - **Cloud Orchestration:** 8.8/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10) - **Quality of Support:** 9.4/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) - **Cloud Resource Management:** 8.8/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [Cisco](https://www.g2.com/sellers/cisco) - **Year Founded:** 1984 - **HQ Location:** San Jose, CA - **Twitter:** @Cisco (720,884 Twitter followers) - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/cisco/ (95,742 employees on LinkedIn®) - **Ownership:** NASDAQ:CSCO **Reviewer Demographics:** - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services - **Company Size:** 50% Mid-Market, 42% Enterprise ### 21. [Uniskai](https://www.g2.com/products/profisea-labs-uniskai/reviews) Uniskai, named Cloud Project of the Year, is an all-in-one FinOps platform designed to optimize cloud costs and operations for startups, small businesses, and medium-sized enterprises. It provides real-time visibility, cost-saving automation, and full Kubernetes support, simplifying cloud management across multi-cloud environments like AWS, Azure, and GCP.With its comprehensive functionality, Uniskai helps companies streamline operations, reduce expenses, and scale effectively. Key Features and Benefits - All-in-One Solution: Combines cost management, Kubernetes optimization, and multi-cloud resource control in a single platform. - Real-Time Cloud Visibility: An intuitive dashboard to monitor cloud usage and spending, enabling data-driven decisions. - AI-Driven Cost Optimization: Reduces costs by up to 75% with intelligent recommendations for rightsizing, waste elimination, and resource allocation. - Unisave for Cost Savings: Provides commitment-free, risk-free optimization, allowing businesses to achieve significant savings without upfront investments. - Automation Tools: Features like Cloudsitter and Waste Manager automate resource scheduling, waste reduction, and operational workflows. - Enhanced Security: Strengthens cloud operations with tools to address vulnerabilities, ensure compliance, and maintain a secure environment. - Full Kubernetes Support: Offers advanced capabilities to optimize Kubernetes resources for efficient and cost-effective deployments. Primary Use Cases Uniskai supports startups, small businesses, and medium-sized enterprises managing complex cloud environments. It enables them to reduce costs, streamline workflows, and focus on growth, making it ideal for FinOps professionals, CTOs, and DevOps teams. Value to Users Uniskai simplifies cloud and Kubernetes management by providing AI-driven insights and automation. Its all-in-one approach empowers organizations to reduce costs, optimize resources, and drive innovation. **Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 30 **User Satisfaction Scores:** - **Cloud Optimization:** 9.8/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10) - **Cloud Orchestration:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10) - **Quality of Support:** 9.8/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) - **Cloud Resource Management:** 9.8/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [Profisea Labs](https://www.g2.com/sellers/profisea-labs) - **Company Website:** https://profisealabs.com/ - **Year Founded:** 2021 - **HQ Location:** Hod Hasharon, Hasharon - **LinkedIn® Page:** http://www.linkedin.com/company/profisea (60 employees on LinkedIn®) **Reviewer Demographics:** - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Computer Software - **Company Size:** 63% Small-Business, 37% Mid-Market #### Pros & Cons **Pros:** - Cloud Management (3 reviews) - Cost Management (3 reviews) - Cost Optimization (3 reviews) - Ease of Use (3 reviews) - Recommendations (3 reviews) **Cons:** - Compatibility Issues (1 reviews) - Cost Management (1 reviews) - Integration Issues (1 reviews) - Learning Curve (1 reviews) - Limited Customization (1 reviews) ### 22. [Turbo360](https://www.g2.com/products/turbo360/reviews) Turbo360 is an advanced Cloud Management platform designed to help users optimize their Azure environments through significant cost savings and comprehensive infrastructure monitoring. This solution caters specifically to organizations utilizing Azure, providing tools that facilitate effective financial operations (FinOps) and enhance overall resource management. With Turbo360, businesses can achieve substantial annual savings while ensuring their cloud infrastructure runs efficiently and effectively. The platform is particularly beneficial for IT teams, financial analysts, and cloud architects who require a detailed understanding of their Azure spending and resource utilization. By offering advanced cost monitoring and granular analysis, Turbo360 enables users to identify inefficiencies and implement strategic recommendations for resource optimization. This capability is crucial for organizations looking to maximize their return on investment (ROI) in Azure while maintaining control over their cloud expenditures. Turbo360's key features include unparalleled visibility into Azure spending, allowing users to analyze costs across different tenants, teams, and business units. This level of insight is essential for eliminating wasteful spending, as the platform provides actionable recommendations for rightsizing resources, purchasing reserved instances, and implementing auto-pausing of resources during non-business hours. Such features not only contribute to cost reductions but also promote a culture of financial accountability within the organization. In addition to cost management, Turbo360 enhances incident resolution by linking monitoring alerts to specific business units. This integration allows for quicker remediation of issues, as users can access a consolidated report highlighting critical problems across Azure services. By streamlining the troubleshooting process, organizations can reduce incident resolution times by up to 80%, ensuring that their cloud operations remain uninterrupted and efficient. Furthermore, Turbo360 supports end-to-end business tracking by providing context over messages flowing through complex Azure and hybrid integrations. This capability is vital for effectively tracking and addressing critical issues that may arise within the infrastructure. Additionally, the platform offers auto-generated documentation on resource usage, cost, and security, along with editable network diagrams for easy sharing with stakeholders. This feature ensures that all relevant parties have access to accurate information, fostering transparency and informed decision-making within the organization. **Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 61 **User Satisfaction Scores:** - **Cloud Optimization:** 9.0/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10) - **Cloud Orchestration:** 9.0/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10) - **Quality of Support:** 9.4/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) - **Cloud Resource Management:** 8.5/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [Kovai Limited](https://www.g2.com/sellers/kovai-limited) - **Company Website:** https://www.kovai.co/ - **Year Founded:** 2009 - **HQ Location:** London - **Twitter:** @BizTalk360 (1,921 Twitter followers) - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/kovaico/ (333 employees on LinkedIn®) **Reviewer Demographics:** - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Computer Software - **Company Size:** 43% Mid-Market, 34% Small-Business #### Pros & Cons **Pros:** - Customer Support (13 reviews) - Ease of Use (12 reviews) - Monitoring (10 reviews) - Implementation Ease (9 reviews) - Ease of Implementation (8 reviews) **Cons:** - Complexity (4 reviews) - Learning Curve (4 reviews) - Steep Learning Curve (4 reviews) - Difficult Learning (2 reviews) - Expensive (2 reviews) ### 23. [PerfectScale](https://www.g2.com/products/perfectscale/reviews) PerfectScale by DoiT Kubernetes (K8s) Optimization and Governance Platform makes it easy for DevOps, Platform Engineering, and SRE professionals to improve the cost-effectiveness and stability of their complete K8s environment. As the industry's only solution combining AI with production-ready automation, K8s environments are safely and effortlessly right-sized for peak resilience and availability, to eliminate wasted resources and cost, and to minimize carbon emissions. As a Gartner Cool Vendor for Container Management, PerfectScale continuously optimizes every layer of your K8s stack, guaranteeing your environment is always perfectly scalable to meet demand. Key Platform Capabilities: - A unified platform to optimize the cost and performance of your complete environment. - Autonomous container and workload right-sizing (including ephemeral and ML workloads) - Node-level optimization insights (including autoscaling configurations) - Comprehensive cost and performance trend analysis across your complete environment - Customizable alerting that integrates directly into collaboration tools - OOTB integrations with JIRA, Slack, Teams, Data Dog, Grafana, Okta, and many more. PerfectScale is available in a free, no-commitment, 30-day trial. It takes only minutes to deploy and instantly starts cutting K8s costs and boosting performance, all with a minimal footprint on your environment. Get started today at perfectscale.io! 'Scale Kubernetes Responsibly" with PerfectScale! **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 21 **User Satisfaction Scores:** - **Cloud Optimization:** 9.4/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10) - **Cloud Orchestration:** 8.9/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10) - **Quality of Support:** 9.8/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) - **Cloud Resource Management:** 8.9/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [PerfectScale by DoiT](https://www.g2.com/sellers/perfectscale-by-doit) - **Year Founded:** 2021 - **HQ Location:** Raleigh, North Carolina - **Twitter:** @PerfectScale_io (222 Twitter followers) - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/perfectscale/ (54 employees on LinkedIn®) **Reviewer Demographics:** - **Top Industries:** Computer Software - **Company Size:** 71% Mid-Market, 19% Enterprise #### Pros & Cons **Pros:** - Cost Optimization (3 reviews) - Cost Saving (3 reviews) - Performance (3 reviews) - Ease of Use (2 reviews) - Efficiency Improvement (2 reviews) **Cons:** - User Interface (2 reviews) - Dashboard Issues (1 reviews) - Poor UI Design (1 reviews) - UI Improvement (1 reviews) - Update Issues (1 reviews) ### 24. [Kubex](https://www.g2.com/products/kubex/reviews) Kubex is a sophisticated AI-driven analytics solution designed to assist enterprises in optimizing their Kubernetes, AI and cloud infrastructure. This innovative platform focuses on reducing operational costs, enhancing efficiency, and ensuring stability within complex and dynamic environments. **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 25 **User Satisfaction Scores:** - **Cloud Optimization:** 9.6/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10) - **Cloud Orchestration:** 9.7/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10) - **Quality of Support:** 9.6/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) - **Cloud Resource Management:** 9.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [Kubex](https://www.g2.com/sellers/kubex) - **Company Website:** https://kubex.ai/ - **Year Founded:** 2022 - **HQ Location:** Richmond Hill, CA - **Twitter:** @Densify (2,190 Twitter followers) - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/kubex-ai/ (69 employees on LinkedIn®) **Reviewer Demographics:** - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Financial Services - **Company Size:** 67% Enterprise, 26% Mid-Market #### Pros & Cons **Pros:** - Ease of Use (3 reviews) - Cloud Management (2 reviews) - Customer Support (2 reviews) - Insights (2 reviews) - Performance (2 reviews) **Cons:** - Azure Integration (1 reviews) - Compatibility Issues (1 reviews) - Cost Management (1 reviews) - Limited Cloud Integration (1 reviews) - User Interface (1 reviews) ### 25. [Zesty](https://www.g2.com/products/zesty-zesty/reviews) Zesty helps organizations accelerate innovation with its cloud infrastructure optimization platform. Powered by machine learning, Zesty provides FinOps and DevOps teams with prescriptive insights and automation to achieve the ideal utilization of cloud resources and enables CIOs to balance operational excellence and costs. Zesty’s optimization platform helps companies efficiently allocate resources for applications, with solutions for containers, compute, storage, databases, and more, saving time and money. Founded in 2019, Zesty was built with the vision of making the cloud more affordable and accessible while reducing waste. Zesty supports thousands of organizations, helping them get maximum value out of their cloud infrastructure. To learn more, visit https://zesty.co/. **Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 80 **User Satisfaction Scores:** - **Cloud Optimization:** 9.8/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10) - **Cloud Orchestration:** 7.1/10 (Category avg: 8.7/10) - **Quality of Support:** 9.6/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) - **Cloud Resource Management:** 8.3/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10) **Seller Details:** - **Seller:** [Zesty](https://www.g2.com/sellers/zesty) - **Year Founded:** 2019 - **HQ Location:** San Mateo, California - **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/zestyco/about (138 employees on LinkedIn®) **Reviewer Demographics:** - **Top Industries:** Computer Software, Information Technology and Services - **Company Size:** 65% Mid-Market, 28% Small-Business ## Parent Category [IT Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/it-management) ## Related Categories - [Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Providers](https://www.g2.com/categories/infrastructure-as-a-service-iaas) - [Cloud Cost Management Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-cost-management) - [Cloud Compliance Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-compliance) --- ## Buyer Guide ### What You Should Know About Cloud Management Platforms ### What are Cloud Management Platforms? A cloud management platform (CMP) is a set of unified software tools which help companies monitor and control cloud computing resources. While these tools can be deployed by an enterprise exclusively for a public or private cloud arrangement, CMPs commonly focus on the management of hybrid and multi-cloud models to help optimize control of various cloud-based infrastructures. CMPs also include open-source software modules that provide a framework to create and manage both public and private cloud infrastructure. This aids cost management, backup and disaster recovery, and enhancement of performance and security. Cloud management platforms offer the administrative visibility and capability of [cloud cost management software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-cost-management), [cloud infrastructure monitoring software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-infrastructure-monitoring), [cloud infrastructure automation software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-infrastructure-automation), and more. CMPs are designed to integrate with a variety of [infrastructure as a service (IaaS)](https://www.g2.com/categories/infrastructure-as-a-service-iaas) tools as well. #### What Types of Cloud Management Platforms Exist? **Focused platforms** Platforms that offer only one type of cloud problem solving, say, cloud security to protect data, applications, and infrastructure from threats, and automation of tasks to reduce manual intervention, or cost optimization to increase business efficiency. These products will generally focus on a specific task. **Multi-cloud platforms** In multi-cloud infrastructure, cloud assets, software, and applications are distributed across several cloud environments. With a typical multi-cloud architecture involving two or more public and private clouds, a multi-cloud environment aims to eradicate the dependency on any single provider or instance. Multicloud management is the set of tools and procedures that allows a business to monitor and secure applications and workloads across multiple public or private clouds or a combination of both. By offering simplified, centralized management, a multi-cloud management solution allows IT teams to more effectively manage applications and workloads across multiple clouds. **Hybrid cloud and hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) ** Platforms that support hybrid clouds as well as on-premise infrastructure fit into this category. Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) is a software-defined, unified system that combines all the elements of a traditional data center—storage, computing, networking, and management. Hybrid cloud solutions combine a private cloud with one or more public cloud services, with proprietary software enabling communication between each distinct service. Hybrid cloud computing is powerful because it gives businesses greater control over their private data. An organization can store sensitive data on a private cloud or local data center and simultaneously leverage the robust computational resources of a managed public cloud. Due to complexities such as migration of services, compatibility issues between different cloud service providers, etc., in the management of such an infrastructure, these tools rely heavily on custom implementation.  ### What are the Common Features of Cloud Management Platforms? The following are a few essential features that a cloud management platform should have to help organizations gain visibility into their cloud deployments and take necessary actions. **Cost control:** A good cloud management tool should provide insights to the user to help them visualize the utilization and cost of current infrastructure and track cost consumption across all cloud resources. Insights will help the user to reduce overall costs. A cloud management platform is a software solution whose main attribute is a vast and extensive set of APIs that allow it to extract data from every area of the IT infrastructure. The tools should be able to provide cost savings by giving one the capability to hibernate their unutilized resources and provide insights into each service with estimated savings.  **Logs monitoring:** What makes a cloud management tool unique is its ability to integrate monitoring processes by providing logs from all the major resources. CMPs are purpose-built to draw humongous volumes of data from the user’s application stack in the form of automatically generated computer logs. Log files contain information about every event that occurs in the user’s cloud environment. Analyzing those files can yield information about errors, vulnerabilities, compliance, security, and more.  **Compliance:** Cloud compliance is the principle that cloud-delivered systems must be in accordance with the standards their customers require. It ensures that cloud computing services meet the compliance requirements of enterprise customers. Maintaining compliance takes effort on the part of both the cloud service provider and the enterprise; without that effort, the organization's data could be at risk of not adhering to mandatory rules and regulations. **Optimizing the overall workload:** CPM implementation in the IT market makes workflow better, optimizing the best practice and managing the resources to get better outcomes without losing out on either money or time. Features of the cloud management tools are connected internally and work together. This means that the tool can automatically control the infrastructure and make adjustments when necessary. The platform also helps in decision making. It can also play a role in managing and creating policy frameworks. **Billing and metering:** This is another crucial feature provided by a cloud management platform. CPM accounts for an organization’s unique cloud architecture and finds ways to manage billing and chargebacks effectively. Metering refers to the methods and tools used to track the usage of infrastructure and software delivered via the cloud. IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS vendors have a variety of options for metering the usage of the solutions they provide to clients, including per-user metering, per-account metering, and per-transaction metering. ### What are the Benefits of Cloud Management Platforms? **Self-service management:** Most CMP solutions support self-service cloud resource management. Enterprises can provision resources for their cloud environment themselves rather than having a set amount of resources delivered. A CMP can help enterprises determine if they are using the optimal amount of resources for their business needs. That can help in determining the correct amount of resources to request from the cloud provider in the future. **Cloud cost management:** Enterprises want to manage their resource usage to reduce costs. Resources that aren't being used will just be a drain on the company’s finances. By managing operations to ensure that every resource is being used, cloud cost optimization can reduce the wastage of resources.  **Automated management policies:** CMPs deliver automated cloud management policies and tasks to help utilize resources using automatic orchestration. For example, it automates the process of finding spare resources on the network whenever one needs them. Rather than waiting until the IT team discovers wasted resources, the CMP automatically fixes resource usage problems. **Cloud compliance and governance:** Usage of cloud services requires the integration of traditional IT governance best practices, such as compliance and chargebacks. Therefore, to govern the cloud for operational excellence, it is important to implement cloud management tools for compliance, incident, and transparent financial management. By doing this, the IT team will run responsible, compliant operations—with tight fiscal controls and transparency. As a result, an organization can benefit from economies of scale, lower individual usage costs, and centralize infrastructure costs while extending or improving current governance capabilities. ### Who Uses Cloud Management Platforms? **IT industry:** CMPs help IT teams secure and optimize cloud infrastructure, including the applications and data residing on it. Administrators can manage compliance, set up real-time monitoring, and prevent cyberattacks and data breaches. Today organizations have dozens of diverse applications running in the cloud. Cloud management gives visibility and control over this otherwise uncoordinated ecosystem, integrating operating systems, applications, storage frameworks, provisioning, cloud security, and anything else hosted on the enterprise’s cloud. Administrators gain access and control over the enterprise cloud through a web-based interface that they can access remotely.  **Finance industry:** Cloud services enable the digital transformation of the finance industry while cloud management platforms offer a dramatically improved experience for this industry using the platform. Due to the increase in mobile consumerization and mass digitization, financial services institutions are transforming data and automating core processes and workflows. The banking sector now provides customized solutions to meet the needs of their diverse customer base with the help of enterprise cloud managed services that support a multitude of enterprise applications. Since cloud offerings and adoption of cloud services are growing, a CMP solution aids in streamlining operations, enabling managed service providers (MSPs) to deliver financial governance, security and compliance governance, and identity and access governance across multiple public clouds. By implementing a CMP solution, the BFSI sector can lower infrastructure costs and increase asset utilization, thereby improving agility and operational efficiency. **Media and entertainment industry:** A global consumer base with a growing demand for “bingeable” content is pushing the M&E industry to provide content that is not only available in a variety of formats, but also tailored for diverse audiences in disparate geographies. Implementation of a cloud management platform helps media enterprises streamline access to media from any location. It enables the management of huge quantities of digital content in a faster, dynamic, and cost-effective manner.  **E-commerce industry:** The scalability of the cloud complements the needs of the retail sector. Provisioning more servers on its own or obtaining funds to build a bigger IT infrastructure will slow down an enterprise's growth. Cloud management solutions provide a business the ability to view and search for non-compliant servers across environments. CMP provides superior stability for online retail and ensures cost efficiency. Cloud management provides advanced data security which has been a rising concern for e-commerce platforms. **Automotive industry:** The automotive industry needs to be up-to-date with its supply chain as this allows them to interact effectively with customers and cater to their needs. Cloud management platforms help this industry as they can have a common environment for both automotive suppliers and manufacturers to share data to ensure that both sides have supply chain visibility. Cloud management platforms are useful for moving, storing, securing, and indexing massive volumes of data generated from connected vehicles.  **Healthcare industry:** Cloud healthcare solutions help doctors to easily stay connected to their patients which improves collaboration with each other. Cloud solutions for the healthcare sector enhance patient engagement, empower health team collaboration, and improve clinical and operational data insights to improve decision making and operational efficiencies. Implementing a cloud management platform by the healthcare industry makes it faster and easier to provide more efficient services to patients and helps ensure the end-to-end security, compliance, and interoperability of health data. #### Software Related to Cloud Management Platforms [Cloud cost management software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-cost-management) **:** Cloud cost management software allows an enterprise to understand and manage the costs and needs associated with its cloud technology. In particular, this means finding cost-effective ways to maximize cloud usage and efficiency. These tools are typically paired with an [infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider](https://www.g2.com/categories/infrastructure-as-a-service-iaas) offering to minimize the costs of their pay-as-you-go model. Cloud cost management software helps companies reduce waste by alerting users of low demand or automatically scaling usage to optimal rates. Companies also use these tools to increase the efficiency of their cloud service usage—these solutions often provide reporting features to outline waste and redundancies. Cloud cost management software has some overlap with [SaaS spend management software](https://www.g2.com/categories/saas-spend-management), but the latter is used to monitor and manage spending on cloud applications rather than infrastructure. [Cloud infrastructure monitoring software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-infrastructure-monitoring) **:** Cloud infrastructure monitoring software allows companies to visualize and track the performance of their applications or services. These tools aggregate data in real time to display information related to a company’s cloud-based resources. These tools can track application performance, network availability, and resource allocation, among other factors. Cloud infrastructure monitoring is a process that makes sure an application both remains available and responds to user requests within an acceptable amount of time. It can also involve goals such as optimizing code or reducing infrastructure costs. Cloud infrastructure monitoring tools may have overlapping features with either [cloud workload protection platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-workload-protection-platforms) or [cloud cost management software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-cost-management). Those tools, however, perform more individualized and specific management capabilities and may not provide adequate or necessary monitoring capabilities. [Cloud infrastructure automation software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-infrastructure-automation) **:** Cloud infrastructure automation technology is used to provision servers and computer data centers through metadata files, as opposed to physical configuration. The concept in practice can also be referred to as implementing "infrastructure as code" or performing continuous configuration automation. Developers will create templated infrastructure to run their application code, review, and integrate it. These templates can then be reused and generated automatically, minimizing a developer’s need to reconfigure infrastructure. Companies use cloud infrastructure automation technology in DevOps practices to reuse pre-configured infrastructure and ensure configuration visibility at all times. These tools can save developers time in configuring infrastructure as well as reduce downtime. These tools have a strong tie to the continuous delivery process. Many DevOps-focused [configuration management software](https://www.g2.com/categories/configuration-management) tools will have the ability to automate cloud infrastructure, but that capability is not inherent in all configuration management tools. Other Software Related to Cloud Management Platforms: [AWS management](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-management-platforms/f/aws-management), [Azure management](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-management-platforms/f/azure-management), [Google Cloud Platform (GCP) management](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-management-platforms/f/google-cloud-platform-gcp-management), [Others](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-management-platforms/f/others), ### Challenges with Cloud Management Platforms **Security and privacy:** Keeping confidential data safe and secure is among the topmost priorities for organizations. Earlier, most companies used corporate firewalls to safeguard their sensitive data. Now with migration to the cloud becoming increasingly common, the challenge of keeping the data secure makes businesses extremely cautious. Where the cloud provider provides the first layer of security, the customer must provide the second. The challenge here is that customers must know what is required by each cloud service provider so that they can properly secure data across their various providers. **Interoperability:** Another common challenge that businesses face while using cloud infrastructure is how to avoid the prospect of being locked into a service. Cloud environments are typically built around an organization’s requirements, which means that switching can be hard. Every business should expect the freedom of portability that allows them to move in and out of the cloud, and between clouds without any hassles. When that is not possible due to lock-in periods and other similar problems, the benefits can be lessened.  **Cloud costs:** Costing is a significant challenge in the adoption, operation, and migration of cloud computing services, especially for small and mid-sized businesses.  **Cloud migration:** Cloud migration refers to the process of moving all the applications and data from on-premises storage to the cloud. Moving business operations to a cloud service provider can be very challenging and may impact the functioning of connected systems. Among the other challenges involved with migration are security configurations, other software investments, time-consuming preparatory work, slow data migrations, extensive troubleshooting, and application downtime. **Limitations on cloud reporting structure:** Rather than using a single cloud, organizations today are using multiple public and private clouds. Enterprises tend to receive reporting metrics from different cloud service providers. This can be challenging when not only trying to correlate between reports from each of these providers but with the organizational reporting structure itself. This imposes limitations on one’s cloud reporting structure. ### How to Buy Cloud Management Platforms #### Requirements Gathering (RFI/RFP) for Cloud Management Platforms If a company is just starting and looking to purchase its first CMP, or maybe an organization needs to update a legacy system--wherever a business is in its buying process, [g2.com](https://www.g2.com/) can help select the best cloud management platform for the business. Finding the right cloud management platform for a business can be difficult due to numerous potential vendors and seemingly similar offerings. Without digging deeper to uncover the details, enterprises run the risk of selecting a solution that can result in unexpected costs, vendor lock-in, difficult-to-agree service level agreements (SLAs), or simply a lack of fit to requirements.  The functional or technical requirements are a core part of the purchase process. Functional requirements usually vary from one organization to the next. Organizations must determine the end goal of purchasing a CMP, whether it is for optimizing costs, requirements around data retention, security, performance, or specific functional requirements. Depending on the scope of the deployment, it might be helpful to produce an RFI, a one-page list with a few bullet points describing what is needed from the platform. #### Compare Cloud Management Platform Products  **Create a long list** As more and more organizations build internal private clouds or enter the service provider market with public clouds, choosing the right vendor and platform for managing today’s hybrid and multi-cloud environments boils down to more than just technical capabilities. Long lists are created by eliminating the options that do not align with the organization’s cloud strategy. Vendor evaluation is an essential part of the CMP buying process, it helps to prepare a consistent list of questions regarding specific needs and concerns to ask each vendor. Whether embarking on a proof-of-concept/pilot or a full enterprise-level deployment of the CMP, the following considerations should enable the establishment of realistic and achievable goals: **Business requirements:** It is important to take into consideration which departments and clients will benefit from the platform deployment and the extent of disruption during the implementation. A business must also take into account the period within which implementation of the CMP will start generating ROI. **Product requirements**** :** The enterprise willing to adopt a CMP should determine the consistency of the platform with its existing cloud strategy. The tool helps in the management of the various cloud platforms and cloud services. Achieving the full value of this investment also requires integration with other tools in the infrastructure that support functions such as service management, DevOps, configuration management, and financial management. A CMP should allow for seamless integration with the organization’s existing services to generate customized and actionable insights. Depending on whether a SaaS or on-premises deployment solution is selected, there may be an impact on the existing connectivity and service level commitments. It is crucial to understand the management functions covered by the CMP in terms of resources, spend, and security and how fast it can detect usage of resources and determine their necessity.  **Support requirements:** The enterprise should be aware of the extent to which it will be dependent on the vendor after the full implementation of the platform. Additionally, vendor patch releases are an important consideration when evaluating cloud management vendors. The user must find out about the release cycles and frequency of the releases in their development cycles. Vendors should provide regular fixes and functional enhancements. If an organization is using a CMP with a SaaS model, it can usually minimize the impact of software releases. The process is usually more seamless than an on-premises deployment. **Create a short list** From the long list of vendors, it is pragmatic to narrow down the list of contenders. Enterprises must select solutions that are aligned with the enterprise’s goals. With this list, businesses can compare the features offered by different vendors and the pricing structure of various solutions. **Conduct demos** Demos provide an opportunity to buyers to see how a cloud management platform works. While pre-recorded demonstrations and slide decks are available online, it is lucrative to request the vendor for a live demo of the CMP platform using the system to dive deep into their technical capabilities.  Additionally, mapping out a draft deployment plan or proof of concept (POC) is highly recommended before making a selection as it provides a roadmap for subsequent activities and defines the resources that are required in each phase. A PoC should prove (or disprove) whether the technology matches the organization’s requirements.  #### Selection of a Cloud Management Platform **Choose a selection team** It is important to recognize that project success is based on a team’s effort including the vendor that will support the CMP deployment with their training and professional services staff as well as the tenant and end-user community. Forming the team and establishing a common vision is imperative. The partnerships for deployment must extend into the enterprise itself.  **Final decision** Cloud services and CMPs are still evolving, it is unlikely that any one platform can serve as a “one size fits all” solution. However, selecting a vendor that has a strategy aligned with the enterprise’s directions and objectives will accelerate growth as the product matures. Rapid developments have pushed providers to innovate and develop mature solutions that work with top public cloud providers as well as on-premises virtual stacks.  Here are few factors to consider while making the final decision: **Total cost of ownership and cost associated with day-to-day data transfers:** One way to evaluate a cloud management vendor is to establish the total cost of ownership (TCO) of its CMP. This involves calculating the cost of acquisition and the recurring operational costs for the service. If there are any additional integrations required, it’s best to include the anticipated costs into the TCO estimate. Some cloud providers offer a low base price but charge extra fees to transfer data. This could lock the user into their product by making it a costly affair to transfer to another provider, hampering the user’s ability to use their data in a way that best suits their requirements. Many cloud service providers encourage customers to move data into their respective clouds by not charging for data ingress. However, data transfer fees do exist for data egress—or moving data out of a cloud data center—not just from the cloud to on-premises, but also between data centers within the same provider, or another cloud provider. The data transfer fees can add up over time. It is crucial to keep data transfer fees in mind when choosing a cloud management solution.  **Product licensing or service subscription model:** A CMP is either a vendor SaaS offering, open-source or a licensed on-premises product. Acquisition and recurring costs will vary widely based on the model an enterprise opts for. It is imperative to scrutinize the terms and conditions of the product support and licensing agreements or SaaS SLAs to achieve enterprise goals within the defined OPEX (operating expense) and CAPEX (capital expenditure) budgets.  **Identifying risks and opportunities early:** Whether a commitment to a given CMP product has been made, or early evaluation is underway, it is important to capture and monitor deployment and operations risks, and improvement opportunities early so that it is possible to leverage the lessons learned, contain cost overruns, and modify plans when needed. Whenever a new technology is leveraged, it is good to devise back-out plans or alternatives when assumptions and outcomes change. It must be ensured that the solution chosen will be adaptable to the organization’s future requirements. ### Cloud Management Platforms Trends **Multi and hybrid cloud environments will continue to grow** Enterprises recognize that cloud management isn’t about having one specific platform or infrastructure, it’s about choosing the solution that’s fit for the job at hand. The emerging trend is that enterprises are becoming less worried about sticking with one vendor and embracing a multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud offering to get the best out of each solution. **Solution-focused partners** As businesses continue to move their infrastructure using SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS, there will be a continuous requirement for third-party vendors who specialize in meeting specific use cases and problem-solving. While one’s cloud service provider will be responsible for infrastructure needs such as storage, outsources will be taking care of computing and networking, specific needs such as data, visibility, AI and ML technology, or IoT. **Continuous shift to tech on demand** As cloud costs are controlled, businesses will have more revenue at their disposal to take advantage of solutions that beat their specific industry challenges. In turn, providers will look to push out innovation that is easily accessible to a wide audience, has a low learning curve, low-code interface, and is more democratized overall, so that anyone can reap the rewards.