# Best Cloud Management Platforms - Page 3

  *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




  
## How Many Cloud Management Platforms Products Does G2 Track?
**Total Products under this Category:** 182

### Category Stats (May 2026)
- **Average Rating**: 4.54/5
- **New Reviews This Quarter**: 59
- **Buyer Segments**: Small-Business 48% │ Mid-Market 32% │ Enterprise 20%
- **Top Trending Product**: Cloudbolt Software (+0.25)
*Last updated: May 18, 2026*

  
## How Does G2 Rank Cloud Management Platforms Products?

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## Which Cloud Management Platforms Is Best for Your Use Case?

- **Leader:** [Google Compute Engine](https://www.g2.com/products/google-compute-engine/reviews)
- **Highest Performer:** [Cloudshot](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudshot/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)

  
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  ## What Are the Top-Rated Cloud Management Platforms Products in 2026?
### 1. [F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management](https://www.g2.com/products/f5-big-iq-centralized-management/reviews)
  F5® BIG-IQ® Centralized Management provides an application-centric and unified point of visibility and control for F5 BIG-IP products and features. BIG-IQ Centralized Management significantly eases the burden of managing the BIG-IP system and offers value to NetOps, DevOps, and SecOps users with automated workflows, intelligent device management, role- and user-specific GUIs and dashboards, and tight third-party integrations. In short, BIG-IQ Centralized Management enables you to gain insight into and keep tight control of every BIG-IP application service and device in on-premises, public, and private cloud environments.


  **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 11
**How Do G2 Users Rate F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management?**

- **Cloud Optimization:** 8.3/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Cloud Orchestration:** 9.4/10 (Category avg: 8.8/10)
- **Quality of Support:** 8.1/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)
- **Cloud Resource Management:** 9.4/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)

**Who Is the Company Behind F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management?**

- **Seller:** [F5](https://www.g2.com/sellers/f5-f6451ada-8c47-43f5-b017-58663a045bc5)
- **HQ Location:** Seattle, Washington
- **Twitter:** @F5Networks (1,386 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/4841/ (6,133 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Who Uses This Product?**
  - **Company Size:** 55% Small-Business, 27% Enterprise


### 2. [NX1](https://www.g2.com/products/nx1/reviews)
  About ; Citadel is a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution for managing your Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure. It sits within your AWS account, and is procured on a monthly SaaS license agreement, with no limits on environments or users. How it works ; It easily plugs into existing accounts, to determine your AWS security posture quickly, and offers auto-remediation for non-compliance. Alternatively, you can also setup a brand new environment, provisioning a best-in-class AWS infrastructure with the highest AWS security controls from day 1 using Citadel also. Native compliance modules, provided out of the box - at no additional charge, provide continuous control monitoring, and the ability to remediate when non-compliance arises.


  **Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 10
**How Do G2 Users Rate NX1?**

- **Cloud Optimization:** 9.7/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Cloud Orchestration:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 8.8/10)
- **Quality of Support:** 9.6/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)
- **Cloud Resource Management:** 9.7/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)

**Who Is the Company Behind NX1?**

- **Seller:** [Citadel One](https://www.g2.com/sellers/citadel-one)
- **Year Founded:** 2021
- **HQ Location:** Sydney, New South Wales
- **Twitter:** @runcitadel (4,779 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/No-Linkedin-Presence-Added-Intentionally-By-DataOps (1 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Who Uses This Product?**
  - **Company Size:** 80% Small-Business, 20% Mid-Market


### 3. [ProsperOps](https://www.g2.com/products/prosperops/reviews)
  ProsperOps is a fully automated, multi-cloud cost optimization platform for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Eliminating cloud waste and managing spend is one of the most persistent challenges for FinOps teams. Cloud usage is inherently elastic, but the financial instruments used to manage cost like Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and Committed Use Discounts are rigid. ProsperOps bridges this gap by integrating automated rate optimization with intelligent workload optimization, allowing organizations to continuously align cost with usage without manual oversight. Founded in 2018, ProsperOps helps FinOps and engineering teams reduce costs, mitigate financial risk, and eliminate the operational burden of cloud cost management. The platform is governed by customer-defined controls and operates autonomously in the background to execute thousands of real-time optimizations that respond to evolving usage patterns, architectural changes, and business demands. This allows teams to reclaim time and reinvest their cloud budget into the initiatives that move the business forward.


  **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 21
**How Do G2 Users Rate ProsperOps?**

- **Cloud Optimization:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Cloud Orchestration:** 8.3/10 (Category avg: 8.8/10)
- **Quality of Support:** 9.5/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)
- **Cloud Resource Management:** 8.3/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)

**Who Is the Company Behind ProsperOps?**

- **Seller:** [ProsperOps](https://www.g2.com/sellers/prosperops)
- **Year Founded:** 2018
- **HQ Location:** Austin, US
- **Twitter:** @prosperopshq (138 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/prosperops (108 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Who Uses This Product?**
  - **Top Industries:** Computer Software, Information Technology and Services
  - **Company Size:** 38% Small-Business, 33% Mid-Market


### 4. [BMC Helix Cloud Security](https://www.g2.com/products/bmc-helix-cloud-security/reviews)
  BMC Helix Cloud Security automates cloud configuration security checks and remediation - no coding required! - so that the IaaS and PaaS services your stakeholders use are configured securely, consistently, and with an audit trail. Automated, ready-to-use remediation removes manpower bottlenecks to close security gaps quickly. Closed-loop integration to incident and change management keeps everything running smoothly, while enabling scrum teams to easily manage their security posture within governance guardrails. Enable agility, don't hinder it. With extensive content, you can begin securing your cloud footprint in as little as 5 minutes.


  **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 9
**How Do G2 Users Rate BMC Helix Cloud Security?**

- **Cloud Optimization:** 8.9/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Cloud Orchestration:** 8.3/10 (Category avg: 8.8/10)
- **Quality of Support:** 9.2/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)
- **Cloud Resource Management:** 9.4/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)

**Who Is the Company Behind BMC Helix Cloud Security?**

- **Seller:** [BMC Helix](https://www.g2.com/sellers/bmc-helix)
- **Year Founded:** 2025
- **HQ Location:** N/A
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/bmchelix/ (1,083 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Who Uses This Product?**
  - **Company Size:** 50% Small-Business, 40% Mid-Market


### 5. [CloudCheckr CMx](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudcheckr-cmx/reviews)
  The CloudCheckr Cloud Management Platform (CMP) offers a single pane of glass view to help modern enterprises manage and optimize their public cloud. DevOps, SecOps, and FinOps teams from hundreds of global enterprises and service providers rely on CloudCheckr to manage their Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud investments so they can quickly optimize spend, eliminate waste, and improve security and compliance throughout their cloud journey. CloudCheckr enables users to save money, time, and effort to increase operational efficiencies with automated actions for your cloud. Manage your expenses with cost allocation, spend optimization, invoicing and chargebacks. Use custom reports and alerts ensure governance and accountability as your environments scale. The CloudCheckr CMP provides total visibility across your cloud infrastructure and enables protection for state and activity monitoring, turning insight to action while meeting compliance demands. Manage your assets with cross-account dashboards that provide sophisticated reporting for enterprise-wide inventory based on tags, geography, function and more to proactively optimize workloads. Review summary and detailed usage statistics for resources across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, offering actionable intelligence to right-size and scale services efficiently.


  **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 12
**How Do G2 Users Rate CloudCheckr CMx?**

- **Cloud Optimization:** 8.7/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Cloud Orchestration:** 9.6/10 (Category avg: 8.8/10)
- **Quality of Support:** 7.8/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)
- **Cloud Resource Management:** 9.3/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)

**Who Is the Company Behind CloudCheckr CMx?**

- **Seller:** [CloudCheckr](https://www.g2.com/sellers/cloudcheckr)
- **Year Founded:** 2011
- **HQ Location:** Rochester, NY
- **Twitter:** @cloudcheckr (2,119 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloudcheckr/ (33 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Who Uses This Product?**
  - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services
  - **Company Size:** 50% Small-Business, 42% Mid-Market


#### What Are CloudCheckr CMx's Pros and Cons?

**Pros:**

- Comprehensive Solutions (1 reviews)
- Customer Success (1 reviews)
- Customer Support (1 reviews)
- Documentation (1 reviews)
- Ease of Use (1 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Cost Management (1 reviews)
- Expensive (1 reviews)
- Improvement Needed (1 reviews)
- Limited Options (1 reviews)
- Missing Features (1 reviews)

### 6. [CloudCockpit](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudcockpit/reviews)
  Welcome to CloudCockpit, where simplicity meets innovation! An easy and innovative way to simplify cloud management and scale your CSP business CloudCockpit: Simplified Cloud Management Do you believe your team spends a considerable amount of time each week on subscription management? Then you need to talk with us! Who We Are: We are CloudCockpit, the Cloud Commerce Platform Built for Microsoft CSPs Our mission is to help you redefine your Microsoft ecosystem. As experts in Microsoft Cloud Solutions, we provide a platform that simplifies your cloud program operations. Microsoft Direct and Indirect Partners worldwide trust CloudCockpit to streamline cloud operations, automate invoicing, and simplify reporting. We’ve expanded our reach, empowering businesses across more than 39 countries.


  **Average Rating:** 4.9/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 6
**How Do G2 Users Rate CloudCockpit?**

- **Quality of Support:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)

**Who Is the Company Behind CloudCockpit?**

- **Seller:** [CloudCockpit](https://www.g2.com/sellers/cloudcockpit-690ea04c-d07b-4d50-8c11-c6013a7983bc)
- **Company Website:** https://cloudcockpit.com/
- **Year Founded:** 2016
- **HQ Location:** Lisbon, PT
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloudcockpit/ (13 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Who Uses This Product?**
  - **Company Size:** 43% Small-Business, 29% Mid-Market


#### What Are CloudCockpit's Pros and Cons?

**Pros:**

- Customer Support (1 reviews)
- Features (1 reviews)
- Setup Ease (1 reviews)
- User Interface (1 reviews)


### 7. [OneLens](https://www.g2.com/products/onelens/reviews)
  OneLens is a cloud cost optimization and governance platform. OneLens analyzes your cloud setup with a comprehensive policy engine, identifies cost leaks & inefficiencies in your cloud, provides clear, actionable recommendations to fix them and reduce cloud expenses. Set up takes minutes, and cost-saving opportunities are visible within 24 hours, enabling teams to manage cloud costs effectively and streamline their operations. For more information about OneLens, visit https://www.astuto.ai


  **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 9
**How Do G2 Users Rate OneLens?**

- **Quality of Support:** 9.7/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)

**Who Is the Company Behind OneLens?**

- **Seller:** [Astuto Technologies](https://www.g2.com/sellers/astuto-technologies)
- **Year Founded:** 2023
- **HQ Location:** Bengaluru, IN
- **Twitter:** @astuto_ai (50 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/astuto-cloud/ (47 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Who Uses This Product?**
  - **Company Size:** 56% Mid-Market, 22% Enterprise


#### What Are OneLens's Pros and Cons?

**Pros:**

- Recommendations (6 reviews)
- Cost Management (4 reviews)
- Cost Reduction (4 reviews)
- Customer Support (3 reviews)
- Ease of Use (3 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Lack of GCP Support (4 reviews)
- AWS Limitations (1 reviews)
- Azure Integration (1 reviews)
- Complexity (1 reviews)
- Limited Cloud Integration (1 reviews)

### 8. [Cloudforet](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudforet/reviews)
  Cloudforet is an open source multi & hybrid cloud management platform. Manage All Cloud Resources in One Platform, Cloudforet. Copyright © Cloudforet a Series of Linux Foundation Projects, LLC


  **Average Rating:** 4.9/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 6
**How Do G2 Users Rate Cloudforet?**

- **Cloud Optimization:** 6.7/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Cloud Orchestration:** 7.8/10 (Category avg: 8.8/10)
- **Quality of Support:** 9.6/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)
- **Cloud Resource Management:** 8.9/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)

**Who Is the Company Behind Cloudforet?**

- **Seller:** [The Linux Foundation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/the-linux-foundation)
- **Year Founded:** 2015
- **HQ Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Twitter:** @hyperledger (295 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/10851358/ (92 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Who Uses This Product?**
  - **Company Size:** 67% Enterprise, 33% Small-Business


### 9. [OpsNow Cloud Management Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/opsnow-cloud-management-platform/reviews)
  Multi-cloud management framework for modern, distributed businesses. OpsNow brings teams granular insight across all cloud pillars eliminating unwelcome cost and operational surprises; while delivering unmatched, frictionless resource savings plans.


  **Average Rating:** 4.9/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 5
**How Do G2 Users Rate OpsNow Cloud Management Platform?**

- **Cloud Optimization:** 9.6/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Cloud Orchestration:** 8.3/10 (Category avg: 8.8/10)
- **Quality of Support:** 9.6/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)
- **Cloud Resource Management:** 9.6/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)

**Who Is the Company Behind OpsNow Cloud Management Platform?**

- **Seller:** [OpsNow](https://www.g2.com/sellers/opsnow)
- **Year Founded:** 2019
- **HQ Location:** San Fransisco, US
- **Twitter:** @OpsNowHQ (2 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/opsnowio/ (59 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Who Uses This Product?**
  - **Company Size:** 60% Small-Business, 40% Mid-Market


#### What Are OpsNow Cloud Management Platform's Pros and Cons?

**Pros:**

- Cost Reduction (3 reviews)
- Dashboards (3 reviews)
- Recommendations (3 reviews)
- Cost Management (2 reviews)
- Automation (1 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Complexity (1 reviews)

### 10. [Unravel Data](https://www.g2.com/products/unravel-data/reviews)
  Unravel Data is an AI-powered data observability and FinOps platform that goes beyond just observing problems to empowering data teams to take immediate action for transformative results. Built to address the speed and scale of modern data platforms like Databricks, Snowflake, and BigQuery, Unravel’s AI-powered Insights Engine provides recommendations to make smarter decisions and optimize your cloud data analytics' performance, reliability, and efficiency. You get full-stack, 'workload-aware' contextual intelligence about your data applications and pipelines, with AI-driven recommendations on where and how to improve and optimize DataOps, analytics, and AI, helping you troubleshoot faster, meet SLAs, and keep budgets under control. With Unravel, data teams unlock business value from data more quickly and efficiently. Unravel leverages AI and automation to provide real-time, user-level spend reporting, code-level cost optimization tips, and automated spend controls designed to empower and unify DataOps and FinOps teams. With Unravel, data teams can monitor data flows through their pipelines, and detect code, configuration, and infrastructure issues. By correlating and analyzing the full stack of telemetry metadata, Unravel provides easy-to-understand insights, actionable recommendations, and automation to optimize performance and efficiency before you deploy into production. Unravel Data radically transforms the way businesses understand and optimize the performance and cost of their modern data applications – and the complex data pipelines that power those applications. Providing a unified view across the entire data stack, Unravel’s market-leading data observability platform leverages AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics to provide modern data teams with the actionable recommendations they need to turn data into insights. Recently recognized by CRN as a Cloud 100 Company for 2025 and named Best Data Tool & Platform of 2023 by the annual SIIA CODiE Awards, Unravel Data is trusted by some of the world’s most recognized brands, including Maersk, Mastercard, and Equifax to unlock data-driven insights and deliver new innovations to market.


  **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 36
**How Do G2 Users Rate Unravel Data?**

- **Cloud Optimization:** 9.2/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Cloud Orchestration:** 7.8/10 (Category avg: 8.8/10)
- **Quality of Support:** 8.8/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)
- **Cloud Resource Management:** 8.3/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)

**Who Is the Company Behind Unravel Data?**

- **Seller:** [Unravel Data](https://www.g2.com/sellers/unravel-data)
- **Year Founded:** 2016
- **HQ Location:** Mountain View, CA
- **Twitter:** @unraveldata (1,027 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/unravel-data (103 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Who Uses This Product?**
  - **Top Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Financial Services
  - **Company Size:** 81% Enterprise, 17% Small-Business


#### What Are Unravel Data's Pros and Cons?

**Pros:**

- Ease of Use (2 reviews)
- Easy Setup (1 reviews)
- Efficiency (1 reviews)
- Insights (1 reviews)
- Installation Ease (1 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Limited Features (2 reviews)
- Complex Configuration (1 reviews)
- Complex Setup (1 reviews)
- Configuration Difficulty (1 reviews)
- Configuration Issues (1 reviews)

### 11. [Abiquo](https://www.g2.com/products/abiquo/reviews)
  Abiquo provides a Cloud Management Platform that enables organizations to leverage existing virtualization technologies and public cloud to deliver on the promises of cloud computing with improved agility, simplicity, elasticity, efficiency and self-service provisioning. Abiquo delivers the industry’s leading cloud orchestration software for service provider clouds; Our cloud management platform allows customers to quickly build and monetize cloud services, whilst managing hybrid, private or public cloud infrastructure from one intuitive portal. Abiquo serves the complex needs of enterprises and service providers as they advance their virtualization implementations into cloud services, adding value through greater efficiency, visibility, simplicity and control. Many leading managed service providers have created cloud services based on Abiquo's software, differentiating their services with integrations to network, storage and backup solutions. On our youtube channel you will find detailed videos on how Abiquo works. Here some examples: How to optimize your IT delivery process with Abiquo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dBVXjjMZrA Rapid Deploy with Abiquo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-O6s30c3CU&list=PLuOwNrysnpaDsQGwHAS18kSNww3y\_0Id7 Abiquo Basics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdZRn4Fi7AM&list=PLuOwNrysnpaCOViTFy94ytMEgRiHd\_0aS Keep track of all the product updates on our social media (https://twitter.com/abiquo) and our website https://www.abiquo.com/


  **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 5
**How Do G2 Users Rate Abiquo?**

- **Quality of Support:** 9.2/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)

**Who Is the Company Behind Abiquo?**

- **Seller:** [Abiquo](https://www.g2.com/sellers/abiquo)
- **Year Founded:** 2006
- **HQ Location:** London, GB
- **Twitter:** @abiquo (2,200 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/abiquo/ (11 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Who Uses This Product?**
  - **Company Size:** 80% Small-Business, 20% Mid-Market


### 12. [Oracle SOA Cloud Service, SOA Suite](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-soa-cloud-service-soa-suite/reviews)
  SOA Cloud Service & SOA Suite provides an integration platform as a service (iPaaS) so that you can quickly provision your new platform, start developing and deploying your APIs and integration projects and provide real-time analytics as you transition to Digital Business. Link https://www.oracle.com/middleware/application-integration/products.html#soa https://cloud.oracle.com/soa Datasheet – SOA Cloyd Service https://cloud.oracle.com/\_downloads/Datasheet\_SOA\_1/SOACSDataSheet.pdf Datasheet – SOA Suite (on-premises) http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/soa/oracle-soa-suite-ds-066430.pdf eBook – Run SOA in the Cloud https://cloud.oracle.com/opc/paas/ebooks/Oracle\_SOA\_Cloud\_Service.pdf Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kdHJFdxotM


  **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 7
**How Do G2 Users Rate Oracle SOA Cloud Service, SOA Suite?**

- **Quality of Support:** 6.1/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)

**Who Is the Company Behind Oracle SOA Cloud Service, SOA Suite?**

- **Seller:** [Oracle](https://www.g2.com/sellers/oracle)
- **Year Founded:** 1977
- **HQ Location:** Austin, TX
- **Twitter:** @Oracle (828,755 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/1028/ (199,301 employees on LinkedIn®)
- **Ownership:** NYSE:ORCL

**Who Uses This Product?**
  - **Company Size:** 75% Enterprise, 25% Mid-Market


### 13. [Skeddly](https://www.g2.com/products/skeddly/reviews)
  Skeddly is a leading SaaS solution for automated Amazon AWS control, including reducing costs, scheduling backups, eliminating waste, and automating IT tasks.


  **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 7
**How Do G2 Users Rate Skeddly?**

- **Cloud Optimization:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Cloud Orchestration:** 9.2/10 (Category avg: 8.8/10)
- **Quality of Support:** 8.7/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)
- **Cloud Resource Management:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)

**Who Is the Company Behind Skeddly?**

- **Seller:** [Eleven41 Software](https://www.g2.com/sellers/eleven41-software)
- **Year Founded:** 2011
- **HQ Location:** Toronto, CA
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/5399605 (2 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Who Uses This Product?**
  - **Company Size:** 57% Mid-Market, 43% Enterprise


#### What Are Skeddly's Pros and Cons?

**Pros:**

- Automation (1 reviews)
- Automation Efficiency (1 reviews)


### 14. [SolusVM](https://www.g2.com/products/solusvm/reviews)
  SolusVM is the next-gen virtual infrastructure management solution that facilitates cost and time-effectiveness, simplicity, and performance for service providers' and hosting companies needs. With SolusVM at your disposal, you can easily set up a robust VPS-based business without code writing to deliver a more reliable, affordable, and time-tested solution.


  **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 10
**How Do G2 Users Rate SolusVM?**

- **Quality of Support:** 8.1/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)

**Who Is the Company Behind SolusVM?**

- **Seller:** [WebPros](https://www.g2.com/sellers/webpros)
- **Year Founded:** 2017
- **HQ Location:** Switzerland
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/webpros/ (723 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Who Uses This Product?**
  - **Company Size:** 60% Mid-Market, 30% Enterprise


#### What Are SolusVM's Pros and Cons?

**Pros:**

- Ease of Use (4 reviews)
- Cost-Effective (2 reviews)
- Cost Efficiency (2 reviews)
- User Interface (2 reviews)
- Automation (1 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Billing Issues (1 reviews)
- Communication Clarity (1 reviews)
- Difficult Customization (1 reviews)
- Expensive (1 reviews)
- Limited Features (1 reviews)

### 15. [Ampliphae](https://www.g2.com/products/ampliphae/reviews)
  Discovery, Control, and Compliance for SaaS Applications


  **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 3
**How Do G2 Users Rate Ampliphae?**

- **Cloud Optimization:** 6.7/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Cloud Orchestration:** 8.3/10 (Category avg: 8.8/10)
- **Quality of Support:** 8.9/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)
- **Cloud Resource Management:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)

**Who Is the Company Behind Ampliphae?**

- **Seller:** [Ampliphae](https://www.g2.com/sellers/ampliphae)
- **Year Founded:** 2014
- **HQ Location:** Belfast, GB
- **LinkedIn® Page:** http://www.linkedin.com/company/ampliphae-ltd (2 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Who Uses This Product?**
  - **Company Size:** 67% Mid-Market, 33% Enterprise


### 16. [Anexia Engine 3.0](https://www.g2.com/products/anexia-engine-3-0/reviews)
  ANEXIA offers high quality and individual solutions of web and managed hosting, as well as individual software and app development.


  **Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 3

**Who Is the Company Behind Anexia Engine 3.0?**

- **Seller:** [Anexia Engine](https://www.g2.com/sellers/anexia-engine-03a4fd23-b066-4ce4-9396-8cbd0ebd6312)
- **Year Founded:** 2006
- **HQ Location:** Klagenfurt, AT
- **Twitter:** @_ANEXIA (859 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/anexia/ (275 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Who Uses This Product?**
  - **Company Size:** 100% Enterprise


### 17. [CloudYali](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudyali/reviews)
  CloudYali is a cloud FinOps platform that helps engineering, finance, and FinOps teams monitor cloud costs and systematically implement savings recommendations across AWS, GCP, Azure, CDN providers, and AI services like OpenAI and Anthropic. Most cloud cost management tools focus on cost visibility — showing teams where money is being spent and where waste exists. CloudYali covers that ground but extends further into the implementation layer, addressing the gap between identifying savings opportunities and getting engineers to act on them. Industry data shows the average cloud savings recommendation takes 31 days to implement, and fewer than half ever get done. CloudYali is built to compress that timeline by enriching recommendations with the context engineers need to take action confidently. Key features and capabilities include: Multi-cloud cost visibility across AWS, GCP, Azure, CDN providers (Fastly), and AI API services (OpenAI, Anthropic), with real-time dashboards, cost allocation, and anomaly detection that surfaces unexpected spend spikes. Contextualized recommendations that go beyond flagging underutilized resources. Each recommendation is enriched with resource ownership, activity verification through CloudTrail data, utilization metrics with peak and trough patterns, and effort-vs-savings scoring so engineers can evaluate and act in minutes rather than hours. Workflow integration with Jira and Slack that routes recommendations to the right engineer with full context, eliminating the manual triage step where most savings opportunities stall. Implementation tracking and realized savings measurement that lets FinOps teams track every recommendation from identification through completion, and verify that projected savings actually materialized in the cloud bill. Team scorecards and executive reporting that give engineering managers visibility into their team's optimization progress, and give CFOs and finance leaders a clear line of sight into cloud cost efficiency, savings realized, and ROI on optimization efforts. CloudYali is designed for mid-market organizations. The primary users are FinOps practitioners who need to drive measurable savings outcomes, platform engineering leads who need cost optimization integrated into existing developer workflows, CFOs and finance leaders who need visibility into cloud spend efficiency and savings realization, and engineering leaders who need to track ROI on optimization efforts. Common use cases include identifying and eliminating idle cloud resources, rightsizing over-provisioned instances, improving reserved instance and savings plan coverage, cleaning up orphaned storage volumes, scheduling non-production environment shutdowns, and tracking AI API costs. The platform is available with a free tier for cost visibility, with paid tiers adding the action and implementation tracking capabilities.


  **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 9
**How Do G2 Users Rate CloudYali?**

- **Cloud Optimization:** 8.3/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Cloud Orchestration:** 7.2/10 (Category avg: 8.8/10)
- **Quality of Support:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)
- **Cloud Resource Management:** 7.8/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)

**Who Is the Company Behind CloudYali?**

- **Seller:** [CloudYali.io](https://www.g2.com/sellers/cloudyali-io)
- **Year Founded:** 2023
- **HQ Location:** Pune, IN
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloudyali/ (2 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Who Uses This Product?**
  - **Top Industries:** Computer Software
  - **Company Size:** 56% Mid-Market, 33% Small-Business


#### What Are CloudYali's Pros and Cons?

**Pros:**

- Cost Tracking (7 reviews)
- Reporting (6 reviews)
- Cost Management (5 reviews)
- Cost Reduction (5 reviews)
- Dashboards (5 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Cost Management (3 reviews)
- Integration Issues (3 reviews)
- Azure Integration (2 reviews)
- Compatibility Issues (2 reviews)
- Limited Cloud Integration (2 reviews)

### 18. [Nutanix Prism](https://www.g2.com/products/nutanix-nutanix-prism/reviews)
  An enterprise-grade control and management plane for unified hybrid multicloud management


  **Average Rating:** 5.0/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 3
**How Do G2 Users Rate Nutanix Prism?**

- **Cloud Optimization:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Quality of Support:** 9.2/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)
- **Cloud Resource Management:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)

**Who Is the Company Behind Nutanix Prism?**

- **Seller:** [Nutanix](https://www.g2.com/sellers/nutanix)
- **Year Founded:** 2009
- **HQ Location:** San Jose, US
- **Twitter:** @nutanix (90,628 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/735085/ (9,792 employees on LinkedIn®)
- **Ownership:** NASDAQ:NTNX

**Who Uses This Product?**
  - **Company Size:** 67% Enterprise, 33% Mid-Market


#### What Are Nutanix Prism's Pros and Cons?

**Pros:**

- Automation (1 reviews)
- Features (1 reviews)
- Flexibility (1 reviews)
- Insights (1 reviews)
- Performance (1 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Complexity (1 reviews)
- Cost Management (1 reviews)
- Difficult Learning (1 reviews)
- Expensive (1 reviews)

### 19. [Ternary](https://www.g2.com/products/ternary/reviews)
  We offer a B2B SaaS platform providing business applications to the creator economy.


  **Average Rating:** 4.9/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 4
**How Do G2 Users Rate Ternary?**

- **Quality of Support:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)

**Who Is the Company Behind Ternary?**

- **Seller:** [Ternary Developments](https://www.g2.com/sellers/ternary-developments)
- **Year Founded:** 2020
- **HQ Location:** Miami, US
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/ternarydev (5 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Who Uses This Product?**
  - **Company Size:** 100% Small-Business


### 20. [Umbrelly](https://www.g2.com/products/umbrelly/reviews)
  Umbrelly delivers cloud savings with no commitments in just a few clicks. No infrastructure changes. No engineering work. 🌥 Easy onboarding: Integrate seamlessly without changing your infrastructure or stopping instances. 🌥 Secure setup: Umbrelly gets read-only access, ensuring your data and instances stay private. 🌥 Ultimate flexibility: No commitments, adjust capacity on the go, while Umbrelly handles cost optimization. 🌥 Optimized budget: Always get the lowest rates, freeing up your cloud budget for technology innovation.


  **Average Rating:** 5.0/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 8
**How Do G2 Users Rate Umbrelly?**

- **Cloud Optimization:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Cloud Orchestration:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 8.8/10)
- **Quality of Support:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)
- **Cloud Resource Management:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)

**Who Is the Company Behind Umbrelly?**

- **Seller:** [Umbrelly](https://www.g2.com/sellers/umbrelly)
- **Year Founded:** 2022
- **HQ Location:** Dover, US
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/umbrelly-cloud/ (90 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Who Uses This Product?**
  - **Company Size:** 100% Small-Business


#### What Are Umbrelly's Pros and Cons?

**Pros:**

- Cost Saving (4 reviews)
- Ease of Use (4 reviews)
- Cost Reduction (3 reviews)
- Implementation Ease (3 reviews)
- Savings (3 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Azure Integration (1 reviews)
- Lack of GCP Support (1 reviews)
- Limited Cloud Integration (1 reviews)
- Pricing Issues (1 reviews)

### 21. [VazuDev](https://www.g2.com/products/vazudev-vazudev/reviews)
  VazuDev is a cloud management platform crafted by AWS Partners, designed to seamlessly blend all the good stuff you need into one awesome product. We're all about making life easier for AWS partners, saving them loads of cash and tons of time with the power of automation. When it comes to cloud migration, every AWS partner has to start with a readiness check. It's that crucial first step that every AWS partner dives into, and it usually takes a good 2-3 months. Solution Architects, IT teams, and engineers are all a part of this game. But here's the kicker—doing it all manually opens the door to errors, and that can mean extra costs for the folks on the other end. Here comes VazuAI, our superhero for smart automation in assessments. We've cut the time it takes by a whopping 84%, so AWS Partners can wrap up the assessment phase in just a few days. No need to wait around for a Solution Architect to swoop in and save the day. Plus, our reports are not just accurate; they're tailor-made for your specific project needs. We've got the Resource Scheduler to jazz up your AWS resource game, Cost Optimization for savvy management of EKS and ECS clusters, and even an Automated Proposal Generator that does its thing without bothering your Solution Architect. And hey, if you're tired of the hassle of migration assessments and juggling cloud accounts, we've got your back. Schedule a free demo and let VazuDev show you how we can make your work a breeze! Check out our website for all the deets.


  **Average Rating:** 5.0/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 3
**How Do G2 Users Rate VazuDev?**

- **Cloud Optimization:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Cloud Orchestration:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 8.8/10)
- **Quality of Support:** 9.4/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)
- **Cloud Resource Management:** 9.4/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)

**Who Is the Company Behind VazuDev?**

- **Seller:** [VazuDev](https://www.g2.com/sellers/vazudev)
- **HQ Location:** Wilmington, US
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/vazudev (5 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Who Uses This Product?**
  - **Company Size:** 100% Small-Business


### 22. [VMware Tanzu CloudHealth](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-tanzu-cloudhealth/reviews)
  VMware Tanzu CloudHealth transforms the way your organization operates in the cloud with a single solution for multi-cloud management. Tanzu CloudHealth helps customers tackle their cloud challenges by simplifying financial management, streamlining operations, and improving collaboration across multi-cloud environments. Customers are utilizing Tanzu CloudHealth to fuel innovation and gain competitive advantage in the cloud. Key Benefits - Make sense of your cloud data - Optimize and control your cloud spend - Enhance your cloud management practices Gain visibility into your multi-cloud costs, optimize your infrastructure to avoid wasted spending, and stay on budget without sacrificing development speed or application performance with VMware Tanzu CloudHealth. For more information, visit us at cloudhealth.vmware.com or follow us @VMW\_CloudHealth


  **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 11
**How Do G2 Users Rate VMware Tanzu CloudHealth?**

- **Cloud Optimization:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Cloud Orchestration:** 9.2/10 (Category avg: 8.8/10)
- **Quality of Support:** 9.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)
- **Cloud Resource Management:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)

**Who Is the Company Behind VMware Tanzu CloudHealth?**

- **Seller:** [Broadcom](https://www.g2.com/sellers/broadcom-ab3091cd-4724-46a8-ac89-219d6bc8e166)
- **Year Founded:** 1991
- **HQ Location:** San Jose, CA
- **Twitter:** @broadcom (63,483 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/broadcom/ (55,707 employees on LinkedIn®)
- **Ownership:** NASDAQ: CA

**Who Uses This Product?**
  - **Company Size:** 55% Mid-Market, 27% Small-Business


### 23. [Cloud Compute](https://www.g2.com/products/cloud-compute/reviews)
  American Cloud's Compute streamlines your cloud computing experience with automation and an easy to use interface. From deployment to configuration, our solution simplifies the management of your compute infrastructure, saving you time and hassle.


  **Average Rating:** 5.0/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 2
**How Do G2 Users Rate Cloud Compute?**

- **Cloud Optimization:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Cloud Orchestration:** 8.3/10 (Category avg: 8.8/10)
- **Quality of Support:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)
- **Cloud Resource Management:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)

**Who Is the Company Behind Cloud Compute?**

- **Seller:** [American Cloud](https://www.g2.com/sellers/american-cloud)
- **HQ Location:** Santa Clara
- **Twitter:** @americancloudco (3,760 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/americancloud (10 employees on LinkedIn®)

**Who Uses This Product?**
  - **Company Size:** 100% Small-Business


### 24. [EtherInsights](https://www.g2.com/products/etherinsights/reviews)
  What is EtherInsights? EtherInsights is an AI-powered FinOps and cloud management platform purpose-built for Microsoft 365, Azure and Windows 365. It gives IT, engineering and finance a single, real-time view of usage, cost and value, with prescriptive recommendations and one-click actions to optimise licences, Cloud PCs and infrastructure. With EtherInsights you can: Eliminate Microsoft 365 shelfware by detecting underused seats, overlapping plans and dormant add-ons, then reclaim or reassign in clicks. Right-size Windows 365 Cloud PCs based on actual usage, including resize, park or decommission workflows. Optimise Azure: find idle or orphaned resources, right-size VMs with SKU guidance and see the impact of storage choices. Get tag-based cost transparency and owner drill-downs with AI-generated reports and trends. Use EtherAssist, a built-for-admins virtual assistant, to ask questions in plain English and receive best-practice guidance plus ready-to-run scripts. Set alerts for renewals, anomalies and time-bound clean-ups to keep environments tidy. Track estimated emissions for Microsoft 365 and Windows 365. Deployed in minutes with read-only permissions, EtherInsights scales from SMB to enterprise, integrates with existing governance and works equally well direct or via partners. Flexible licensing includes campus and per-active-user options.


  **Average Rating:** 5.0/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 4
**How Do G2 Users Rate EtherInsights?**

- **Cloud Optimization:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Cloud Orchestration:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 8.8/10)
- **Quality of Support:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)
- **Cloud Resource Management:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)

**Who Is the Company Behind EtherInsights?**

- **Seller:** [EfficientEther](https://www.g2.com/sellers/efficientether)
- **Year Founded:** 2023
- **HQ Location:** London, GB
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/efficientether (6 employees on LinkedIn®)
- **Ownership:** Private Limited Company
- **Phone:** +44 (0) 2038220072

**Who Uses This Product?**
  - **Company Size:** 50% Mid-Market, 50% Small-Business


#### What Are EtherInsights's Pros and Cons?

**Pros:**

- Recommendations (3 reviews)
- Cost Management (2 reviews)
- Cost Reduction (2 reviews)
- Easy Setup (2 reviews)
- Helpful (2 reviews)

**Cons:**

- Azure Integration (1 reviews)
- Difficult Learning (1 reviews)
- Integration Issues (1 reviews)
- Lack of Automation (1 reviews)
- Limited Automation (1 reviews)

### 25. [Google Config Connector](https://www.g2.com/products/google-config-connector/reviews)
  Config Connector is an open source Kubernetes addon that allows you to manage Google Cloud resources through Kubernetes. Many cloud-native development teams work with a mix of configuration systems, APIs, and tools to manage their infrastructure. This mix is often difficult to understand, leading to reduced velocity and expensive mistakes. Config Connector provides a method to configure many Google Cloud services and resources using Kubernetes tooling and APIs.


  **Average Rating:** 5.0/5.0
  **Total Reviews:** 2
**How Do G2 Users Rate Google Config Connector?**

- **Cloud Optimization:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.1/10)
- **Cloud Orchestration:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 8.8/10)
- **Quality of Support:** 8.3/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)
- **Cloud Resource Management:** 10.0/10 (Category avg: 9.0/10)

**Who Is the Company Behind Google Config Connector?**

- **Seller:** [Google](https://www.g2.com/sellers/google)
- **Year Founded:** 1998
- **HQ Location:** Mountain View, CA
- **Twitter:** @google (31,915,529 Twitter followers)
- **LinkedIn® Page:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/1441/ (336,169 employees on LinkedIn®)
- **Ownership:** NASDAQ:GOOG

**Who Uses This Product?**
  - **Company Size:** 50% Small-Business, 50% Enterprise



    ## What Is Cloud Management Platforms?
  [IT Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/it-management)
  ## What Software Categories Are Similar to Cloud Management Platforms?
    - [Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Software](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)

  
---

## How Do You Choose the Right Cloud Management Platforms?

### 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.