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AWS Application Migration Service vs Densify comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 1, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

AWS Application Migration S...
Ranking in Cloud Migration
6th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
8.6
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Densify
Ranking in Cloud Migration
11th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (27th), Virtualization Management Tools (8th), Cloud Analytics (5th), Cloud Cost Management (16th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Cloud Migration category, the mindshare of AWS Application Migration Service is 4.5%, up from 3.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Densify is 5.0%, up from 2.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Migration Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
AWS Application Migration Service4.5%
Densify5.0%
Other90.5%
Cloud Migration
 

Featured Reviews

Dieudonné-Nsabimana - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultancy Manager at cidns
Integration with other services has improved migration efficiency
A valuable feature is the schema conversion tool, which allows me to migrate databases, for example, from Oracle to Postgres. The service is fully managed by AWS, which makes it better to use the migration services. It is beneficial to enable phased migration, and the service offers easy integration with other AWS services. The integration of AWS Application Migration Service with AWS makes it a good tool for working with AWS services.
AbhishekGupta2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Optimized cloud costs and automated right‑sizing have reduced spend while reporting needs improvement
The best features Densify offers are actionable optimization recommendations, which tell you how to reduce costs while maintaining performance; the ML-powered predictive analytics feature, which considers historical patterns to provide recommendations; multi-cloud coverage for optimization across AWS, Azure, and GCP; and a solid balance between performance and cost. Out of those features, I find myself relying on actionable optimization recommendations and predictive analytics features the most because Densify goes one step beyond by providing recommendations considering historical patterns, especially for workloads that only spike during certain times of the month. Densify has positively impacted my organization by providing significant cost savings through right-sizing and eliminating inefficient resources, allowing faster decisions based on data, and reducing manual intervention for cloud operations, thus providing automation of basic cloud routines. I usually see a twenty-five to thirty percent cost saving in my customer's environment, and from a time-saving perspective, it has almost halved the time of the operations team.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"I rate AWS Application Migration Service a nine out of ten overall."
"The installation process and configuration processes are very straightforward, and in terms of maintenance, it's pretty easy as one person can handle it."
"The CloudEndure feature is most valuable because it is user friendly and very simple."
"The most valuable feature is the live, block-to-block replication."
"AWS Application Migration Service allows us to perform migrations with minimal downtime, which is crucial for our operations."
"CloudEndure is a product that I recommend to my customers because it's very easy to implement, configure, and use."
"The product is reasonably priced."
"The CloudEndure feature is most valuable because it is user friendly and very simple."
"The Control Console provides a very easy to read dashboard of "too little/just right/too much" resources both for current data and on a historical or predictive basis."
"Densify were deemed to be the best for us at the time and they still are, for now."
"The tool will come back and tell us that we can operate with 1,000 minutes as an example, save 90% on the contractual rate and not run into any issues."
"Our team members are now spending more productive time on other priorities and are handling much more effective tasks."
"The solution's tech support is excellent."
"This product has provided us with a more comprehensive solution that is now replacing nearly all other tools which were previously used in the different platforms and environments within the account."
"We switched to Densify because it gave us a more complete end-to-end picture of the environment and really became the system of truth across all of our environments versus having to aggregate information from many dissimilar systems."
"I would say that the initial thing is that it provides us with a technological basis to expand capacity management beyond Excel."
 

Cons

"The schema conversion is not included in the document management services itself. Complex formations require additional steps."
"I think it is important to have more logs, and more details would be great because we have just logged on the client's side, but there weren't many details on the cloud."
"We would like to have a disaster recovery feature included in this solution."
"Live Migration has some issues with target setups."
"There are some features in the Migration Factory that could be integrated directly into AWS Application Migration Service."
"One drawback to using CloudEndure is that the default is to give one small, lightweight server, which is created in the cloud."
"I do not see any improvements required for the CloudEndure."
"Live Migration has some issues with target setups."
"There are times when results are very slow when we search for servers."
"Normalization of CPU utilization is required. At present, the data is available based on entitlement level."
"A closer integration to the service management processes."
"Unfortunately the tools and mechanisms which really came to maturity in the cloud, and were not mainstream on-premise, are still not implemented."
"Densify can be improved in a couple of areas: the learning curve for new users, where it feels like an advanced optimization tool that needs time for full leverage; enhancements in reporting and filter options for more detailed custom reports; and improvements in UI performance since some users feel that the UI is a bit slow or outdated, especially with certain interfaces such as the Kubex Console or the Cloud Decks."
"Initially we talked about some custom reporting, wherein our customer expected certain reports on a few areas, like how the storage is allocated, how the network performance is doing, and how the network utilization is happening for a virtual machine."
"Some parts of the interface are rather complex and require a bit of time to navigate, but this has never stopped us as a Densify advisor is readily available to help with our "how to" queries."
"In terms of integration, the tool has great data. However, it's not always meaningful because the true business attributes of how most Fortune 500 companies operate are not maintaining in one tool, they're in a school of many tools."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Live Migration's price is good."
"For me, the price of the tool is cheap and very good. It is flexible pricing since you pay just for what you use."
"Cost is always involved, but then I feel that this solution is better than other products that we have."
"Densify has licensing setup so you can collect data without licensing. It gives you the ability to collect on everything, then choose later what you would like to license."
"Setup cost is negligible, as it scales fairly well."
"There was some sticker shock, as this is not just another software product to spit out graphs."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Marketing Services Firm
11%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Real Estate/Law Firm
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Construction Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise10
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with CloudEndure Live Migration?
The schema conversion is not included in the document management services itself. Complex formations require additional steps. Furthermore, I noticed that performance can vary with the source and t...
What is your primary use case for CloudEndure Live Migration?
For the moment, I am using AWS Application Migration Service for database migration. The first use case involves moving from on-premise to EC2 hosts. Additionally, I have worked with multi-region r...
What advice do you have for others considering CloudEndure Live Migration?
The service is not complicated; I find it easy to use. For those considering AWS Application Migration Service, the advice depends on their specific needs. If it involves database migration, especi...
What needs improvement with Densify?
Densify can be improved in a couple of areas: the learning curve for new users, where it feels like an advanced optimization tool that needs time for full leverage; enhancements in reporting and fi...
What is your primary use case for Densify?
My main use cases for Densify include cloud cost optimization, predictive resource sizing, assistance in multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments, and reducing the manual analysis of the environme...
What advice do you have for others considering Densify?
My advice for others looking into using Densify is to focus on setting up governance policy early, integrate optimization results into your usual sprints, and train FinOps and engineering teams tog...
 

Also Known As

CloudEndure Live Migration
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Sample Customers

Agio, Cloud Nation, Limelight Networks
AIG, Bank of America, Cigna, Citi
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