AWS Control Tower vs VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and VMware are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.7, while VMware is ranked #17 with an average rating of 8.0. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 1.6% mindshare in CM, compared to VMware’s 2.0% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of VMware users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

VMware Tanzu CloudHealth and AWS Control Tower are competitors in the cloud infrastructure management category. VMware Tanzu CloudHealth is praised for its comprehensive pricing options and customer support, while AWS Control Tower is preferred by organizations prioritizing extensive cloud control due to its robust features despite higher costs.

Features: VMware Tanzu CloudHealth provides detailed cost management, precise financial oversight, and multi-cloud governance. AWS Control Tower offers superior automation, centralized policy enforcement, and comprehensive governance capabilities for extensive AWS environments.

Room for Improvement: VMware Tanzu CloudHealth could enhance its automation capabilities and increase governance features suitable for enterprises focused on AWS environments while integrating more AWS-specific tools. AWS Control Tower would benefit from a reduction in complexity during deployment, improvement in multi-cloud support, and affordability in setup costs for smaller organizations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: VMware Tanzu CloudHealth offers a straightforward deployment model and responsive customer service, simplifying the integration of multiple cloud platforms. AWS Control Tower, though slightly more complex to deploy, provides extensive AWS-specific guidance and centralized management convenience.

Pricing and ROI: VMware Tanzu CloudHealth's favorable pricing strategies lead to efficient cost management and a good ROI through detailed tracking capabilities. AWS Control Tower may involve a higher setup cost, but it justifies the ROI for organizations deeply invested in AWS with its extensive governance features that streamline operations.

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IBM Turbonomic

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of IBM Turbonomic is 5.6%, down from 6.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of AWS Control Tower is 1.6%, down from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is 2.0%, down from 3.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Alex Darby

Director, Infrastructure, Wintel Engineering at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Saves time during workload migration, facilitates sizing of virtual servers, and the support team is helpful

The right-sizing feature is the most captivating one for us. It helped in taking the emotions out of what people think they need, basing it off of real data, and providing them what they actually need. It's not really a special feature, but the support that we received from that team really helped us in our success. There were definitely some customizations that needed to take place to make it successful. This is the most aware of our products, in terms of understanding all of the components from the top down. It is integrated with all of the different modules, all the way down to the core infrastructure. All of it is tied together and there are not many tools that can do that.

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MuhammadAzhar Khan

Senior DevOps Engineer at Alibaba Group

Unified security management ensures comprehensive compliance for account safety

Control Tower offers many valuable features for managing all account security. I can manage user security and user IAM, firewall, and other security-related tasks via Control Tower. The unified security management is a crucial aspect, and whenever an AWS organization is used, Control Tower is typically included to ensure comprehensive compliance fulfillment.

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Steve Staten

Cloud Advisor Specialist at Converge Technology Solutions Corp

The solution has excellent scalability, great dashboards, and is stable

I use the solution daily, multiple hours a day to identify possible savings by analyzing the various displays as well as the policies for possible cost savings for our customers CloudHelth has helped our organization with trying to right-size virtual machines based on current utilization and…

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We can manage multiple environments using a single pane of glass, which is something that I really like."

"The automated memory balancing, where it looks at whether it's being used in the most efficient way and adds or takes away memory, is the best part. If it didn't do that, it would be something that I would have to do. We have too many machines for one person to do that. The automation helps me in that it is done in a really efficient way and a balanced way because of the policies. It really helps."

"We have VM placement in Automated mode and currently have all other metrics in Recommend mode."

"Using this product helps us to reduce performance risk because it shows us where resources are needed but not yet allocated."

"The ability to monitor and automate both the right-sizing of VMs as well as to automate the vMotion of VMs across ESXi hosts."

"We like that Turbonomic shows application metrics and estimates the impact of taking a suggested action. It provides us a map of resource utilization as part of its recommendation. We evaluate and compare that to what we think would be appropriate from a human perspective to that what Turbonomic is doing, then take the best action going forward."

"Turbonomic can show us if we're not using some of our storage volumes efficiently in AWS. For example, if we've over-provisioned one of our virtual machines to have dedicated IOPs that it doesn't need, Turbonomic will detect that and tell us."

"Turbonomic helps us right-size virtual machines to utilize the available infrastructure components available and suggest where resources should exist. We also use the predictive tool to forecast what will happen when we add additional compute-demanding virtual machines or something to the environment. It shows us how that would impact existing resources. All of that frees up time that would otherwise be spent on manual calculation."

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"Control Tower offers many valuable features for managing all account security."

"The most intriguing feature is the automatic generation of user accounts. Leveraging Active Directory and global company settings, AWS Cloud Tower enables the creation of AWS user accounts based on job descriptions in Active Directory. This establishes a direct correlation between the user's name, job definition, and the corresponding rules applied to each account."

"Compliance is the most valuable feature."

"It is incredibly user-friendly and functions seamlessly."

"Security is the most valuable feature of Control Tower."

"AWS Control Tower is a tool specifically designed for multi-account management. It offers the advantage of highly granular management."

"It offers automated recommendations for security and policies, creating a landing zone and providing a list of policies."

"It provides a central point for account management, access control, and compliance monitoring."

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"The solution is good for cloud cost management."

"It's stable. For report presentation, it's been fast."

"The solution is useful for cloud transparency and visibility in reports and dashboards that I have generated, especially the pre-populated dashboards."

"The most valuable thing I have found is the cost saving recommendations"

"We use dashboards quite heavily, but one of the features that have really stood out is some of the policies we've created to alert us of particular situations."

"This solution is fast and very easy to understand, even if you are not a technician."

"The product is easy to use in terms of monitoring all the environments. It works for multiple clouds."

"The pricing is rather competitive right now."

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Cons

"There are a few things that we did notice. It does kind of seem to run away from itself a little bit. It does seem to have a mind of its own sometimes. It goes out there and just kind of goes crazy. There needs to be something that kind of throttles things back a little bit. I have personally seen where we've been working on things, then pulled servers out of the VMware cluster and found that Turbonomic was still trying to ship resources to and from that node. So, there has to be some kind of throttling or ability for it to not be so buggy in that area. Because we've pulled nodes out of a cluster into maintenance mode, then brought it back up, and it tried to put workloads on that outside of a cluster. There may be something that is available for this, but it seems very kludgy to me."

"Additional interfaces would be helpful."

"They could add a few more reports. They could also be a bit more granular. While they have reports, sometimes it is hard to figure out what you are looking for just by looking at the date."

"Turbonomic doesn't do storage placement how I would prefer. We use multiple shared storage volumes on VMware, so I don't have one big disk. I have lots of disks that I can place VMs on, and that consumes IOPS from the disk subsystem. We were getting recommendations to provision a new volume."

"The planning and costing areas could be a little bit more detailed. When you have more than 2,000 machines, the reports don't work properly. They need to fix it so that the reports work when you use that many virtual machines."

"The reporting needs to be improved. It's important for us to know and be able to look back on what happened and why certain decisions were made, and we want to use a custom report for this."

"There is an opportunity for improvement with some of Turbonomic's permissions internally for role-based access control. We would like the ability to come up with some customized permissions or scope permissions a bit differently than the product provides."

"Since the introduction of a HTML 5 based interface, our main - but minor - criticism of a less than intuitive operation managers' GUI would be the area of improvement."

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"The sole drawback is its restriction to enable only one Control Tower."

"While using the solution recently, it broke a certain activity. So, AWS Control Tower needs to consider making the solution better."

"There aren't any additional features that I feel are missing. However, it's worth noting that Control Tower seems to function as a layer utilizing standard AWS products in the background. Occasionally, the interface may appear less streamlined, with changes in layout based on the underlying products being used. While this doesn't impact functionality, having a more standardized user interface, irrespective of the background products, could enhance the user experience."

"It could be improved by having a more intuitive graphical interface. It could also include other coding languages like PowerShell and Python, as it would be beneficial for DevOps recommendations."

"It would be beneficial if AWS offered the capability to seamlessly deploy your infrastructure to another region to ensure continuous availability and redundancy."

"AWS should provide more resources, examples, and tutorials."

"The solution's stability could be improved."

"There should be more automation security tools in the Control Tower."

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"It would be helpful to have a mobile version or a tablet version, especially for people who are outside of the office."

"The performance and accuracy of Cloud Health need to be improved."

"The export features regarding CSV files and specifically around identifying savings plans have room for improvement, as well as the drill-down features for reservation utilization."

"The solution doesn't offer the best functionality, unfortunately. Some features just simply aren't on offer. The solution needs to offer more product milestones."

"I would like to see better integration from CloudHealth to create easier setup and implementation."

"The Perspectives feature could be better."

"If you are working with the OS you need help and other connectors to get more information."

"CloudHealth needs to start building out Turbonomics-types of features that help the customers who are using CloudHealth really understand everything down to the server level, the virtual machine level."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Contact the Turbonomic sales team, explain your needs and what you're looking to monitor. They will get a pre-sales SE on the phone and together work up a very accurate quote."

"It is an endpoint type license, which is fine. It is not overly expensive."

"The product is fairly priced right now. Given its capabilities, it is excellently priced. We think that the product will become self-funding because we will be able to maximize our resources, which will help us from a capacity perspective. That should save us money in the long run."

"It was an annual buy-in. You basically purchase it based on your host type stuff. The buy-in was about 20K, and the annual maintenance is about $3,000 a year."

"I have not seen Turbonomic's new pricing since IBM purchased it. When we were looking at it in my previous company before IBM's purchase, it was compatible with other tools."

"I consider the pricing to be high."

"Everybody tells me the pricing is high. But the ROIs are great."

"It's worth the time and money investment if you can afford it."

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"It operates on a pay-as-you-go model, meaning we are charged only for the services we actively use within it."

"The pricing structure is closely intertwined with the specifics of your environment and the billing strategy you employ."

"It is cost-effective and the associated cost is quite minimal."

"The pay-as-you-go model ensures you're only charged for what you use, which offers great flexibility for different types of companies."

"The pricing is efficient, not overly expensive but also not very cheap."

"AWS Control Tower is not really that expensive."

"The product's affordability depends on the value it brings to specific organizations."

"It is expensive but it is an investment in my opinion."

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"The pricing is competitive and while other products are good they are considerably more expensive."

"CloudHealth has a subscription-based model."

"There could be flexibility in pricing for the product."

"The licensing fees depend on how big the company is. If you are a larger company then you have a better contract with a better price. The price is different for a small company."

"I give the cost of the solution an eight out of ten."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Educational Organization

34%

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Turbonomic?

It offers different scenarios. It provides more capabilities than many other tools available. Typically, its price is...

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What needs improvement with Turbonomic?

The implementation could be enhanced.

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What is your primary use case for Turbonomic?

We use IBM Turbonomic to automate our cloud operations, including monitoring, consolidating dashboards, and reporting...

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What do you like most about AWS Control Tower?

The most intriguing feature is the automatic generation of user accounts. Leveraging Active Directory and global comp...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Control Tower?

Control Tower within the AWS Organization does not have a charge. It is free and does not incur additional charges.

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What needs improvement with AWS Control Tower?

There is a sync issue within the organization. It is important that the system syncs automatically instead of requiri...

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What do you like most about CloudHealth?

The product is easy to use in terms of monitoring all the environments. It works for multiple clouds.

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What needs improvement with CloudHealth?

There could be flexibility in pricing for the product. They should provide information or tools to tune the cloud res...

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What advice do you have for others considering CloudHealth?

I rate VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth an eight out of ten.

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Overview

IBM Turbonomic offers automation, planning, and right-sizing recommendations to streamline resource management, improve efficiencies, and optimize costs across virtualized environments and cloud platforms.

IBM Turbonomic is valued for its capability to optimize resource allocation and monitor virtual environments efficiently. It facilitates automated decision-making in VM sizing, load balancing, and cost optimization for both on-premises and cloud deployments. Users can leverage insights for workload placement, ensure peak performance assurance, and effectively right-size across VMware and Azure. The ongoing transition to HTML5 aims to improve visual and navigational ease, while expanded reporting features are anticipated. Opportunities for improved training, documentation, and integrations enhance platform usability and functionality.

What Are the Key Features?

Automation: Streamlines resource allocation and VM management.
Planning Tools: Supports capacity management and growth projections.
Right-Sizing: Optimizes VM configurations for efficient resource use.
Customizable Dashboards: Provides quick insights into environment health.
Reporting Capabilities: Offers valuable data for informed decision-making.
Cloud Integration: Ensures cost-effective resource utilization.

What Benefits Should Be Looked For?

Performance Enhancement: Improves application performance efficiency.
Cost Reduction: Minimizes operational expenses through optimizations.
Infrastructure Efficiency: Maximizes use of IT infrastructure resources.

In finance, IBM Turbonomic aids in maintaining platform efficiency during market fluctuations. Healthcare organizations leverage its capability for resource optimization during high-demand periods to enhance patient care support. Retailers use it for planning in peak seasons, ensuring resources align with fluctuating demand to maintain performance continuity.

IBM

AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a new, secure, multi-account AWS environment. It establishes a landing zone that is based on best-practices blueprints, and enables governance using guardrails you can choose from a pre-packaged list.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

VMware Tanzu CloudHealth, formerly known as VMware Aria Cost Powered by CloudHealth, is a specialized cloud management platform tailored for Multi-Cloud Cost Optimization. It offers comprehensive visibility into cloud spending across various providers, enabling users to identify areas for optimization and make informed resource allocation decisions. With features like reserved instance management, resource rightsizing, and automated cost governance policies, it facilitates financial management for optimal cost efficiency. Beyond cost optimization, Tanzu CloudHealth enhances cloud operations through workload optimization and governance automation, catering to multi-cloud environments encompassing public, private, and hybrid clouds. Its primary focus remains on enabling organizations to effectively manage and reduce cloud expenditures while supporting operations across diverse cloud platforms.

VMware

Sample Customers

IBM, J.B. Hunt, BBC, The Capita Group, SulAmérica, Rabobank, PROS, ThinkON, O.C. Tanner Co.

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers

Pinterest, Dow Jones, RhythmOne, Ziff Davis, Acquia, Mentor Graphics, Lookout, Veracode, SwiftKey, Amtrak, Shi, Imgur, SumoLogic, NewsUK, Cloudera, Canvas

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