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CloudBolt vs Firefly comparison

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
6.9
CloudBolt delivers significant ROI with automation, faster provisioning, reduced costs, and enhanced integration for consistent, efficient infrastructure management.
Sentiment score
5.8
Firefly boosts efficiency and profit, reduces costs, accelerates market time, increases revenue, and enhances team speed and creativity.
I have seen a return on investment in terms of time saved as faster infrastructure deliveries.
Cloud Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
We are currently improving 40% of our go-to-market time.
Senior Software Consultant at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
Profit generation increases by about 5 to 10 percent due to the efficiency Firefly provides, even after accounting for its costs and related expenses.
Senior Data Consultant at Simple MDG
The images that we are using from Firefly and rendering on the page look very nice, attracting our users to come back and see the pages again and again.
Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy Services
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.9
CloudBolt's customer service is praised for responsiveness, effective communication, swift issue resolution, and high user satisfaction.
Sentiment score
4.8
Firefly's customer service is efficient and accessible, with users generally satisfied and rating it 8 out of 10.
We have a weekly sync-up call to get a new feature request or if we have any questions regarding it.
Infrastructure Engineering Senior Advisor at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Customer support for CloudBolt is good.
Cloud Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Our issues are typically resolved within the required SLA.
Senior Cloud Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Customer support is pretty good because if there is any issue, we raise a support ticket to the Adobe console and the Adobe team helps with that.
Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy Services
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.2
CloudBolt effectively handles scalability with numerous virtual machines, though predefined blueprints and support delays are occasionally noted.
Sentiment score
5.9
Firefly efficiently scales across platforms and users, integrating seamlessly with UX tools and adapting to expanding AWS requirements.
Firefly's scalability is impressive; as we add new AWS accounts and requirements, it has handled the growth well without any challenges.
Senior Cloud Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
In Figma, Photoshop, or Adobe InDesign, Firefly picks the images very quickly and does not take much time.
Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy Services
Whatever is available from the product gets deployed or available in our sandbox easily.
Senior Software Consultant at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
CloudBolt offers stable performance with high user satisfaction, quick support resolutions, and personalized assistance for optimizing deployment practices.
Sentiment score
8.0
Firefly overcame initial glitches to achieve stable, efficient performance, meeting user needs without any reliability issues.
Firefly is stable and I have not experienced any downtime or reliability issues.
Senior Cloud Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Firefly's stability improved significantly over the past seven to eight months, allowing us to achieve our needs efficiently.
Senior Data Consultant at Simple MDG
 

Room For Improvement

CloudBolt needs enhancements in scheduling, integration, UI/UX, setup simplicity, container support, reporting, cost optimization, and customization.
Users advise Firefly to improve features, onboarding, cost options, and support, emphasizing flexibility, UI, and documentation advancements.
To improve CloudBolt, I believe the user experience needs enhancement as some users find it somewhat dated compared to newer cloud management platforms.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
CloudBolt can be improved. It needs way more customizations when it comes to provisioning itself.
IT Systems Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
If that can be integrated and all the workflows can be managed and customized using the MCP agent, that would be a really good feature to add.
Infrastructure Engineering Senior Advisor at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
This feature would significantly ease tasks related to video editing and adapting to green screen processes.
Senior Data Consultant at Simple MDG
As I'm living here in Brazil and all of Latin America uses a lot of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, it would be good if Firefly could provide their solutions for Oracle Cloud.
Premium Support Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
The model should be trained much more because sometimes I feel some visual effects or some realism is missing from the videos.
Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
 

Setup Cost

CloudBolt offers cost-effective pricing for small setups but can be expensive for large infrastructures; upfront purchases provide savings.
Firefly users praise transparent pricing and licensing for bundled Adobe tools, though some desire more free options.
CloudBolt currently offers a free version of its cloud management platform for up to 100 managed resources; this was announced on August 31, 2026.
Cloud Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
It saved me around 12 to 15 hours of time because I do not want to search, download, and edit images and verify that they are legal and free to use.
Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
Regarding pricing, I feel there should be some free options available for new users, but overall, I find the pricing acceptable.
Senior Cloud Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
But after all the solutions that Firefly could provide to us, they don't care about the price now.
Premium Support Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Valuable Features

CloudBolt enhances multi-cloud management with automation, governance, cost efficiency, and improved ROI, streamlining enterprise workflows and processes.
Firefly enhances governance, efficiency, and creativity with misconfiguration identification, automatic code generation, cloud integration, and machine learning prediction.
From an integration standpoint, CloudBolt works well with various public and private cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, and Nutanix, as well as different virtualization software, infrastructure as code templates such as Ansible and Terraform, ITSM tools such as ServiceNow, and CMDB platforms.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
The best features CloudBolt offers are its speed, which is very fast in terms of provisioning compared to traditional ISO-based methods.
IT Systems Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We are able to do a lot of customization in CloudBolt specific to our use case.
Infrastructure Engineering Senior Advisor at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Our go-to-market becomes easy. Within two hours or three hours, we can complete this whole process: generation, review, and all, and go to the market instantly.
Senior Software Consultant at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
We have legal confidence that we do not get copyrights or get sued for using images or videos because these are AI-generated.
Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
Firefly scans the environment and generates the Terraform code for those resources automatically.
SDE-2 at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

CloudBolt
Ranking in Cloud Management
20th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Cost Management (29th)
Firefly
Ranking in Cloud Management
15th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.6
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of CloudBolt is 1.8%, down from 2.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Firefly is 0.6%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Firefly0.6%
CloudBolt1.8%
Other97.6%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

AbhishekGupta2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Centralized self-service has unified hybrid clouds and has improved governance and cost control
The best features CloudBolt offers include governance and policy control, allowing security teams to set up their specific guardrails with governance at scale. Multi or hybrid cloud abstraction provides a single pane of glass for different types of environments, and self-service catalogs enable technical or business users to request services without multiple tickets. CloudBolt also offers strong integration capabilities that work well with existing tools without disrupting the current environment. From an integration standpoint, CloudBolt works well with various public and private cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, and Nutanix, as well as different virtualization software, infrastructure as code templates such as Ansible and Terraform, ITSM tools such as ServiceNow, and CMDB platforms. CloudBolt has positively impacted my organization by managing multiple cloud environments for thousands of users with a complex enterprise workflow that has helped reduce man-hours required for provisioning resources. We have achieved faster delivery through standardized operating procedures and reduced reworks due to automation. The chargeback and showback mechanisms allow us to charge different business units according to their consumption, providing better governance, lower risk, and lower cost, resulting in a good return on investment. Since using CloudBolt, I have seen a 25 to 30 percent reduction in service delivery time and an improvement in efficiency of almost 20 to 25 percent within a timeframe of approximately 8 to 10 months.
RasanpreetSingh - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cloud Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Automation has streamlined cloud cost control and governance yet onboarding still needs improvement
The best features Firefly offers include cost saving and drift detection, which native infrastructure as code solutions do not provide. Drift detection and governance are great features for Firefly that help me identify unutilized resources that can save costs. Firefly's drift detection and governance help me day-to-day by notifying me of any configuration drifts, such as when developers change configurations that I cannot control. For example, if I have a number of VMs running and their configurations are changed, Firefly alerts me to these changes, allowing me to identify gaps in configurations that can be corrected. Firefly's accuracy and reliability in output are impressive, with approximately 80% accuracy in building the required code for various services from the foundation services like EKS and VPC. Firefly has positively impacted my organization mainly through cost savings and governance. It allows me to have a centralized dashboard for a complete view of my AWS accounts to find problems easily. Additionally, it has saved me time because I no longer need to write every Terraform from scratch, as Firefly provides best industry practices code. For example, I monitored my database instances and found that someone had expanded the ACU size from the required number to ten times more, which began costing me $10,000 monthly extra for one AWS account. Firefly detected this and saved me the $10,000 extra expenditure.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Healthcare Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
18%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
University
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise11
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise9
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudBolt?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing includes that CloudBolt currently offers a free version of its cloud management platform for up to 100 managed resources; this was announced on...
What needs improvement with CloudBolt?
CloudBolt can be improved in areas such as initial workflow design, product complexity, and customization.
What is your primary use case for CloudBolt?
I have been using CloudBolt for nearly one year. My main use case for CloudBolt is as a centralized cloud management and orchestration layer for provisioning and managing infrastructure across diff...
What needs improvement with Firefly?
Firefly could be improved by providing more connected plugins or integrations with other tools or some freeware tools which do not require any kind of licensing. Currently, all these UX tools are l...
What is your primary use case for Firefly?
Our main use case for Firefly is generating image variations, which we are using in Adobe Experience Manager on AEM pages and various kinds of images because our solutions are image heavy. We gener...
What advice do you have for others considering Firefly?
I would rate Firefly an eight. I chose eight out of ten for Firefly because it requires some technical knowledge to browse assets from AEM DAM, and we need to have plugins to browse DAM assets in F...
 

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