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CoreStack vs VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth 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
5.8
CoreStack achieved 40% cost savings and $8,000 monthly ROI through automation, cost visibility, and enhanced resource management.
Sentiment score
6.1
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth optimizes cloud costs by 20-30% through resource management, improving financial planning and operational efficiency.
With 20 reports every month, that's 80 hours saved, equating to two man-weeks per month, or $8,000 in savings based on a $100 hourly rate for my architect.
Senior Vice President at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We suggested they proceed with CoreStack, and after onboarding it to our offering, within three months, we received positive feedback from customers that we were able to reduce some of their costs.
Senior Solution Architect at Hitachi Systems India Private Ltd
It generates value addition on top of the Trusted Advisor report, which saves major effort for our resources.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
CloudHealth consistently identifies optimization opportunities, resulting in an estimated twenty to thirty percent reduction in cloud infrastructure costs.
V Mware And Vector Administration at Tech Mahindra Limited
I have seen a return on investment with VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth. My company was very happy using this, and they did not buy another solution, so I believe they have seen benefits using this VMWare solution.
AI Software Developer Engineer at IBM
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.1
CoreStack excels in customer service with responsive support, dedicated managers, and efficiency in task reduction, enhancing satisfaction.
Sentiment score
6.8
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's support is praised for reliability and knowledge but needs faster responses and improved personnel qualifications.
CoreStack has positively impacted my organization by saving hours of time for reporting—for example, the governance report which my employees used to take at least four hours for one customer.
Senior Vice President at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
CoreStack support would be around a nine on a scale of one to ten.
Director - SOC & Architecture at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
I have interacted with CoreStack's customer support, and we managed to obtain a technical demo from their team for my team from time to time.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
They provide 24/7 support based on the SLA with the client, ensuring the response times are matched accordingly.
Manager, Project Implementation at ibl-unisys
The engineers are knowledgeable and provide practical guidance for resolving cloud management and governance-related problems.
V Mware And Vector Administration at Tech Mahindra Limited
It is very interactive, with examples on how you can do this or that, and there are the do's and the don'ts.
AI Software Developer Engineer at IBM
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
CoreStack excels in managing scalability across multi-cloud environments, supporting enterprise growth and multi-region governance without issues.
Sentiment score
6.8
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is praised for scalability, user-friendly management, and efficient cloud handling in medium to large environments.
It generates and captures metrics of your workload, which meets our requirements all the time.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
We haven't encountered any issues regarding scalability; the SaaS platform easily accommodates our growth.
Senior Vice President at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The backbone of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is scalability; it is very easy to scale.
AI Software Developer Engineer at IBM
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is well-suited for medium to large-scale enterprise environments, capable of managing multiple AWS accounts and thousands of cloud resources and workloads across different regions from a single dashboard.
V Mware And Vector Administration at Tech Mahindra Limited
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.0
CoreStack is praised for its robust stability, efficient compliance reporting, and adherence to CIS and NIST security standards.
Sentiment score
7.8
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is stable and reliable, with effective cost management, reliable AWS data sync, and regular updates.
With VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth, I can help optimize services and identify the pain points where cost reduction is necessary.
AI Software Developer Engineer at IBM
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is stable and reliable in my experience.
V Mware And Vector Administration at Tech Mahindra Limited
 

Room For Improvement

CoreStack needs enhancements in stability, UI, integrations, customization, security, cost optimization, and AI for improved user experience.
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth needs GCP integration, AI insights, improved access, real-time updates, enhanced reporting, and customizable dashboards.
The recommendations made in CoreStack to delete a machine have the potential to generate major cost savings.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
We need more security features, particularly since the market is increasingly demanding better security tools for cloud management platforms, including cloud security posture assessments.
Senior Vice President at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Specifically, integration with vulnerability management tools and ticketing tools like Jira was not available, so having that would be beneficial.
Director - SOC & Architecture at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
The learning curve is steep because people like to take their own time to understand and roll out things, which creates an overhead in getting people to understand the system.
Manager, Project Implementation at ibl-unisys
I would prefer to see more AI-driven insights that not only recommend optimization but also suggest automated remediation actions.
V Mware And Vector Administration at Tech Mahindra Limited
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth can improve by introducing real-time cost visibility and alerting.
Cloud Engineer at Rishabh Software
 

Setup Cost

CoreStack offers competitive and transparent pricing, manageable setup costs, and flexible licensing for complex enterprise cloud environments.
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth offers cost-effective cloud management for larger enterprises with features like cost optimization and minimal setup.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is straightforward and has flexible pricing based on workload consumption.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
I believe has been competitively priced across the market.
Senior Vice President at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I had no concerns about pricing, setup cost, and licensing since the cost was nominal and good.
Director - SOC & Architecture at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
The pricing is suitable for medium and large enterprises operating in multi-cloud environments that require advanced financial operations and governance capabilities.
V Mware And Vector Administration at Tech Mahindra Limited
Pricing setup is the process of configuring how the cloud costs are calculated and allocated, which includes connecting cloud billing data, defining business groups, mapping resource tags, and setting custom rates if required.
Dev Ops Professional at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Valuable Features

CoreStack enhances compliance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness through FinOps, governance, and centralized reporting, reducing misconfiguration by 25%.
VMware Tanzu CloudHealth simplifies multi-cloud management with cost-saving insights, enhanced transparency, and effective compliance across major cloud services.
The single pane of glass for multi-cloud cost optimization helps me day-to-day by bringing a lot of operational excellence; it saves a lot of time because rather than going to each and every account or multi-cloud portal, which takes a lot of time, having everything on a single pane of glass increases efficiency, delivers results in less time, and provides clear reporting that can be shared with the customer in PDF or CSV formats.
Senior Vice President at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The best features CoreStack offers are primarily the recommendations for cost optimization for RDS and EC2 machines.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
For example, from AWS, it provides visibility on EBS volumes that are not being used, and it gives recommendations to delete them and save some cost.
Senior Solution Architect at Hitachi Systems India Private Ltd
Governance and policy management help enforce governance policies by identifying missing tags, non-compliant resources, public storage, and other configuration issues, ensuring organizations maintain security and operational standards across different cloud environments like GCP, AWS, and Azure.
V Mware And Vector Administration at Tech Mahindra Limited
With this, we have right-sized many instances, removed many unused EBS volumes, and unused Elastic IPs. In that way, we have cut around 20% of cost.
Cloud Engineer at Rishabh Software
CloudHealth identifies underutilized or idle resources and provides right-sizing recommendations, helping organizations reduce unnecessary cloud spending while maintaining application performance.
Dev Ops Professional at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

CoreStack
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
25th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
8th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (19th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of CoreStack is 1.3%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is 3.9%, down from 5.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth3.9%
CoreStack1.3%
Other94.8%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

Manmohan Rao - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
Cost reports have driven accurate AWS workload optimization and continue to guide savings
I can suggest improvements for CoreStack, especially regarding reporting periods. I noticed that some of the cost optimization reports generated potential savings while considering systems that have only maximum utilization of 1% or 2%. The recommendations made in CoreStack to delete a machine have the potential to generate major cost savings, but such machines should not be listed for deletion if they have maximum CPU utilization of 1%. I have concerns about needed improvements primarily regarding AWS. If a customer is running ten virtual machines and one machine has a maximum of 1% utilization, it is considered as an idle instance in the report, which completely ignores that particular machine. This should not be the approach.
Sasikiran Sakalabattina - PeerSpot reviewer
V Mware And Vector Administration at Tech Mahindra Limited
Centralized dashboards have optimized multi-cloud costs and improved financial governance
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is a powerful cloud management platform, but there are areas for improvement. I would prefer to see more AI-driven insights that not only recommend optimization but also suggest automated remediation actions. Real-time cost synchronization could be faster, as billing data sometimes has delays. More customized dashboards and report templates would help teams tailor their needs better. Kubernetes cost visibility could be more granular for centralized workloads. Integration with ITSM and automation tools such as ServiceNow and Ansible could be enhanced. Simplifying initial onboarding and policy configuration would also improve the experience for new users. These enhancements would make the platform even more efficient for enterprise cloud operations. This tool is a mature and relevant cloud management platform with several areas that could be enhanced. I would prefer to see more advanced AI capabilities providing predictive insights and automated remediation for common optimization tasks. Better, faster synchronization of cloud billing and utilization data would enable near real-time cost monitoring. I want more customizable dashboards and executive reports tailored for different stakeholders such as FinOps, infrastructure, and management teams. Improving Kubernetes container cost visibility at the pod level is also necessary. I would prefer to see stronger AI-driven automation, faster real-time cost updates, more customizable dashboards, deeper Kubernetes cost visibility, enhanced DevOps integrations, and a simpler onboarding process as areas needing improvement. These enhancements would further increase operational efficiency and make the platform more valuable for enterprise cloud management.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Media Company
17%
Construction Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Healthcare Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
11%
Construction Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise9
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CoreStack?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is pretty good because we received private pricing, which I cannot disclose. The setup was included as a one-time expense, and licensing is str...
What needs improvement with CoreStack?
At this time, we are exploring other options from CoreStack, but I do not think any specific improvements are needed. However, adding features to automate tasks at the operations level could help p...
What is your primary use case for CoreStack?
My main use case for CoreStack is cloud cost governance and FinOps maturity. We are using CoreStack for our operations team and we have multiple cloud customers from different hyperscalers. For a s...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudHealth?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is that the setup is minimal and simple. I have not been directly responsible for pricing setup in CloudHealth, bu...
What needs improvement with CloudHealth?
The weak points of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth are that while the product is quite capable, cost can be an issue at times. The learning curve is steep because people like to take their own time to und...
What is your primary use case for CloudHealth?
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is used primarily to provide users with a seamless working environment without losing connectivity by offering a solution that virtualizes their computing environment. It i...
 

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