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Snyk vs VMware Aria Automation comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 4, 2025

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
7.0
Users praise Snyk for efficient vulnerability identification, enhancing security, saving developer time, and improving early-stage development cost-efficiency.
Sentiment score
7.5
VMware Aria Automation significantly reduces provisioning times and workload, enhancing productivity and cost efficiency with varied ROI among users.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.6
Snyk's support is responsive and effective, praised for direct engineer access, engagement, and comprehensive assistance with minor improvement areas.
Sentiment score
6.7
VMware Aria Automation support receives mixed reviews, with varying responsiveness, community reliance, and documentation improvement needed.
Our long-standing association has ensured smooth communication, resulting in favorable support experiences and satisfactory issue resolution.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Snyk is scalable, integrates with cloud services, scans quickly, and is preferred over on-prem for large deployments.
Sentiment score
7.5
VMware Aria Automation is praised for scalability and efficiency, though configurations can pose challenges; updates improve adaptability for enterprises.
Snyk allows for scaling across large organizations, accommodating tens of thousands of applications and over 60,000 repositories.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
Snyk is stable with responsive support, though users face minor integration challenges and isolated performance issues in large projects.
Sentiment score
6.8
VMware Aria Automation is reliable, but experiences issues with upgrades and integrations, though recent versions show improvements.
 

Room For Improvement

Snyk users seek reduced false positives, improved integration, more languages, enhanced AI, better UI, and faster API responses.
VMware Aria Automation needs better UI, domain integration, broader cloud support, stability, migration, pricing, documentation, and automation features.
It lacks the ability to select branches on its Web UI, forcing users to rely on CLI or CI/CD for that functionality.
The inclusion of AI to remove false positives would be beneficial.
It operates for both of my products, however, as a product, it is complicated to integrate and automate with other products.
 

Setup Cost

Snyk offers scalable, user-based pricing seen as expensive but valuable, with negotiable packages for enterprise cloud deployments.
Users appreciate VMware Aria Automation's features but criticize its confusing and costly licensing structure and potential extra support costs.
Snyk is recognized as the cheapest option we have evaluated.
 

Valuable Features

Snyk offers comprehensive security with seamless integration, automation, and developer-friendly tools, enhancing risk management and usability.
VMware Aria Automation enhances cloud management, automating tasks with user-friendly features, efficiency, cost reduction, and flexible integration.
Our integration of Snyk into GitHub allows us to automatically scan codebases and identify issues, which has improved efficiency.
Snyk helps detect vulnerabilities before code moves to production, allowing for integration with DevOps and providing a shift-left advantage by identifying and fixing bugs before deployment.
It helps us automate the workflow of creating many VMs and the TensorFlow key method.
 

Categories and Ranking

Snyk
Ranking in Cloud Management
16th
Ranking in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
16th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
47
Ranking in other categories
Application Security Tools (5th), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (7th), Container Security (5th), Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (2nd), Software Development Analytics (2nd), DevSecOps (2nd), Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) (1st)
VMware Aria Automation
Ranking in Cloud Management
1st
Ranking in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
17th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
170
Ranking in other categories
Configuration Management (7th), Network Automation (3rd), Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Snyk is 0.5%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Aria Automation is 11.8%, up from 11.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

meetharoon - PeerSpot reviewer
Affordable tool boosts code scanning efficiency but faces integration hurdles
The most important feature of Snyk is its cost-effectiveness compared to other solutions such as Check Point. It is easy to consolidate Snyk across multiple entities within a large organization. Additionally, our integration of Snyk into GitHub allows us to automatically scan codebases and identify issues, which has improved efficiency.
Le Quang Long - PeerSpot reviewer
Significantly streamlined operations with good automation that helps with simplifying workflows
It helps me build a big catalog and provide it to my end users. It helps us automate the workflow of creating many VMs and the TensorFlow key method. I do not meet many people to operate it live beforehand. It operates for both of my products, but as a product, it is complicated to integrate and automate with other products.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Insurance Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

How does Snyk compare with SonarQube?
Snyk does a great job identifying and reducing vulnerabilities. This solution is fully automated and monitors 24/7 to find any issues reported on the internet. It will store dependencies that you a...
What do you like most about Snyk?
The most effective feature in securing project dependencies stems from its ability to highlight security vulnerabilities.
What needs improvement with Snyk?
There are a lot of false positives that need to be identified and separated. The inclusion of AI to remove false positives would be beneficial. So far, I've not seen any AI features to enhance vuln...
What's the difference between VMware vRA (automation) and vROps (operations)?
vROP is a virtualization management solution from VMWare. It is efficient and easy to manage. You can find anything you need from the software interface. It provides complete visibility over applic...
Is there any way to try VMware Aria Automation for free?
When it comes to VMware Aria Automation, you have three choices for free runs: Hands-on Lab (HOL) Advanced lab A free trial I cannot describe in detail the second and third options as my company ...
Which sectors can benefit the most from VMware Aria Automation?
I was looking at VMware Aria Automation case studies recently and I got the impression that three main kinds of companies were using it most often: Social organizations Financial institutions and ...
 

Also Known As

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VMware vRealize Automation, vRA, VMware DynamicOps Cloud Suite, SaltStack
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

StartApp, Segment, Skyscanner, DigitalOcean, Comic Relief
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