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Native Tools
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Cloud Management
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Cloud Management
Administration
Dashboards
Native
- Limited dashboard capabilities for CloudWatch metrics
Cloud Management
- Robust dashboards with custom panes
- Select Best Practices, Cost Savings, CPU Utilization, Spend, etc.
- Display data from multiple accounts across cloud platforms
Native
- Create, customize, publish and share dashboards for an Organization
Cloud Management
- Robust dashboards with custom panes
- Select Best Practices, Cost Savings, CPU Utilization, Spend, etc.
- Display data from multiple accounts across cloud platforms
Native
Cloud Management
Native
Native
Native
Cloud Management
Administration
Multi-Account, Multi-Cloud Support
Native
- Multi-Account capabilities for AWS Organizations but AWS only
Cloud Management
- Easily view reports from multiple accounts and switch between multiple clouds
Native
- Multiple account support for Azure
- AWS Cost Reporting for 1% fee
Cloud Management
- Easily view reports from multiple accounts and switch between multiple clouds
Native
- Multiple accounts and clouds requires Google Anthos
Cloud Management
- Easily view reports from multiple accounts and switch between multiple clouds
Native
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Native
Cloud Management
Administration
Permissions
Native
- AWS Accounts and Roles
Cloud Management
- Extremely granular end-user permissions, down to single reports and features
- Customize solutions for your stakeholders or customers.
Native
- Azure Accounts and Roles
Cloud Management
- Extremely granular end-user permissions, down to single reports and features
- Customize solutions for your stakeholders or customers.
Native
- Google Accounts and Roles
Cloud Management
- Extremely granular end-user permissions, down to single reports and features
- Customize solutions for your stakeholders or customers.
Native
Native
Native
Cloud Management
Administration
Reporting
Native
- Retention reports limited to one year
Cloud Management
- SnapBack™ stores up to 7 years of historical data
- Read-only report, ideal for audit purposes
Native
- Retention reports limited to one year
Cloud Management
- SnapBack™ stores up to 7 years of historical data
- Read-only report, ideal for audit purposes
Native
Cloud Management
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Native
Cloud Management
Automation
Remediation
Native
- Manual
Cloud Management
- Self-Healing Automation for select Security checks
- "Fix Now" and "Always Fix" options
- Workflow support via "Request Fix"
Native
Cloud Management
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Cloud Management
Native
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Cloud Management
Cost Allocation
Invoicing
Native
- Single invoice for Payer account
- AWS branding only
- Optional AWS Billing Conductor (ABC) costs up to $8.25 per account per month
- AWS Billing Conductor pricing examples show a cost of over $10,000 per month for a reseller with many accounts
- ABC does not support Automated RI Unsharing
- ABC requires AWS Organizations
- ABC does not accommodate custom rates by dollar amount
- ABC invoicing does not accommodate Credits or AWS Support charges
- ABC does not support Azure
- ABC does have a margin report but it is based on price uplifts and does not reflect Arbitrage generated from RI Unsharing since AWS cannot do that
Cloud Management
- Automatically generate PDF or CSV invoices
- Enterprises can use reports for chargeback or showback
- White label invoices with custom logo and colors
- CloudCheckr does not charge any fee to generate invoices
- Profit Analysis charts showing Margin and Arbitrage via RI Unsharing
Native
- Single invoice for each plan/subscription
- Azure branding only
Cloud Management
- Automatically generate PDF or CSV invoices
- Invoice for Azure consumption and Office 365
- Enterprises can use reports for chargeback or showback
- White label invoices with custom logo and colors
Native
Cloud Management
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Native
Native
Cloud Management
Cost Allocation
Custom Charges
Native
- Retail pricing only
- AWS Billing Conductor allows percent markup and markdown but not custom dollar rates
- AWS Billing Conductor costs extra
Cloud Management
- Configure custom rates and apply credits or uplifts as desired
- Supports dollar and/or percentage customization
Native
- Retail pricing only
Cloud Management
- Configure custom rates and apply credits or uplifts as desired
- Supports dollar and/or percentage customization
Native
Cloud Management
Native
Native
Native
Cloud Management
Cost Optimization
Recommendations
Native
- RI and Savings Plan Recommendations limited to 7, 30 or 60 days
Cloud Management
- Make a more informed decision before a 1- or 3- year commitment
- Leverage up to 180 days of historical usage to make RI Recommendations (60 days for Savings Plans)
- Leverage Spot Eco for Automated Lifecycle Management of RIs and Savings Plans
- Leverage Spot Elastigroup for Automated Lifecycle Management of Spot Instances
- Leverage Spot Ocean for Automated Container Optimization
Native
- RI Recommendations limited to 7, 30 or 60 days
Cloud Management
- Make a more informed decision before a 1- or 3- year commitment
- Leverage up to 180 days of historical usage to make RI Recommendations
- Leverage Spot Eco for Automated Lifecycle Management of RIs and Savings Plans
- Leverage Spot Elastigroup for Automated Lifecycle Management of Spot Instances
- Leverage Spot Ocean for Automated Container Optimization
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Cloud Management
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Native
Cloud Management
Cost Optimization
Reporting
Native
- Extra configuration and cost via QuickSight or third party Business Intelligence tools required
Cloud Management
- Custom Dashboards offer built-in Business Intelligence
- Interactive sophisticated reports, on-the-fly
- Group and filter costs by account, region, service, operation, usage type, and tag
Native
- Third party Business Intelligence tools required
Cloud Management
- Custom Dashboards offer built-in Business Intelligence
- Interactive sophisticated reports, on-the-fly
- Group and filter costs by account, region, service, operation, usage type, and tag
Native
- Third party Business Intelligence tools required
Cloud Management
- Custom Dashboards offer built-in Business Intelligence
- Interactive sophisticated reports, on-the-fly
- Group and filter costs by account, region, service, operation, usage type, and tag
Native
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Native
Cloud Management
Cost Optimization
Right Sizing
Native
- Recommendations include moving up, down or to a different instance type altogether
Cloud Management
- Recommendations include moving up, down or to a different instance type altogether
- Workflow automation via "Fix Now" or "Request Fix"
- Leverage Spot Eco for Automated Lifecycle Management of RIs and Savings Plans
- Leverage Spot Elastigroup for Automated Lifecycle Management of Spot Instances
- Leverage Spot Ocean for Automated Container Optimization
Native
- Recommendations within instance family.
- Recommendations for MariaDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL, via Azure Advisor
Cloud Management
- Recommendations include moving up, down or to a different instance type altogether
- Right Sizing for PaaS services (App Service Plans, SQL Databases, and Redis Cache)
- Leverage Spot Eco for Automated Lifecycle Management of RIs and Savings Plans
- Leverage Spot Elastigroup for Automated Lifecycle Management of Spot Instances
- Leverage Spot Ocean for Automated Container Optimization
Native
Cloud Management
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Cloud Management
Cost Optimization
Utilization
Native
- Hardcoded thresholds for idle percentage and time period (e.g. 10% over 14 days)
Cloud Management
- Specify threshold for idle percentage such as 5% or 20%
- Specify threshold for time period, such as 14 days or 30 days
- Heatmaps to identify usage trends associated with different groups of resources
- Automatically turn off instances when not needed, such as over the weekend
Native
- Hardcoded thresholds for idle percentage (3%) and time period (7 days) with some adjustments allowed per subscription
Cloud Management
- Specify threshold for idle percentage such as 5% or 20%
- Specify threshold for time period, such as 14 days or 30 days
Native
Cloud Management
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Cloud Management
Security
Best Practice Checks
Native
- 7 free and 107 paid AWS Trusted Advisor checks
Cloud Management
- Hundreds of AWS Cost, Security, Availability and Usage checks in addition to native checks
- Self-Healing Automation for many checks
- 600+ Multi-Cloud checks for Cost, Security, Availability and Usage in one console
- API integration with the AWS Well-Architected Tool and AWS Control Tower
Native
- 60 Azure Advisor and Security Center checks
Cloud Management
- Dozens of Azure Cost, Security, Availability and Usage checks in addition to native checks
- 600+ Multi-Cloud checks for Cost, Security, Availability and Usage in one console
Native
Cloud Management
Native
Native
Native
Cloud Management
Security
Compliance
Native
- AWS CIS (free)
- AWS Config requires manual configuration via Conformance Packs, downloaded from GitHub
- AWS Audit Manager or Inspector required for SOC, FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI-DSS
- Fees are charged fee per resource, per check, per region, per month
- Per AWS' pricing page, fees can be $600 to $6,000 per month or more
- See https://aws.amazon.com/audit-manager/pricing/
Cloud Management
- Tracking and scoring of 36 Total Compliance standards
- Completely automated... no manual setup required
- No extra charges per resource, region, change, check or regulatory standard
- Well-Architected Readiness Advisor reporting
- Includes CIS, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC2, ISO, NIST and more:
- AICPA GAPP
- CoM 201 CMR 17.00
- IEC 62443-3-3- 2013
- NIST 800-171
- NV Gaming MICS
- AICPA SOC2, SOC3 TSPC
- CSA CCM v3
- IRS Pub1075
- NIST 800-53 rev4
- NYCRR 500
- ANSSI - 40 Measures
- DHS CDM Program
- ISO 27002-2013
- NIST 800-82 rev2
- PCI DSS 3.2
- Australian Essential 8
- FFIEC Booklet 2016
- ITIL 2011 KPIs
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- Saudi AMA
- Australian Top 35
- FFIEC CAT
- NERC CIP v5
- NIST SMB Guide
- SEC OCIE Audit Guide
- Center for Internet Security
- FY15 FISMA Metrics
- NERC CIP v6
- NSA MNT
- SG MAS TRM
- COBIT 5 / SOX
- HIPAA
- NERC CIP v7
- NSA Top 10
- Victorian PDSF v1.0
Native
- Azure CIS, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, SOC TSP; Optional Azure Purview can address Compliance for ISO 27001, GDPR, CIS, and SOC standards but only for Data Sources such as Azure Blob, SQL Server, SAP and AWS S3. Extensive configuration is required for such scanning.
Cloud Management
- CIS Benchmark, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC2, SOC3, CSA CCM, NIST 800-171, NIST 800-82, NIST 800-53, NIST CSF, NIST SMB Guide via Spot Security
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Cloud Management
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Cloud Management
Security
Threat Detection
Native
- AWS GuardDuty addresses security threats and intrusion attempts and is complementary
Cloud Management
- CloudCheckr ensures best practices are followed and guardrails are in effect
- CloudCheckr's focus is on detecting security vulnerabilities and automating corrections
Native
- Azure Sentinel addresses security threats and intrusion attempts and is complementary
Cloud Management
- CloudCheckr ensures best practices are followed and guardrails are in effect
- CloudCheckr's focus is on detecting security vulnerabilities
Native
Cloud Management
Native
Native
Native
Cloud Management
Service Provider Tools
Private Labeling
Native
- AWS branding only
Cloud Management
- CloudCheckr can be fully white labeled to drive brand recognition and loyalty
- Personalize logo, favicon and colors for the user interface and invoices
- Optionally use a custom URL and alert email addresses.
Native
- Azure branding only
Cloud Management
- CloudCheckr can be fully white labeled to drive brand recognition and loyalty
- Personalize logo, favicon and colors for the user interface and invoices
- Optionally use a custom URL and alert email addresses.
Native
- Google branding only
Cloud Management
- CloudCheckr can be fully white labeled to drive brand recognition and loyalty
- Personalize logo, favicon and colors for the user interface
- Optionally use a custom URL and alert email addresses.
Native
Native
Native
Cloud Management
Service Provider Tools
Profit Enhancement
Native
- RI and Savings Plan discounts are allocated according to AWS' algorithms
Cloud Management
- MSPs can choose where RIs and Savings Plans are applied
- Charge On-Demand rates as desired
- Profit from the difference via Arbitrage
Native
- RI discounts are allocated according to Azure's algorithms
Cloud Management
- CSPs can choose where RIs are applied
- Charge On-Demand rates as desired
- Profit from the difference via Arbitrage
Native
Cloud Management