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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon CloudWatch

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AAmazon CloudWatch is a native AWS monitoring tool for AWS programs. It provides data collection and resource monitoring capabilities.

    $0

    per canary run

    Cognizant Cloud360

    Score5 out of 10
    N/ACognizant offers Cloud360, a comprehensive cloud management platform.N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon CloudWatchCognizant Cloud360
    Editions & Modules
    Canaries
    $0.0012
    per canary run
    Logs - Analyze (Logs Insights queries)
    $0.005
    per GB of data scanned
    Over 1,000,000 Metrics
    $0.02
    per month
    Contributor Insights - Matched Log Events
    $0.02
    per month per one million log events that match the rule
    Logs - Store (Archival)
    $0.03
    per GB
    Next 750,000 Metrics
    $0.05
    per month
    Next 240,000 Metrics
    $0.10
    per month
    Alarm - Standard Resolution (60 Sec)
    $0.10
    per month per alarm metric
    First 10,000 Metrics
    $0.30
    per month
    Alarm - High Resolution (10 Sec)
    $0.30
    per month per alarm metric
    Alarm - Composite
    $0.50
    per month per alarm
    Logs - Collect (Data Ingestion)
    $0.50
    per GB
    Contributor Insights
    $0.50
    per month per rule
    Events - Custom
    $1.00
    per million events
    Events - Cross-account
    $1.00
    per million events
    CloudWatch RUM
    $1
    per 100k events
    Dashboard
    $3.00
    per month per dashboard
    CloudWatch Evidently - Events
    $5
    per 1 million events
    CloudWatch Evidently - Analysis Units
    $7.50
    per 1 million analysis units
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon CloudWatchCognizant Cloud360
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsWith Amazon CloudWatch, there is no up-front commitment or minimum fee; you simply pay for what you use. You will be charged at the end of the month for your usage.—
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon CloudWatchCognizant Cloud360
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    Amazon AWS
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    Cognizant
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    18 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    18 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    17 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Amazon CloudWatchCognizant Cloud360
    Cloud Management
    Comparison of Cloud Management features of Amazon CloudWatch and Cognizant Cloud360
    Feature
    Amazon CloudWatch
    -
    Ratings
    Cognizant Cloud360
    8.7
    1 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Cloud Management Security00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Automation and Orchestration00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Cost Management00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Cloud Management Performance Monitoring00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Governance and Compliance00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Systems Integration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Amazon CloudWatchCognizant Cloud360
    Small Businesses
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    Rackspace Fabric
    Score6.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Datadog
    Score8.4 out of 10
    IBM Turbonomic
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    NetBrain Technologies
    Score9.2 out of 10
    IBM Turbonomic
    Score9.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon CloudWatchCognizant Cloud360
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.7
    (40 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon CloudWatchCognizant Cloud360
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    For out business we find that AWS Cloudwatch is good at providing real-time metrics for monitoring and analysing the performance and usage of our platform by customers. It is possible to create custom metrics from log events, such people adding items to a basket, checking out or abandoning their orders.
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    Cognizant
    Cognizant Cloud 360 is very well suited for cloud integration of modern, common software among users of a wide spectrum of proficiency levels. The user interface is well designed and intuitive, and all common software tools have existing implementation tools and intuitive platforms for cloud migration. Cognizant Cloud 360 is not as useful when most users are highly technically competent and use specialized, less common software tools that are to be migrated to the cloud platform. Cognizant is technically sound, but maybe not as much as some established competitors (Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, etc) and also may not have familiarity with lesser-known software applications.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • It provides lot many out of the box dashboard to observe the health and usage of your cloud deployments. Few examples are CPU usage, Disk read/write, Network in/out etc.
    • It is possible to stream CloudWatch log data to Amazon Elasticsearch to process them almost real time.
    • If you have setup your code pipeline and wants to see the status, CloudWatch really helps. It can trigger lambda function when certain cloudWatch event happens and lambda can store the data to S3 or Athena which Quicksight can represent.
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    Cognizant
    • Very good customer service team. Very responsive to inquiries, and willing to collaboratively develop solutions to software Platform integration challenges.
    • Very intuitive user interface. Layout for various tools and settings is well-conceived and implemented, and the software is ultimately very easy to navigate for even novice users.
    • Customizable resource library. The platform makes it easy to select tools that are needed without forcing you to subscribe to additional tools that are not needed.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Memory metrics on EC2 are not available on CloudWatch. Depending on workloads if we need visibility on memory metrics we use Solarwinds Orion with the agent installed. For scalable workloads, this involves customization of images being used.
    • Visualization out of the box. But this can easily be addressed with other solutions such as Grafana.
    • By design, this is only used for AWS workloads so depending on your environment cannot be used as an all in one solution for your monitoring.
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    Cognizant
    • Could improve in agility in the delivery life cycle. When customer demands change and abrupt changes in resources and configuration are required, the change order process is not as quick as desired.
    • Advanced technical competence and knowledge of a wide variety of specialized software applications is a bit lacking. Relative to some competitor software from Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, or HP, Cognizant isn’t as technically inclined and ready to handle issues with less common software tools.
    • Not as forthcoming with status updates as some competitors. In cases of interruptions or upcoming updates, Cognizant doesn’t disclose timely and detailed information unless it is specifically requested by the user.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    It's excellent at collecting logs. It's easy to set up. The viewing & querying part could be much better, though. The query syntax takes some time to get used to, & the examples are not helpful. Also, while being great, Log Insights requires manual picking of log streams to query across every time.
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    Cognizant
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    Support is effective, and we were able to get any problems that we couldn't get solved through community discussion forums solved for us by the AWS support team. For example, we were assisted in one instance where we were not sure about the best metrics to use in order to optimize an auto-scaling group on EC2. The support team was able to look at our metrics and give a useful recommendation on which metrics to use.
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    Cognizant
    Support is very timely and thorough in their responses to inquiries, and also is very willing to help in finding collaborative solutions to any technical challenges. Overall, the only negative is they may not be as equipped or ready to proactively handle some more customized requests as a more established competitor would be. This is more of a reflection of the software than the support team.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    Grafana is definitely a lot better and flexible in comparison with Amazon CloudWatch for visualisation, as it offers much more options and is versatile. VictoriaMetrics and Prometheus are time-series databases which can do almost everything cloudwatch can do in a better and cheaper way. Integrating Grafana with them will make it more capable Elasticsearch for log retention and querying will surpass cloudwatch log monitoring in both performance and speed
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    Cognizant
    Cognizant Cloud 360 has more of a modern look to it and most of the same functionality. I prefer the layout of Cognizant as I find it more intuitive for a variety of users, but Microsoft’s is also pretty well laid out. Microsoft is more established and has more experience in integrating a wide variety of applications, and so is more ready and equipped to handle less common application cloud integration.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • Positive for alarms and alert notifications once configured/customized.
    • Has upfront learning curve, and cost can increase as does the alarm activity and monitoring details you may require.
    • Cost-effective for any size organization keeping with AWS and utilizing its native tools is a savings in long-term ROI.
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    Cognizant
    • Cognizant Cloud 360 has saved on overall hardware costs, as many resources have been migrated to the cloud platform and local storage and hardware systems are no longer needed.
    • There was an initial period of negative return as the migration was occurring, as some applications were interrupted, which in turn interrupted the flow of projects and inhibited the timely allocation of resources.
    • Another positive return can be measured in time savings, as users can more easily access applications from the central cloud source versus various locally customized network locations.
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    Amazon CloudWatch Screenshots

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