AWS Compute Optimizer vs. AWS Cost Explorer

AWS Compute Optimizer

3 Reviews and Ratings

AWS Cost Explorer

6 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AWS Compute Optimizer	Score8 out of 10	N/A	AWS Compute Optimizer recommends optimal AWS Compute resources for workloads to reduce costs and improve performance by using machine learning to analyze historical utilization metrics. Over-provisioning compute can lead to unnecessary infrastructure cost and under-provisioning compute can lead to poor application performance. Compute Optimizer helps users choose the optimal Amazon EC2 instance types, including those that are part of an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group, based on utilization data.	N/A
AWS Cost Explorer	Score6.9 out of 10	N/A	AWS Cost Explorer's interface is used to visualize, understand, and manage AWS costs and usage over time. Users can get custom reports that analyze cost and usage data, and analyze data at a high level (for example, total costs and usage across all accounts), or dive deeper into cost and usage data to identify trends, pinpoint cost drivers, and detect anomalies.	N/A

Pricing

AWS Compute Optimizer

AWS Cost Explorer

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Pricing Offerings
AWS Compute Optimizer	AWS Cost Explorer
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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User Ratings
	AWS Compute Optimizer	AWS Cost Explorer
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS Compute Optimizer	AWS Cost Explorer
Likelihood to Recommend	Amazon AWS AWS Compute Optimizer works well if you are using AWS as the core tech stack. If you are on mixed cloud deployments, then it is less appropriate because it can only give you a partial view. It might be helpful to use a tool that aggregates the usage and billing data from multiple platforms instead. Incentivized Verified User Read full review	Amazon AWS No answers on this topic
Pros	Amazon AWS Detailed analysis of resource uses Suggestion to reduce cost Easy to use Incentivized Sneha Sharma Assistant System Engineer Read full review	Amazon AWS No answers on this topic
Cons	Amazon AWS Although it works great for AWS services but they should give a third party cost add option Many features only work when there is large data available sometime suggestions are not relevant to business problem we address Incentivized Sneha Sharma Assistant System Engineer Read full review	Amazon AWS No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Amazon AWS Although both work in the same manner I prefer AWS cause our department mostly work on AWS technologies and it really makes our life easy in terms of cutting cost and making our application efficient and it gives a whole understanding of resource utilization. I recommend AWS Cost optimizer to all. Incentivized Sneha Sharma Assistant System Engineer Read full review	Amazon AWS No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Amazon AWS It has a very positive impact Reduced the cost by a significant amount Great understanding of resource utilization Incentivized Sneha Sharma Assistant System Engineer Read full review	Amazon AWS No answers on this topic
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