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Cloudability vs RightScale: What are the differences?
Developers describe Cloudability as "Cloud management made easy". Cloudability aggregates expenditures into accessible and comprehensive reports, helps identify new opportunities for reducing spend and increasing cloud efficiency, offers budget alerts and recommendations via SMS and email, provides APIs for connecting cloud billing and usage data to any business or financial system, and more. On the other hand, RightScale is detailed as "Manage all of your cloud infrastructure with a single, integrated solution". Automation is the core of RightScale, freeing you to run efficient, scalable, and highly-available applications. Our multi-cloud integration enables you to choose your own clouds, providing freedom to work with any vendor in a rapidly changing market. And rest assured knowing that you have visibility and control over all of your resources in one place. To take advantage of best practices, we encourage you to tap into cloud expertise provided by our service, support, and partner networks when building and managing your infrastructure.
Cloudability and RightScale are primarily classified as "Cloud Monitoring" and "Cloud Management" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Cloudability are:
- Track the KPIs that matter most to you- Create completely customizable cost and usage reports that focus on your business's most critical cloud metrics.
- See trends in your cloud before they happen- Eliminate surprises in your cloud usage and spending with daily email updates, cost predictions, alerts and custom usage/spending reports.
- Target your problem instance(s)- See which of your instances are costing the most, find unused resources, track your footprint by region, and much more.
On the other hand, RightScale provides the following key features:
- Supports: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Datapipe, Google Cloud Platform, HP Cloud, IDCF — Yahoo! Japan, Rackspace, SoftLayer, Windows Azure, CloudStack, OpenStack
- Access, manage, and configure all of your resources — compute, networking, and storage — across all of your clouds.
- See and manipulate all of your cloud servers in one place.
Pros of Cloudability
- Cloud usage stats5
- Cloud cost monitoring3
- Track costs2
- Suggestions on which instances should be reserved1
- Ability to build dashboards (public or private)0
- Easy setup0
- Container friendly0
- Datadog and JIRA Integration0
- AWS, GCP, and Azure support0