Cloud Management Platforms comparison & reviews

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Pros
  • + Extensive out-of-the-box reporting and automation
  • + Among the best at Chargeback
  • + Resource planning and rightsizing analysis
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  • + Valuable annual State of the Cloud report
  • + Good Multi-Cloud support
  • + Good DevOps capabilities
Cons
  • - Below average performance monitoring
  • - Below average 2nd tier public cloud support
  • - Low APAC market presense
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  • - Weakest User Self-Service capabilities
  • - Below average Security features
  • - Separate application for cost management
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Maturity
Company founded in 2006. Shipping product for multiple years. Many large customers.
Incorporated in 2011 and deployed in multiple large enterprise production envrionments.
Founded in 2006, RightScale is one of the oldest CMP firms.
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Content Creator
Embotics
Director of Marketing - Ron Harnik
Community
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Overview
Cloud Management Platform that enables Infrastructure-as-a-Service automation by integrating seamlessly with private, public and hybrid clouds
The Scalr Hybrid Cloud Management Platform takes a fundamentally different approach to cloud management. Scalr applies policies at the organization level, rather than at the application level. For an enterprise with multiple departments or lines of business, the central IT unit can establish levels of policy-based guardrails for each department. Those departments can then operate with greater autonomy and establish any unique policy requirements on their own for their respective teams._x000D_
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RightScale Cloud Portfolio Management enables enterprises to accelerate delivery of applications
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Website
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  Delivery  
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Installation
Single Virtual Machine or Multiple for HA
Scalr can be run on-premise on a private or public cloud, or delivered as SaaS.
SaaS
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Agentless or agentless operation
vCommander is agentless
Scalr can operate with or without the Scalrizr Agent. Using the agent allows for greater orchestration and monitoring capabilites.
RightLink 10 allows users to enable already-running instances using existing images as well as official OS images.
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Database support
MSSQL 2017, 2016, 2014, 2012 SP3
Scalr supports a variety of out-of-box database automation options as well cloud services
RightScale uses a mix of relational databases — notably MySQL — and NoSQL technology, in particular Cassandra.
  Administration  
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Administrator accounts
Unlimited
Unlimited. Admins can be divided across levels of trust and resposibilites.
Unlimited
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User accounts
Unlimited Active Directory and LDAP
Unlimited.
Unlimited
  Pricing  
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Pricing model
Yearly subscription.
Licensed by amount of managed end-points.
RightScale is offered at flat rate based on total public cloud spend. Private cloud is free.
  Product Details  
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Vendor specific/agnostic
Vendor agnostic
Standalone platform.
Vendor agnostic
  Services  
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24/7 support
Support included in base cost, Premium Support available
24x7 support - additional support levels are available.
Silver Support including consultative support
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Professional services
Professional Services engagements are available.
Proffesional services, kick-starts, and trainings available.
Professional services support is available
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  Virtualization/Private Cloud Support  
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VMware vSphere
Supported
vSphere 5.0 & above supported
Supported
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Microsoft Hyper-V
Supported
Supported via OpenStack
Supported
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OpenStack
Not currently supported (preview available)
Supported on Icehouse, Juno, Kilo, Liberty, Mitaka
Supported
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other
KVM and Xen Supported
Apache CloudStack
  Public Cloud Support  
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Amazon Web Services
Supported
Supported
Supported
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Google Cloud Platform
Cost comparisons only
Supported
Supported
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IBM Bluemix Cloud
Support for VMware on IBM Cloud
Supported (as private implementation)
Supported
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Microsoft Azure
Supported
Supported
Supported
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Oracle Cloud
not supported
Not Supported
not supported
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other
Cost modeling for Google Compute Engine, IBM SoftLayer and Rackspace
Rackspace, HP helion
Centurylink cloud, Rackspace
  Containers  
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Docker
Scripted Support
Supports Docker
Supported
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3rd Party container management
Supported
Supports Kubernetes
Supported
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Other
Scripted Support
Orchestration options available for CoreOS, Swarm and Mesos.
Not fully compatible
  Legacy/Brownfield Environments  
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Automatic discovery of legacy VMs
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Management of legacy cloud VMs
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Management of legacy private VMs
Supported
Yes
vSphere-only
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Import of OVA/OVF VM formats
Not supported (native tools can be used)
Yes
Through vSphere
  Migration  
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Cloud-to-cloud migration
Supported
Supported
Created, but not migrated
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  Administration  
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Multi-tenant support
Supported
Yes. Users can be managed locally or authenticated through LDAP/SAML.
Supported
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Published API
API published : click on details (i) for link
Extensive API support
Supported
  Configuration Management  
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Chef
Supported
Native support
Supported
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Puppet
Supported
Supported
Supported
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Ansible
Supported
Support for Ansible Tower
Supported
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SaltStack
Supported
Some integration available
Compatible
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Ability to patch managed systems
Supported using scripting
Yes
Supported
  Networking  
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SDN Support
Network Fencing isolation (Vmware only)
Supports Cloud SDN eg AWS APCs and limited private eg VMware
NSX Supported
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Public cloud networking
Supports operational views. Deployment limited to use of templates (eg cloudformations)
Yes
Extensive AWS network support
  User-Defined Actions  
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Conditional Actions
Supported
Yes
Rightscale Alert system
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Pre- and Post-Install Actions
Supported
Yes
Supported through "rightscripts"
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Scheduled Actions
Supported
Yes
Supported
  Orchestration & Workflow  
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Native Workflow
Supported
Yes
Supported
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3rd Party Orchestration
Supported via scripting framework
Supported through plugins
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Webhooks
Supported
Yes
  Third-Party Automation  
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ServiceNow
Supported
Yes
Supported
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3rd Party Automation
Supported via scripting framework
Supported through plugins
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CMDB integration
Supported
Yes - Scalr integrates with tools such as ServiceNow and Remedy through the Webhook system
Supported
  User-Defined Properties  
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Automatic hostname creation
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Configuration tags
Supported
Yes
Supported
  Placement  
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Best Execution Venue - Performance
Supported
Planned
Through scripting or workflow
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Best Execution Venue - Security
Supported
Planned
Through scripting or workflow
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Best Execution Venue - Cost
Supported
Planned
Supported
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Runtime policies
Supported
Yes
Supported
  Provisioning  
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Bare-metal provisioning
Supported with use of 3rd party PXE boot solutions
Yes - via a connector such as OpenStack
Manage but not provision
  Reconfiguration & Expiration  
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Ability to change VM configuration
Supported
Yes
Supported throught scripting or integration with other tools
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Live change VM resources
Supported
Depends on the platform
VM resources can be changed on demand where it makes sense and is supported by the OS and underlying hypervisor / cloud platform
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Scheduled expiration
Supported
Yes
Supported
  Uptime Management  
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Continuous Infrastructure Testing
Supported
Limited
Contains built in monitoring for VM health. Specific testing can be built into workflow
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HA/DR features
Supported
Hosted apps
Supported
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  Service Portal  
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End-User Self-Service
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Service Catalog
Supported
Yes
Supported
  Localization  
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Support for multiple languages
English Only
Only via partners.
  Built-In Features  
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Application-centric deployment
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Approval workflow
Supported
Yes
Can be supported via ServiceNow integration
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Auto-scaling
Supported in AWS
Yes
Supported
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Bursting to public cloud
Partially supported
Yes
Supported via blueprints
  Quotas  
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Quotas
Supported
Yes
Supported
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  Cost Management/Chargeback  
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Cloud expense reporting
Supported
Yes
3-year usage reporting
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Consumption-based billing
Supported
Supported
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Cost allocation
Supported
Yes
Supported
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User-defined rates
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Multiple currency support
Supported
No
  Third-Party Integration  
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Integration with financial mgmt tools
Supported via API
Through Webhooks and tagging.
Contains an Analytics tool and can integration with other tools via API
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  Inventory  
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Real-time environment inventory
Supported
Yes
Supported
  Automatic Updates  
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Discover & update changed systems
Supported
On initial import
vSphere-only
  Job reporting  
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Detailed job status reporting
Supported
Yes, as part of general logging
Supported
  Multi-Tenancy  
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Reporting by customer
Supported
Yes
Supported
  Uptime Management  
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SLA reporting
Supported
RightScale has no built in concept of Service Management, but can be integrated into Service Management tools via API
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  Group management  
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Multi-level support
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Role-based access controls
Supported
Yes
Supported
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User-defined groups
Supported
Yes
Supported
  Identity Management  
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Active Directory support
Supported
Yes
Supported
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LDAP support
Supported
Yes
Supported
  Security Features  
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Credential management
Supported
Yes
Managed SSH Login
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Key vaulting
Supported
Stores user API and SSH keys
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Support for single signon
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Logging/auditing of administrative access
Supported
General logging
Partially supported
  Third-Party Integration  
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Integration with enterprise security tools
Supported via script
Integration available through Webhooks and orchestration engine
Requires custom programming
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  Third-Party Integration  
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Jenkins integration
Supported
Yes
Supported
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GitHub integration
Custom integration scripting
Supported for Chef cookbooks
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other
Supported
Scalr can work with any code repo.
  PaaS Capabilities  
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Cloud Foundry support
Support for PKS
Yes
Supported
  Usability Features  
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Diagramming
Not Supported
No
RightScale follows an infrastructure as code paradigm
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Reusable service blueprints
Supported
Yes
Templates and images
  VM management  
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Out of band console
Supported
All VM access is in band
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Built-in SSH access to VMs
Supported
Yes
Supported
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Snapshotting
Supported
Yes, for DB and storage
Supported
  Community Support  
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User Contribution Site
Forum Only
Yes
RightScale "Cloud Gems" Git repositories

Matrix Score

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  • Embotics
  • Scalr
  • RightScale
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