AWS Cost Management is a suite of products that work together to assist with cloud cost management and is “good enough” for many AWS users. However, they can’t support large complex deployments or help automate your cloud cost savings like Digiusher can.

Features	Digiusher	AWS Cost Management
Solution
Deployment Option	SaaS, Dedicated Managed Hosting & Self-Hosting	SaaS
Multi-Cloud Support	AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba (OCI – Coming Soon!)	AWS only
On-Prem Cost Monitoring	Kubernetes Only	NONE
Pricing Model	Fixed Annual Subscription Fees	Usage Based (Free for small usage)
Enterprise Pricing Model with Unlimited Spend, Accounts, Users, Subscriptions	Enterprise Annual Subscription Available	NOT AVAILABLE
Cost Visibility
Cost Perspectives / Chargeback / Showback	YES	YES
Cost Categories / Dynamic Bucketing	YES	NO
Kubernetes Cost Allocation (By Node/Cluster/Workload)	YES	NO
Multi-Cloud Cost Visualizations	YES	NO
Databricks Cost Visibility	YES	NO
Snowflakes Cost Visibility	Coming Soon!	NO
Import 3rd Party Costs	Coming Soon!	NO
Out-of-the-Box Dashboards	YES	YES
Custom BI Dashboards	YES	NO
Forecasting	YES	YES
Cloud Inventory	YES	YES
Cost Optimization
Anomaly Detection	YES	YES
Spot Orchestration	YES (through Partner)	NO
Idle Resource Management	YES	NO
Cluster Orchestration on Spot Instances	YES (through Partner)	NO
AWS Compute Recommendations	YES	YES
Azure Compute Recommendations	YES	NO
GCP Compute Recommendations	YES	NO
RI / SP Planning and Recommendations	YES	YES
Governance
Budgets	YES	PARTIAL
Alerts	YES	YES
Reporting	YES	YES
Administrative
Multi-Currency Support	YES	NO
Role-based Access Control	YES	NO
Full Audit Trails	YES	NO
Training	YES	YES
Documentation	YES	YES
Support Available	8X5 through Email and Support Website	24X7 Available
MSP-Specific
Single Dashboard to manage multiple clients	YES	NO
Billing Engine	Coming Soon!	NO

Summary: 

AWS Cost Management is a free or usage based suite of products that includes AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Cost Categories, AWS Budgets, AWS Trusted Advisor, and AWS Cost Anomaly Detection. Together these products help AWS users understand their cloud spend and provide basic support for rightsizing AWS EC2 instances. For many organizations with small cloud deployments, these tools will work well enough for their needs. While free initially, there are usage limits to many of the AWS Cost Management features, which even small to medium-sized cloud environments can easily exceed. 

Larger organizations with multi-cloud environments across Azure and GCP, as well as cloud-native Kubernetes architectures, will be left needing to find other tools to understand and optimize those cloud costs. Even within a pure AWS environment, you’ll need to leverage multiple AWS tools in order to get the functionality fully built into Digiusher, and you’ll still lack the automation that Digiusher delivers to save you up to 70% on your overall cloud bills.

Multi-cloud Cost Visibility

With over 60% of organizations having some or all of their workloads spread across multiple cloud providers, it’s critical that cloud cost management tools have the ability to track and report on all multi-cloud costs for an organization. As expected, AWS Cost Management tools only support AWS infrastructure.

Digiusher provides granular cost visibility for AWS, Azure, and GCP, as well as Kubernetes deployments on these cloud providers as well as on-premises, all delivered in easy-to-consume reports and dashboards customized to your users’ business needs. 

Kubernetes Support

Cloud-native deployments depend on Kubernetes to deliver scalable and powerful services that can be deployed on shared infrastructure. The challenge, though, is getting the full picture of what portion of shared clusters are consumed by different teams or applications. AWS Cost Explorer can provide a single monolithic charge for your EKS/ECS cluster spend, but what it can’t do is break down those shared costs into something usable, and it won’t give you any recommendations for optimizing those costs.

Digiusher not only gives you deep insights into shared cluster costs, but we also provide detailed rightsizing recommendations at the workload and node pool levels. We can also help automate your cluster autoscaling to take advantage of spot instances via our Cluster Orchestrator feature, saving up to 90% off on cluster costs though our partner tool.

Savings Plans and Reservations

AWS provides significant savings for their customers who pre-purchase their compute instances (reserved instances) or commit to an overall level of spend (savings plans). They even do a good job of providing RI purchase recommendations based on your cloud spend. However, what they don’t do is give you any recommendations on savings plan purchases.

Digiusher gives you detailed recommendations for both reserved instances as well as savings plans.

Cost Anomaly Detection

One minor configuration error can result in massive bill shock if it’s not caught and addressed quickly. AWS Cost Anomaly Detection (yet another tool) does provide the ability to set up cost anomaly alerts across several different dimensions. However, the alerts are most likely not as granular as you need them to be, and they have hard limits on how many alerts can be configured per account. There’s also a challenge in that they require admins to do their homework to determine what their anomaly thresholds should be, which can lead to either missed cost anomalies or so many anomaly reports that true alerts are lost in the noise.

Digiusher cost anomaly detection uses multiple statistical analysis methods to get to the most accurate cost anomaly alerts, cutting out the noise that other tools create. Our alerts lead your engineers exactly to the source, and we can provide root cause analysis for actions taken upstream in your development pipeline that may have led to the cost spikes.

Network Cost Visibility

AWS does not provide any clear visibility into data transfer costs in an interactive manner, thereby, making it a very hard for engineers to unlock architecture and design bottlenecks.

With Digiusher, its a cakewalk with built-in dashboards and navigation edited to unlock the data transfers

Enterprise Offering:

Large enterprises, Regulated industries and public sector firms needs to have a secure offering that could run within their own environment under their control. Therefore, Digiusher offers a self-hosted unlimited Enterprise offering in its pricing model making it highly beneficial and apt for such customers. For details visit our pricing page.

Once you hit hard limits, AWS Cost Management is a usage based solution.