Stratusphere™ FinOps and AWS Trusted Advisor are two prominent tools for AWS cost optimization. They help you to understand your cloud usage and resources. In this article, we deep dive into them both so you can see how they can help you to improve your AWS spending.
Stratusphere™ FinOps was designed to support large enterprises and private equity firms to optimize their costs. Information is organized for rapid prioritization, so you can see the most low-effort value creation opportunity, and see what elements are performing best.
For private equity firms, you can analyze your dashboards across your portfolio, and how different PortCos performing relative to one another and over time.
AWS Trusted Advisor is a native AWS tool that focuses on cost optimization in the cloud. It improves performance and security for each AWS account. It provides you with automated alerts, recommendations, and dashboard summaries.
AWS Trusted Advisor uses 5 pillars to improve your infrastructure and give you recommendations:
AWS Trusted Advisor does all security-related checks, including:
The tool also makes sure that all your resources are working well. It checks:
You can use AWS Trusted Advisor to keep an eye on costs with:
Check your resiliency and workloads using Trusted Advisor, these include:
This dashboard gives you a color-coded graph telling you how much of your provisioned resources you’re using. When you’ve used 80% it flags that resource for you and gives you the breakdown of the limits.
All of these pillars are highlighted in the graphs in your Trusted Advisor Organizational dashboard, also known as the TAO dashboard.
There are 2 key differences between Stratusphere™ FinOps reports and AWS Trusted Advisor: Scope and Prioritization.
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Stratusphere™ FinOps |
Focus on FinOps with cloud cost reports |
Customized recommendations based on Level of Effort |
To improve cost optimization |
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AWS Trusted Advisor |
Reports on the five pillars |
Manually read data to infer next steps |
Have a broad understanding on your AWS account. |
Scope: Stratusphere™ focuses on FinOps, it shows you your cloud cost reports. AWS Trusted Advisor gives you reports on their 5 pillars - security, performance, cost, fault tolerance, and service quotas.
Prioritization: Stratusphere™ gives you the priority of improvements based on the Level of Effort needed for each change. AWS Trusted Advisor leaves it up to you to decide your priorities.
Both tools analyze your AWS usage, based on the tools that you’re using.
The key difference are the insights that Stratusphere™ provides you, such as “Where are my biggest opportunity to save costs?” with a clear, easy to understand graph.
Stratusphere™ integrates easily with AWS. You can connect all your AWS accounts to it. The first dashboard takes 24 hours for the data to populate.
You can choose to integrate AWS Trusted Advisor with each workload.
Stratusphere™ FinOps and AWS Trusted Advisor has different focuses, here we look at the pros and cons.
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Reduce cloud costs and gain transparency across all your AWS accounts. Stratusphere’s easy-to-understand dashboards and prioritized action items to manage your cloud efficiency.
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