Sold by: VMware Tanzu CloudHealth
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VMware Tanzu CloudHealth has helped more than 20,000 organizations worldwide make sense of their cloud data, optimize and control spend, and enhance their cloud management practices.
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Overview
Operating in the cloud enables developers to make better applications faster, which creates better customer experiences and ultimately drives more revenue for your company. But this speed and agility come at a cost; Businesses are challenged with loss of control over resources and constantly climbing cloud bills.
VMware Tanzu CloudHealth gives businesses complete visibility into their multi-cloud spend, tailored recommendations for optimizing costs and resources, and a dynamic policy engine for governing their environment.
Make Sense of Your Cloud Data: Get visibility into a rich set of data for managing your multi-cloud environment. Analyze your infrastructure by dynamic business groups and benefit from reporting that is fully custom in nature.
Optimize and Control Your Cloud Spend: Improve resource utilization and realize cost savings with tailored recommendations. Drive continuous optimization with governance policies and automated actions that execute changes in your cloud environment.
Enhance Your Cloud Management Practices: Grow your cloud expertise with a proven framework to progress through your cloud management maturity journey.
Highlights
- Cost Visibility: Report multi-cloud spend by unique business grouping and drive adherence to budgets with accurate chargeback/showback.
- Resource Optimization: Rightsize your cloud infrastructure to eliminate wasted spending, and get sophisticated recommendations for purchasing and managing AWS Reserved Instances and AWS Savings Plans.
- Cloud Governance: Implement policies and automation to keep your environment continuously optimized. Terminate unnecessary resources, adhere to budgets, detect anomalies, and reduce business risk.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
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CH150K | Manage up to $150K of monthly AWS spend. Addl fees above $150K/mo. | $45,000.00 |
CH300K | Manage up to $300K of monthly AWS spend. Addl fees above $300K/mo. | $90,000.00 |
CH500K | Manage up to $500K of monthly AWS spend. Addl fees above $500K/mo. | $150,000.00 |
Dimension | Cost/unit |
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Overage Over Contractual Amount | $0.03 |
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Multi-Cloud Cost Visibility
Provides visibility into multi-cloud spend with reporting capabilities organized by dynamic business groups and supports accurate chargeback and showback mechanisms.
Resource Optimization and Rightsizing
Delivers tailored recommendations for infrastructure rightsizing, AWS Reserved Instances purchasing, and AWS Savings Plans management to eliminate wasted spending.
Policy-Based Governance Engine
Implements a dynamic policy engine with automated actions to enforce governance policies, terminate unnecessary resources, and maintain continuous optimization across cloud environments.
Infrastructure Analysis and Reporting
Enables analysis of infrastructure across multi-cloud environments with fully customizable reporting and dynamic business group segmentation for comprehensive data management.
Anomaly Detection and Cost Control
Detects spending anomalies, enforces budget adherence, and provides automated mechanisms to control and reduce cloud-related business risks.
Cost Optimization Engine
Advanced cost query engine with hundreds of industry and proprietary best practice checks that assess and optimize cloud environments, including automated recommendations for Savings Plans and Reserved Instances to achieve 30% or more cost reduction.
Security and Compliance Monitoring
Delivers dozens of security best practice configuration checks and monitors cloud infrastructure compliance against 36 different standards including HIPAA, PCI DSS, CIS, and NIST, with automated remediation workflows and seven years of audit-ready reports.
Resource Utilization Analysis
Provides visibility on provisioned cloud resources with API connections to cloud providers for deep dive reporting, enabling right-sizing and rebalancing through customer-defined best practice checks that track CPU, network, and memory utilization parameters.
Multi-Tenant Billing and Chargeback
Advanced billing engine with flexible pricing options including usage-based and custom rate structures, featuring tag mapping and tag splitting capabilities to automate cost allocation across distributed cost centers and business units.
Agentless Cloud Visibility Platform
SaaS-based solution with intuitive business intelligence dashboards and customizable drill-down reports that surface cloud service usage data across enterprise, departments, teams, projects, and individual users with granular role-based access control.
Multi-Cloud Cost Visibility
Native integrations across AWS and other cloud providers with direct integration using secure cross-account IAM role with read-only access to Cost Explorer for comprehensive cost ingestion
Cost Allocation and Tagging
Detailed cost allocation capabilities using tags and metadata for granular cost attribution across teams and resources
Cost Forecasting
Forecasting functionality to project future cloud, SaaS, and AI spending patterns
Programmatic Automation
Robust API access and Terraform provider for infrastructure-as-code automation, along with Automated FinOps Agent and MCP support
Collaborative Analytics Dashboards
Multi-team dashboards designed for engineering, finance, and FinOps teams to analyze and monitor cloud spend collaboratively
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Customer reviews
Pravin A.
Powerful Multi-Cloud FinOps Governance, but Sync Lag and Complex UI Slow You Down
Reviewed on Oct 12, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most about Tanzu CloudHealth is that it serves as a single source of truth for multi-cloud FinOps governance. When you’re juggling different billing logic and native cost tools across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, it becomes extremely difficult to keep a consistent, standardized budgeting baseline. CloudHealth addresses this by bringing all of that disparate billing metadata together into unified dashboard views.
The feature I depend on most is Perspectives. It allows us to dynamically allocate cloud infrastructure spend directly to specific engineering teams, projects, or cost centers. As a result, it removes much of the usual guesswork from internal chargeback reporting and helps create real financial accountability across the organization.
The feature I depend on most is Perspectives. It allows us to dynamically allocate cloud infrastructure spend directly to specific engineering teams, projects, or cost centers. As a result, it removes much of the usual guesswork from internal chargeback reporting and helps create real financial accountability across the organization.
What do you dislike about the product?
What frustrates me most about Tanzu CloudHealth is the noticeable lag in data synchronization. When you’re managing massive multi-cloud environments, real-time cost visibility is critical, yet billing metrics often suffer from sync delays. That latency makes it very hard to spot live cost spikes before they blow past a daily threshold.
On top of that, the web client interface has grown increasingly complex and harder to navigate over time. Finding advanced reporting configurations, or even adjusting simple notification profiles, can mean hunting through deeply buried sub-menus, which really hurts efficiency during routine auditing tasks.
On top of that, the web client interface has grown increasingly complex and harder to navigate over time. Finding advanced reporting configurations, or even adjusting simple notification profiles, can mean hunting through deeply buried sub-menus, which really hurts efficiency during routine auditing tasks.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The biggest problem VMware Tanzu CloudHealth solves for us is the fragmented chaos of multi-cloud billing. Before, trying to manually aggregate cost data from different operating models across AWS, Azure, and GCP was practically impossible. CloudHealth brings all of that information together into a single control plane.
The most direct benefit to my day-to-day workflow is stronger financial accountability. With custom Perspectives, we can automatically map specific tag data and infrastructure costs directly to the business units, developers, or projects responsible for them. That removes the guesswork from internal chargebacks and helps prevent teams from overspending without realizing it.
The most direct benefit to my day-to-day workflow is stronger financial accountability. With custom Perspectives, we can automatically map specific tag data and infrastructure costs directly to the business units, developers, or projects responsible for them. That removes the guesswork from internal chargebacks and helps prevent teams from overspending without realizing it.
Akshay P.
Great Cloud Visibility, But the Dashboards Take Time to Learn
Reviewed on Oct 06, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like the visibility it gives into cloud usage and overall environment health. Having the information in one place makes it easier to spot issues, understand usage trends, and keep an eye on resources.
What do you dislike about the product?
The amount of information can feel a bit overwhelming at first. It takes some time to get familiar with the dashboards and understand which metrics are most useful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CloudHealth gives us a better view of cloud usage and helps identify where resources are being used. It makes it easier to track costs, compare usage, and find areas where we can improve resource usage.
Santosh-Akkula
High availability has protected revenue, but integration and support still need improvement
Reviewed on Sep 28, 2026
Review provided by PeerSpot
What is our primary use case?
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is used for our complete e-commerce platform. We predominantly use VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth for high availability systems. We do not use it for cost considerations because we operate as a private cloud where cost remains constant.
How has it helped my organization?
Availability has been one of the biggest improvements. We run it in our private cloud and are able to manage it cost effectively.
For us, daily active users and abandonment rate are critical metrics. If the daily active user numbers are very high, we perform well. The second factor is our abandonment rates. If a customer gets disconnected during a shopping experience, that represents a revenue loss for us. We see that at a very low level, but these are factors where whatever drops happen that are beyond VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth.
What is most valuable?
When you look at it, there is no significant difference between upstream Kubernetes and VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth. However, the support provided is very good when it comes to systems. All the peripheral services that they provide is something we value greatly.
Since we operate in a very regulated industry, security becomes very important for us. I have not seen significant slippage from a security standpoint.
There are two fundamental things. Availability and reporting have become standard. There are two major reasons we are very interested in VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth. First, the observability we can build into VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth allows us to determine what is happening before any service fails, and we are positioned to fix things preventively. We are able to maintain availability in terms that if one of the node clusters goes down, we can quickly respin another cluster so our sessions do not fail and we do not have a revenue loss.
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth provides value, but we do not look at it very objectively to be precise. What we have done is built something over VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth which does monitoring and everything for us. If you look at VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth, it is useful but not exactly in the terms we are interested in.
What needs improvement?
One of the things we struggle with today is the integration between VMWare and our operating systems. That is where the flaws happen. We are a Red Hat shop. The integration between both needs to be much stronger. Not just Red Hat, but any operating system, they need to get it right. The second thing is that the NSX layer needs to become stronger.
For how long have I used the solution?
I started working with VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth about seven years ago.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate stability at nine and a half.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate scalability at nine.
How are customer service and support?
I would give customer service a rating of eight and a half.
Support can always improve. For them, it is a ticket. For us, it is a lifeline. That boundary they need to visualize and provide support to that extent.
How was the initial setup?
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is pretty easy to install. Configuration takes a little time, but installation is much easier.
Every business has different logic. Let me give you an example. When we are having very high demand during festive seasons for a few hours, when our e-commerce platform gives special offers, the queues build up very fast. At this moment, VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth needs to be configured so that new sessions are automatically handed to a new set of worker nodes rather than waiting for human intervention. Building that logic is very important. At the same time, when you see sessions getting dropped after the sales, we cannot just kill the infrastructure instantaneously. That requires a set of rules to be built and models that need to be developed so that we are protected and our infrastructure does not fail.
What was our ROI?
We are able to see value. What would eventually happen is we run two versions: one is VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth, and we also run upstream Kubernetes. The moment we are able to stabilize that platform, I do not see a reason we will be paying heavily to VMWare.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Setup costs are very expensive.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
At this moment, VMWare is running ahead of other competitors, but I see the gap closing very fast.
What other advice do I have?
I used to do both. I used to be a partner of VMWare, selling VMWare, and I also used to consume VMWare.
I currently do not work extensively in that space. I mostly have moved into AI, but we use VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth as a foundation.
I am a consumer of VMWare. I use vRealize and I use VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth. I would give an overall rating of seven to my experience.
Nima T.
Centralized Cloud Cost Management with Room for UI Improvement
Reviewed on Sep 27, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like VMware Tanzu CloudHealth for its centralized visibility into cloud costs and usage, which really stands out to me. The dashboards and reporting features make it simple to see where our cloud spend is going, identify underutilized resources, and track costs by team or environment. I also appreciate the cost allocation and budgeting features, as they help us control spending and make better decisions about resource usage. The cost allocation helps us understand spending by team, project, or environment, and the dashboards give us a centralized view of cloud usage and costs. The utilization insights feature is valuable for identifying resources that are underused or unnecessarily expensive, making it easier to control cloud spending, find optimization opportunities, and support day-to-day cloud governance.
What do you dislike about the product?
One area that could be improved is the user interface and reporting experience. Some dashboards and reports can feel complex to navigate, especially for new users. It would also be helpful to have simpler customization options, more intuitive cost insights, and faster reporting for large cloud environments. I'd like to see a simpler and more intuitive dashboard layout, with commonly used cost and usage metrics easier to access. For reporting, more drag-and-drop customization, flexible filters, and easier report creation would be useful. It would also help to have faster loading for large datasets and clearer explanations of cost changes, so teams can quickly understand the reason behind spending increases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
VMware Tanzu CloudHealth solves cloud cost visibility and optimization issues, helping me track spending, identify underutilized resources, allocate costs, and improve cloud governance and decision-making.
Anonymous
Visibility and Cost Management Champ, Needs Better Onboarding
Reviewed on Sep 27, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I use VMware Tanzu CloudHealth mainly to keep cloud spend under control and get visibility across our environment. The cost visibility and budget forecasting are amazing features. I appreciate the reporting flexibility and having multi-cloud management in one pane.
What do you dislike about the product?
The onboarding process for VMware Tanzu CloudHealth requires a lot of effort, particularly in getting tagging and account structures right. Setting it up correctly to match our organization's needs was not easy, which can make the initial configuration feel like a big time sink.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use VMware Tanzu CloudHealth to control cloud spend and gain visibility across environments. Its cost visibility and budget forecasting are amazing, and the reporting flexibility allows us to manage multiple clouds in one view.