CLOUD MANAGEMENT

Cloud Cruiser Review

Product Snapshot

Product Pricing

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Technology

Platform is a SaaS solution and requires no additional hardware for installation.

Customer Focus

Vendor works with businesses of all sizes and across multiple industries.

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About Cloud Cruiser

Cloud Cruiser cloud management software that providers companies with tools to meter, track and manage cloud usage and cost. The platform provides users with optimization functionality including what-if modeling, decision insights and reserved instance advisors.

The software is equipped with analytic tools including custom analytic views, self-service reporting tools, consumption analytic models and multi-dimensional budgets and alert settings. Additionally, the platform is designed with configuration settings including push-button collectors, role-based permission settings, data normalization tools and smart tagging capabilities.

About Cloud Cruiser

Cloud Cruiser was founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Jose, California, per 2015-2016 press releases; the company's current status could not be verified.

Cloud Cruiser Key Features

Push-button collectors for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud (with earlier versions also supporting VMware and Windows Azure Pack); note the product's current status could not be verified from live sources
Cost saving identification tools
Fact-based modeling for future state prediction
Visualization and a tabular reporting tools
Available insights include underutilized VMs, overutilized VMs, AWS reserved instance candidate, Azure department cost increase, application cost increase, region cost increase, service cost increase, product cost increase and AWS EBS insights

Cloud Cruiser FAQ

How much does Cloud Cruiser cost?

The vendor does not publish pricing for Cloud Cruiser. Contact the vendor directly for a quote.

Who is Cloud Cruiser best suited for?

Per the vendor's 2015 messaging, businesses of all sizes that need to track hybrid cloud usage and costs, with an emphasis on enterprises and service providers running AWS, Microsoft Azure, Windows Azure Pack, VMware and OpenStack. The 2016 SaaS release was aimed at enterprises and MSPs/VARs managing IaaS spend across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.

How long does it take to implement Cloud Cruiser?

For the 2015 CloudSmart-Now packaged offering, the vendor claimed organizations could be up and running in five days using pre-configured templates and collectors. The 2016 Cloud Cruiser 16 SaaS application was positioned as faster still, deployable from the Azure Marketplace in minutes and operationalized in under an hour for the hands-on lab experience. Note these are vendor claims from 2015-2016.

How easy is Cloud Cruiser to learn and use?

Per 2016 vendor statements, the Cloud Cruiser 16 SaaS application was designed to be more prescriptive out of the box than the company's earlier platform, which relied on a blank-slate approach and a relatively heavy services and training component. It included rich out-of-the-box reporting, personalized dashboards, budgets and forecasting. These are vendor claims and could not be tested in this research pass.

Last reviewed: October 28, 2026