CLOUDHEALTH

CloudHealth VMware Broadcom FinOps enterprise ~12000 customers.

Definition

CloudHealth features: (1) Multi-Cloud Cost Management: AWS + Azure + GCP + Oracle Cloud + IBM Cloud unified cost reporting + budget management + chargeback + showback. (2) Optimization Recommendations: EC2 + RDS + Azure VM + GCP Compute rightsizing, instance family modernization (older generation -> current generation), Spot Instances usage opportunities, idle resource detection. (3) Reserved Instances + Savings Plans Management: AWS RIs + SPs + Azure Reserved VM Instances + GCP CUDs portfolio management with recommendations + automated purchasing workflows + utilization tracking. (4) Governance: Policy-as-Code rules detect misconfigurations + cost-impacting issues (untagged resources, oversized RIs, idle resources), automated remediation workflows. (5) Security: multi-cloud security posture (S3 public buckets, security group rules, etc.) integrated with cost view. (6) FlexOrgs: multi-tenant organization hierarchy support large enterprises with many subsidiaries. Customers: Pinterest, Yelp, Dropbox, Pizza Hut, BCBS. Post-Broadcom acquisition 2023: focus VMware Cloud Foundation platform integration uncertain product direction.

Origin

CloudHealth Technologies founded 2012 in Boston by Joe Kinsella ; acquired VMware August 2018 ($500M) ; VMware acquired Broadcom November 2023 ($69B) ; ~12000 customers 2024.

Example in context

Pinterest CloudHealth deployment manages ~$200M annual AWS spend + GCP spend + Azure spend across 100+ accounts, rightsizing recommendations $20M annual savings, RI portfolio managed via CloudHealth automated purchases reducing waste 15%.

Related terms

• Cloudability — enterprise competitor.