Pump vs CloudHealth by Broadcom: feature-by-feature summary

Pump includes all 25 capabilities in this comparison. CloudHealth by Broadcom offers 17 of 25. CloudHealth by Broadcom does not offer: Free forever plan, Autopilot continuous monitoring, Modernization recommendations, Kubernetes auto-scaling, Zero lock-in period, DeepScan technology, Overcommitment insurance (Pump-Insured), Dedicated support staff.

Cloud Savings

• Free forever plan — Pump: Yes. CloudHealth by Broadcom: No. Not offered; no public free tier, quote-based enterprise contracts only.

• Commitment planner — Pump: Yes. CloudHealth by Broadcom: Yes. Provides RI/Savings Plan purchase recommendations and modeling tools.

• Idle instance detection — Pump: Yes. CloudHealth by Broadcom: Yes. Flags underutilized and idle resources through rightsizing reports.

• Autopilot continuous monitoring — Pump: Yes. CloudHealth by Broadcom: No. Not offered: Savings Automator exchanges AWS Convertible RIs; new purchases require approval.

• Rightsizing — Pump: Yes. CloudHealth by Broadcom: Yes. Compares provisioned capacity to utilization and recommends downsizing or termination.

• Automatic budget alerts — Pump: Yes. CloudHealth by Broadcom: Yes. Sends notifications when spend approaches or exceeds budget thresholds.

• Modernization recommendations — Pump: Yes. CloudHealth by Broadcom: No. Not documented; rightsizing covers instance sizing, not architecture modernization.

• Kubernetes auto-scaling — Pump: Yes. CloudHealth by Broadcom: No. Not offered; provides K8s cost and rightsizing reports without a scaling engine.

• Zero lock-in period — Pump: Yes. CloudHealth by Broadcom: No. Not offered; standard contracts run 12, 24, or 36 months with overage charges.

Cloud Visibility

• 100% virtual tagging coverage — Pump: Yes. CloudHealth by Broadcom: Yes. Perspectives use tags and account metadata to build cost-allocation groups.

• Single-lens global overview — Pump: Yes. CloudHealth by Broadcom: Yes. Provides dashboards and Pulse Reports summarizing spend across connected clouds.

• Customizable reports — Pump: Yes. CloudHealth by Broadcom: Yes. Flex Reports engine builds custom cost, usage, and asset reports via UI or GraphQL API.

• Kubernetes deployment reports — Pump: Yes. CloudHealth by Broadcom: Yes. Provides Kubernetes cost history and rightsizing reports by namespace and cluster.

• CFO-level financial forecasting — Pump: Yes. CloudHealth by Broadcom: Yes. Supports spend forecasting and budget tracking within cost reports.

• Top movers alerts — Pump: Yes. CloudHealth by Broadcom: Yes. Surfaces cost anomalies and variance through reporting dashboards.

• Multi-channel notifications — Pump: Yes. CloudHealth by Broadcom: Yes. Sends policy and budget notifications via configured channels.

• Annotations & team tagging — Pump: Yes. CloudHealth by Broadcom: Yes. Supports custom tagging, cost reallocation rules, and Perspective groupings.

• DeepScan technology — Pump: Yes. CloudHealth by Broadcom: No. Not offered; CloudHealth has no equivalent named waste-detection scanner.

• Multi-cloud support — Pump: Yes. CloudHealth by Broadcom: Yes. Supports AWS, Azure, GCP, and Alibaba Cloud, plus VMware private cloud via Aria Operations.

• Overcommitment insurance (Pump-Insured) — Pump: Yes. CloudHealth by Broadcom: No. Not offered; no no-loss or insurance guarantee on any CloudHealth module.

Cloud Security

• Team and product permissions — Pump: Yes. CloudHealth by Broadcom: Yes. Supports role-based authorizer/approver chains for policy actions.

• Automatic budget alerts — Pump: Yes. CloudHealth by Broadcom: Yes. Notifies teams when projected spend crosses budget thresholds.

• Multi-channel alerts — Pump: Yes. CloudHealth by Broadcom: Yes. Supports email, Slack, Jira Cloud, and webhook notification routing.

• Dedicated support staff — Pump: Yes. CloudHealth by Broadcom: No. Not offered directly; support and sales route through distributor Arrow Electronics, not Broadcom.

• Bank, med-tech and fin-tech compliance — Pump: Yes. CloudHealth by Broadcom: Yes. CloudHealth Secure State module covers SOC 2, CIS, NIST, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and GDPR frameworks.