Azure Cost Management Reviews

We use this solution to help with setting up our yearly budget. We look at how much we are currently using on a monthly basis how and close we are to meeting the monthly budget. If we find that we are going over then it helps to adjust the yearly budget.

We also look at what resources have been used more extensively in the current month as opposed to last. The dashboard allows us to make these comparisons. From here, we can optimize resources and reduce costs. In the end, we also develop new resources.

Ideally, we can look ahead to see what we can expect by making changes to certain resources. This is done by looking back at previous months and seeing what the effects were for other changes.

Our second use case has to do with projecting profitability by looking at trends. We are looking at one-year relationships to search for tending patterns. 

The most valuable feature is that it helps us to better forecast and reduce costs.

I would like to see better customization.

We have been using Azure Cost Management for the past year. More generally, we have been exploring Azure technologies for the past three years.

This a stable solution and we have rarely encountered issues. Sometimes, it takes a little bit longer than usual to generate our reports but it could be a website or network issue.

We don't manage the solution so we don't know about the scalability. Internally, only our IT management team uses it.

The initial setup is straightforward. It is not complex, although it takes some time to understand.

I would rate this solution a six out of ten.

We were looking for cloud cost management but also the ability to have insight for all our deployment infrastructure.

Microsoft Azure Cloud Cost Management is easy to use and we have a lot of insights about all of our goals. It gives us integration which we are using for our extra functionality. It is quite intuitive. It's easy to work with.

For us, it only works for one provider. So we need to be more of a hybrid solution for any cloud. If it worked better with other cloud providers it would be better. I would like it to give you more. Not only a cost management review. I would like to see more insights into our cloud infrastructure. We use metrics like CPU, RAM and application utilization. So it could be good to have something like that. The interface is ok, but it could use some improvement.

We have been using Microsoft Azure Cloud Cost Management for two years.

Microsoft Azure Cloud Cost Management is scalable. It easily tells you how you should change it. It gives recommendations you should do for building and for reducing costs.

I have liked the technical support offered by Microsoft Azure Cloud Cost Management. They have been pretty good. They usually work pretty quickly with the customer. They have acquired a large range of variety. There could be something I want to accomplish that is not working, they take it into account and they apply it in the solution quickly.

The pricing is good. It's a native solution from the cloud. So I think it's good.

I would rate the Microsoft Azure Cloud Cost Management an eight out of ten.

We use Azure Cost Management to see how much we are spending as well as how much the client is spending. That is the only use case for Azure Cost Management.

The features that I have found most valuable, are the trend analysis and the budgetary trigger. It is very good and it gives good data. It does what it is supposed to do.

I would like to have more granularity of the different services that we have. 

I have been working on Azure Cost Management for six years now.

Azure Cost Management works seamlessly. No bugs, glitches or regressions at all.

When it comes to scalability, you can only look at the costs that you are incurring for your Azure subscription. And there is no need to scale, if you ask me. It just gives you the cost rate.

I know this program very well, so we don't have to reach out to Microsoft. But when we do run into an issue that we cannot resolve, we reach out to them or email them or create a support ticket. They usually respond within a day, so we haven't faced any challenges with the technical support.

The initial setup is really straightforward and it works right out of the box. There is no complexity to it.

I think the solution was free initially. I don't know if they have changed that yet. Since we are partners of Microsoft, we have a different kind of agreement with them.

My advice to others would be that they should use it. They should try it out - it's a very good solution, and it gives a very detailed analysis as your subscription costs.

I would like the developers to add more features about migration, like how much it would cost to migrate from, let's say, AWS to Azure. That would be great.

On a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is the worst and 10 is the best, I rate Azure Cost a good 9.

We use the public, private, and hybrid deployment models of this solution. Our primary use cases of this solution are for cost management, performance, cost analysts, cost alerts, and budget recommendations.

The advisor recommendations feature is the most valuable feature. It helps set your environment in a clean state.

Self-healing could be a nice addition to this solution. It would be nice if they had self-healing. 

It would be good if they could introduce connections to other clouds. It would be good to connect to AWS and Oracle cloud.

It's rock-solid, it's absolutely stable. 

This solution can manage your whole infrastructure across the hybrid and private clouds. It scales really well. We are a distributor of this solution. We have around 3,000 customers. 

We do have plans to increase usage. 

It's a free product. It doesn't need much support, there is a lot of documentation.

The setup is straightforward. As soon as you deploy something in Azure, Cost Management is also automatically deployed. It's there by default. 

It's free out of the box. 

The biggest lesson I have learned from this solution is that free tools are a must. They're great. 

I would rate it a ten out of ten. 

I use the solution for personal use.

The dashboard is really useful.

The dashboard could be improved.

I have been using the solution for one year. I am using the latest version of the solution.

The tool is very stable. I rate the stability a ten out of ten.

The tool is scalable.

I use Azure OpenAI for some experiments.

I use the online web application. The maintenance is done automatically by the vendor.

The pricing is good.

I use the solution once a week. Overall, I rate the product a ten out of ten.

The product's licensing cost could be improved.

We have been using Azure Cost Management for three months.

I rate the platform's stability a nine out of ten.

We manage Azure Cost Management for one in our environment.

One of the executives from the technical support team has been helpful.

Positive

The initial setup process is easy. We have a team of ten engineers working on deployment and maintenance. It takes a long time to complete as it requires setting up multiple firewall rules.

I rate Azure Cost Management a nine out of ten.