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We performed a comparison between Azure Cost Management and Cloudability based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Cloud Cost Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Azure Cost Management vs. Cloudability Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"The initial setup is straightforward.""The features that I have found most valuable, are the trend analysis and the budgetary trigger.""Cost management is the console's most valuable feature.""What I like the most about Azure Cost Management is that it's similar to a native service, and it has very well-defined product features, particularly if a customer is moving to Azure, then it gives proper insight in terms of compatibility and what benefits a customer can get from the solution.""Microsoft's technical support is good.""It is a fully scalable product with the potential to enhance our application and increase our servers. All cloud-based solutions are fully scalable.""We use Azure DevOps, and the product helps us understand the cost with the help of the Azure DevOps center.""The best thing about Azure Cost Management is the cost analysis functionality because it provides regular alerts."

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"It provides us visibility, then we can turn around and can give the leadership team more information, which we could not previously give them.""The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to create reports and dashboards.""The pricing isn't too expensive.""Transparency and visibility are the key features.""The most crucial feature in reducing my cloud costs has been the rightsizing recommendations, along with the dashboards that track reserved instance spending coverage and utilization. As for Cloudability's integration with our existing cloud infrastructure, it's not integrated directly into our AWS infrastructure but rather reads and pulls data from it, providing valuable insights and analysis for cost management.""Each user can have their own dashboard that they want to consume. Instead of having to share one dashboard for multiple users, you can create individual views for each user to view, and that view will contain only their own accounts, which allows for separation of data.""The tool helps us to resize on AWS correctly.""The sizing recommendation will look, and say, "You are only using this at 80%," then recommend a better fit for you."

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Cons
"The policy-based remediation is probably the biggest area where Azure is lacking and that's why we sell a lot of our technology to our customers.""It would be nice if they could introduce connections to other clouds. It would be good to connect to AWS and Oracle cloud.""The solution could improve its APIs to access the customer application.""The solution's technical support should be faster, more knowledgeable, and customer-friendly.""There are certainly areas for improvement in terms of labeling the inventory. That's because right now, we use a number of services. But it's difficult when you look at the billing limiters and how they are named. We can't correlate those names to the actual services there. So, I can't click on an item and see if I'm still using this service or not. So it just rolls up and gives me values and figures, but I can't really correlate them to actual services on the Azure platform.""The response time of customer support can be improved.""The tool's pricing should be made cheaper.""I haven't detected anything that needs improvement, but any solution could be improved."

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"In general, I feel Cloudability wasn't able to support many resources.""I would like the API functionality to improve. The update time after uploading data could also be improved.""Right now, what we're doing is we are manually putting the data in it, which is something which we don't like about Cloudability.""I wish there was a feature to temporarily remove certain recommendations from the list for teams that couldn't implement them immediately. I believe Cloudability could improve its automation functionality and enhance cost allocation modeling.""Cloudability needs to focus on more cloud providers.""The API is not well-documented. It is not straightforward and difficult to use. This needs to be improved, as it is very difficult for our developers to develop automation around it.""There is always room for improvement in education and training. We are not that mature in terms of our automation. It could help us identify where we could optimize in terms of build.""The dashboard needs to include more graphs per team to show what individual teams are spending in a given time period."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It's free out of the box."
  • "I think the solution was free initially."
  • "Based on the transitional cost we charge, it's not expensive, but could be better."
  • "The solution is free. It's part of having an Azure subscription."
  • "I give the solution's overall cost an eight out of ten."
  • "I rate the price of Azure Cost Management an eight out of ten."
  • "Customers do not need to pay for the product's license, and the product is free of cost."
  • "The tool's pricing is yearly."
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  • "We have seen ROI with the reserved instances, and having the ability to predict what reserved instances you can get. We can save tens of thousands of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in some cases."
  • "My team is one of the most expensive teams, and we look at it quite a bit. We have probably easily saved around $400,000 USD a year."
  • "It justifies the cost and is worth it."
  • "Cloudability is a bit expensive."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Gives visibility into the cost of cloud-based solutions.
    Top Answer:The product comes free. There is no cost associated with the product.
    Top Answer:The tool helps us to resize on AWS correctly.
    Top Answer:When the company opted for the solution a couple of years ago it was affordable.
    Top Answer:Cloudability needs to improve on data collection from cloud sources.
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    Also Known As
    Microsoft Azure Cost Management, Cloudyn
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    Overview

    Azure Cost Management empowers organizations to monitor cloud spend, drive organizational accountabilities, and optimize cloud efficiency so they can accelerate future cloud investments with confidence.

    Cloudability is a financial management tool for monitoring and analyzing every cloud expense across any organization. It brings transparency to how and where organizations spend money on cloud resources, giving them the power to reap the most value from cloud usage possible. It aggregates expenditures into accessible and comprehensive reports, helps identify new opportunities for reducing spend and increasing cloud efficiency, offers budget alerts and recommendations via SMS and email, provides APIs for connecting cloud billing and usage data to any business or financial system, and more.

    Sample Customers
    Quixey, Infomedia, Panaya, Wix.com, Mirabeau, Mi9, GetTaxi, Outsmart Studios, Bownty, BlazeMeter: The Load Testing Cloud, Irdeto, Effective Measure, Totango, Nextdoor, BranchOut, The BioTeam, Evolven, Netotiate, ClickSoftware
    Adobe, Uber, Pega, imgur, Pixable, Blackboard, Keboola, Avalara
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company25%
    Manufacturing Company15%
    Pharma/Biotech Company10%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Healthcare Company6%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm38%
    Computer Software Company25%
    Manufacturing Company25%
    Comms Service Provider13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Manufacturing Company12%
    Healthcare Company6%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise64%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise65%
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    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise29%
    Large Enterprise57%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise72%
    Buyer's Guide
    Azure Cost Management vs. Cloudability
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Azure Cost Management vs. Cloudability and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Azure Cost Management is ranked 2nd in Cloud Cost Management with 41 reviews while Cloudability is ranked 6th in Cloud Cost Management with 11 reviews. Azure Cost Management is rated 8.0, while Cloudability is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Azure Cost Management writes "A good, but limited cost information solution with strong analytics but requiring more flexibility in its reporting functionality". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cloudability writes "An excellent solution for dealing with multiple clouds". Azure Cost Management is most compared with IBM Turbonomic, VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, AWS Savings Plans, Zabbix and Datadog, whereas Cloudability is most compared with VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, IBM Turbonomic, Densify, Harness and Spot Eco. See our Azure Cost Management vs. Cloudability report.

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