We performed a comparison between Azure Cost Management and vRealize Business for Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Microsoft, VMware and others in Cloud Cost Management."The solution helps us diagnose and understand why some resources cost more so that we can fine-tune and reduce the cost."
"Microsoft's technical support is good."
"The most valuable feature is that it helps us to better forecast and reduce costs."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Cost Management is cost optimization."
"The most valuable aspect of Azure Cost Management for me is the cost-saving recommendations based on our usage patterns."
"The advisor recommendations feature is the most valuable feature. It helps set your environment in a clean state."
"We use the solution as a cost management tool to control the budget. It is easy to mange costs with the product."
"The product provides visibility into what we are consuming."
"It doesn't take long to develop an automation blueprint. You need about half an hour, and then you can install or deploy it on several systems. That was our first great advantage in the project because we urgently needed to deploy across many different systems."
"The most valuable feature is that it allows us to compare the billing between the clouds."
"I like the integration with other applications or vendors."
"The tool helps us to monitor the services provided to customers as a cloud provider. The product is a monitoring solution that helps customers pay for their utilization of services."
"The way the dashboard works with the main orchestrator to combine different types of cloud providers is helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the metering capability."
"The flexibility is the product's most valuable feature."
"This solution has made us aware that we are over-provisioning our virtual machines."
"The response time of customer support can be improved."
"Stability is an area in the solution that lacks in certain areas. So, it needs to be improved."
"It would be nice if they could introduce connections to other clouds. It would be good to connect to AWS and Oracle cloud."
"The dashboard could be improved."
"It would be beneficial if Azure Cost Management could automatically generate budget rules using AI insights, eliminating the need for manual configuration."
"The solution could use automatic emailing. That would help improve the product a lot, at least for our purposes."
"Optimization and scalability could be increased."
"It can be difficult to determine the cost associated with certain resources as it relies on a tagging progress. This means we need to drill down billing reports to highlight and fix missing tags."
"It's not always easy to find the information you need. You must have a lot of technical experience to find the right location for what you're implementing within the program."
"Better integration with other VMware toolsets would be beneficial."
"There are some kinks to resolve with the Web GUI user interface, as it freezes at times."
"The product needs some investment in configuration. I would like to see better and more optimized configuration in the tool's future releases."
"It would be a good idea for VMware to be compatible with the most popular orchestration tools in the market."
"I would like it if they could provide their customers with more qualified support."
"The knowledge base is not available for the engineers, which is something that needs to be improved."
"The solution's private cloud is much too expensive."
Azure Cost Management is ranked 2nd in Cloud Cost Management with 41 reviews while vRealize Business for Cloud is ranked 12th in Cloud Cost Management with 10 reviews. Azure Cost Management is rated 8.0, while vRealize Business for Cloud is rated 8.4. 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 vRealize Business for Cloud writes "Complete solution for automation, orchestration, and end-to-end lifecycle management". Azure Cost Management is most compared with IBM Turbonomic, VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, AWS Savings Plans, Cloudability and Zabbix, whereas vRealize Business for Cloud is most compared with VMware Aria Operations, VMware Aria Automation and VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth.
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