2019-09-29T07:27:00Z

What needs improvement with Azure Cost Management?

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
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SP
Real User
Top 5
2024-01-22T08:42:00Z
Jan 22, 2024

The solution could improve its APIs to access the customer application. This would help the user to integrate them into their current application itself. The solution needs to improve its support management. The solution should exhibit ready-made templates and architectures for different problem statements, making it easy to understand the capabilities of the services. This would make it easy for the developers or architects to choose the right architecture.

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NK
Real User
Top 20
2024-01-19T10:43:00Z
Jan 19, 2024

Support could be improved.

Jaime López - PeerSpot reviewer
MSP
Top 20
2023-12-05T17:22:05Z
Dec 5, 2023

We were using Microsoft 365 earlier. We recently started using Azure and its pay-as-you-go model. It is powerful and wonderful because it allows you to test different services without spending so much, but the cost could be improved.

Ahmed-Arafat - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2023-11-21T17:46:10Z
Nov 21, 2023

We have encountered delays in support.

Amro Saleh - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2023-10-17T10:45:00Z
Oct 17, 2023

Azure Cost Management needs to improve scalability.

Duke Obasi - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5
2023-09-19T13:06:09Z
Sep 19, 2023

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. A more user-friendly interface that helps me associate the values I see with specific services on the Azure platform. It gives more options because there are probably services that I should not be using now, and that wouldn't have an impact on my overall cloud environment. But I can't really correlate it to the values I see on the metering with those particular services. So it's difficult for me to find the service. "I don't want to use this one, I want to add more of that," that kind of thing.

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ElsayedAboelnaga - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-05-03T09:43:00Z
May 3, 2023

The tool's pricing should be made cheaper.

Piravin Kanth Raman - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2023-04-10T10:33:25Z
Apr 10, 2023

The forecasting model can improve Azure Cost Management.

Eduardo Sanfrutos - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2023-01-12T18:53:04Z
Jan 12, 2023

We would like to see more flexibility added to this solution, such as being able to compare reservations, or compare costs across multiple financial years and report on the reasons for deviation in spend.

Steve Staten - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant
Top 5
2023-01-09T19:16:58Z
Jan 9, 2023

I would like to have added to Azure Cost Management, drill down features from within the cost analysis reporting.

NK
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-11-08T14:51:22Z
Nov 8, 2022

We lack a resource and ID login, and it would be good if they added it.

Nigel Mullings - PeerSpot reviewer
Reseller
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-08-11T13:42:08Z
Aug 11, 2022

Cost Management could always provide more details. The more information, the better. They just need to build on what they have now.

AL
Real User
Top 5
2022-07-05T11:37:47Z
Jul 5, 2022

What would make Azure Cost Management better is a more flexible GUI that would allow users to provide more input. Another area for improvement in the solution is its reporting. The report it provides should be easy to understand.

ArturoJimenez - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-05-11T12:43:00Z
May 11, 2022

I haven't detected anything that needs improvement, but any solution could be improved.

GK
Real User
2020-11-04T08:42:59Z
Nov 4, 2020

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. We don't really use the Azure tools that much. We look at the underlying services themselves. I don't really go into the Azure console and therefore I don't know about specific missing features. It's actually quite good as a solution. It's actually pretty reasonable. However, it just doesn't have the automation that's required at scale.

it_user1383900 - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
2020-10-29T15:50:50Z
Oct 29, 2020

They can optimize some of the features. Optimization and scalability could be increased. Also, the licensing cost and transitional cost can be reduced.

MP
Real User
2020-06-28T08:51:00Z
Jun 28, 2020

The solution could use automatic emailing. That would help improve the product a lot, at least for our purposes. If Azure could automate the creation of reports and have the system automatically email us on the solution, that would be ideal. It would even be acceptable to have them available on the dashboard so we don't have to go back and set up the same filters every time. That would be a time-saver for us. Just to have the solution automated to that extent would be good. Overall, however, we've been pretty happy with the way the solution functions. There isn't too much missing, in my opinion.

SA
Real User
2020-06-14T08:03:10Z
Jun 14, 2020

Adding a simple workflow automation capability would be helpful. In our HR, procurement, and finance departments, all of the processes are manual. I would like to see improvements made in performance and reporting.

AS
Real User
2020-03-19T13:00:52Z
Mar 19, 2020

I would like to see better customization.

MK
Real User
2020-03-18T06:06:00Z
Mar 18, 2020

I think there could be improvements but it's difficult to come up with something specific. I know that the product is a lot better than it was a year ago, I can get all the information I need.

it_user1292094 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant
2020-03-03T08:47:00Z
Mar 3, 2020

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.

JM
Real User
2019-11-21T10:01:00Z
Nov 21, 2019

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

Nigel Mullings - PeerSpot reviewer
Reseller
Top 5Leaderboard
2019-09-29T07:27:00Z
Sep 29, 2019

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.

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