Azure Cost Management Reviews

We use the solution to manage costs.

The product provides visibility into what we are consuming.

The dashboard could be improved.

I have been using the solution for two years.

I rate the tool’s stability an eight out of ten.

Less than ten people, including administrators and engineers, are using the product in our organization. The maintenance is done automatically by Microsoft. The tool is very scalable. I rate the scalability an eight out of ten.

The support team is helpful. The quality of support depends on how much we are willing to spend.

Neutral

We used Commvault to support a client. We did not use it extensively, though.

The installation was pretty straightforward. The time taken for deployment varies depending on the product. Usually, we need a few minutes for deployment.

The product is not cheap, but it is not expensive either. I rate the pricing a five out of ten. We have to pay for support.

We are system integrators. I recommend the tool to others. Overall, I rate the tool a six out of ten.

Azure Cost Management is being used for the infrastructure services our customers have in terms of how we can best optimize them and how we can propose the solution to customers, for example, if there are on-premises workloads that can be moved to the cloud, etc.

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.

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.

Azure Cost Management is a very stable solution. My company didn't have any problems in terms of stability.

Azure Cost Management is a scalable solution. As it's integrated with all Azure services, it's scalable.

My team never contacted technical support for Azure Cost Management because the solution has very good documentation and guides on the website, so there were never any problems with it.

The initial setup for Azure Cost Management was straightforward. My team implemented it and it was very straightforward. The solution didn't take much time to onboard.

We implemented Azure Cost Management in-house.

At the moment, I don't remember the licensing cost for Azure Cost Management.

My company explored the features of Azure Cost Management, used the solution, and continues to provide consulting to customers. The decision-making of whether to use the solution or not is left to the customers after my company gives options. My company also configures Azure Cost Management and gives guidance to customers.

More than ten to fifteen clients are using the solution.

Azure Cost Management is a solution my company can recommend. Wherever it is required, my company would recommend it.

My rating for Azure Cost Management is eight out of ten.

We use the solution to develop different personal solutions.

Azure Cost Management has its conciseness and clear visibility. Having all resource costs in one place makes it incredibly easy to identify the biggest spenders, whether a specific resource or an entire resource group. This centralized view is crucial for understanding my service configurations and making informed decisions about cost optimization, like scaling down or even turning off services.

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.

I have been using Azure Cost Management for less than a year. We are using the latest version of the solution.

I rate the solution’s stability a ten out of ten.

20 users are using this solution.

Customer support is enough with the information available. They also provide help guides, forums on the portal, and other resources that Microsoft provides.

Azure Cost Management is a cost-effective solution. It's more valuable than the cost.

Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

I don't use Cost Management, but I help our customers use it. It does what it says on the tin: it manages costs. We have hundreds of thousands of users. Every customer uses it.

Our customers use it and like it.

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

I have been using Azure Cost Management for five years.

Cost Management is stable.

Cost Management is highly scalable. 

I rate Azure support 10 out of 10. It's great. 

Positive

I previously used CloudCheckr. We switched to Cost Management because it's free. 

Cost Management doesn't require any setup. It's automatically available.

I rate Azure Cost Management 10 out of 10. It's a great tool that comes with your Azure subscription, so why not use it? 

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. 

We use the solution to understand the resource response and cost per customer for multiple projects in our organization.

The most valuable feature of Azure Cost Management is its way of segregating accounts based on resources.

The solution needs an automated dashboard and better reporting.

I have been using Azure Cost Management for the last three years.

I rate Azure Cost Management a ten out of ten for stability.

I don't see any need for scalability for this solution. We have 350 plus customers using the solution.

The technical support for Azure Cost Management is far better. Whatever we need is available on the portal, and if there is any discrepancy, we raise it to the support team.

You don't have to do any setup, it's all populated from what you have in your environment.

Customers do not need to pay for the product's license, and the product is free of cost.

The solution's user interface is good. We also get the projection for the current month. I am a technical consultant and rarely work on cost management. Microsoft manages the solution, and you don’t need any skill sets to use it.

Overall, I rate Azure Cost Management a ten out of ten.

We primarily sell the solution to our clients. We also have our own solution. We do cost reporting including budgets and budget alerts and unused services like SQL databases, ABMs, managed disk, Cosmos DB, service plan and usage, and the detailing of all of that.

We don't actually use the Azure Cost Management features. We have our own capabilities. We put our own technology on top of Azure as Azure doesn't deliver a really good cost optimization, so our customers come to us to enhance what they're potentially doing inside their Azure platform.

We do AWS and Azure. We do it all automatically to identify cost remediation or optimization targets and then put into automation or policy automation to continue to remediate based on tagging, subscriptions, service type, and a whole bunch of other things.

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.

We've been in business since 2013, therefore, we've been using the solution for about seven years.

We need more automation. Otherwise, our clients can't do what they need to do, and, in that sense, the solution doesn't really work for our purposes.

Scalability isn't a problem per se, however, it comes back to the policy-based stuff. A lot of our customers can't use a manual interface to do what needs to be done. They need automation to do it. The solution in general lacks that capability. Therefore, it doesn't make sense to scale.

We don't really contact technical support as we have our own platforms that handle things. We don't require their assistance.

We're a cloud management company. I run sales, so I am not using the solution to any great technical extent.

We have a technical relationship with Azure. We're very integrated with Azure. Not just from a Cost Management perspective, but also from orchestrated Azure services. We're an extra service delivery platform. We actually hook into Azure, Alibaba, GCP, AWS, OpenStack, Nutanix, VMware. We're hooked into 27 different public cloud providers and private hypervisor solutions.

The solution is a SaaS-based product.

We run our own platform. We basically have a SaaS service. We connect into Azure subscriptions or Azure EA or CSP, and the customer will then provide us with credentials, and then we would basically automate all of the customer mediation across Azure. We would identify approximate remediation times as suggested across many different services, and then automatically put in policy-based workflows that would continue to remediate the services deployed within the Azure environment.

We do certify our platform with the Azure certification programs. We are certified in the marketplace in terms of connecting to the marketplace and their APIs. We look at deeper aspects of the product and read up on technical support about the Azure console front end.

Overall, I would recommend it to small and medium businesses. I wouldn't recommend it to large enterprises due to the lack of automation.

I do quite like the product and would rate it seven out of ten.

We provide this solution for all of our customers. We have been providing it since it was released. We are using it to assist our customers.

The amount of customers we have reached has increased.

The most valuable feature is that our customers can see their consumption in real time. Even though we have a couple of analytics provided by our company, those are not in real time.

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

It's stable.

It's scalable.

We used a different solution, but we switched because the one provided by Microsoft is free.

It was straightforward. It's embedded on the Azure Portal, so there's no installation time. There's nothing to be installed.

Since we are a DC, we only provide this solution to customers. They pay our fees, so there's not too much invested in this.

The solution is free. It's part of having an Azure subscription.

I would rate this solution 10 out of 10.