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Azure Cost Management vs VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Azure Cost Management
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
46
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
6th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (24th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of Azure Cost Management is 3.4%, down from 9.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is 4.1%, down from 6.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Azure Cost Management3.4%
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth4.1%
Other92.5%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2702517 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Database / Data Management Expert at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Transparency in cost estimation and budget maintenance is enhanced
At the beginning of the project, I estimate the cost and try to be transparent with the customer, letting them know the expected cost with a tolerance of plus or minus ten percent. If the requirement is clear, I estimate it for fifty to one hundred percent depending on their requirements. Any…
Cláudio Braga - PeerSpot reviewer
AI Software Developer Engineer at IBM
Improves cloud cost control and accountability but could explore further enhancements
The most valuable features of this solution include the drive for accountability because we can allocate cloud costs back to specific business units or teams through showback and chargeback. Additionally, reduced waste is achieved because we can identify unused or underutilized resources and receive recommendations for resizing instances. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's unified dashboard helps streamline cloud management practices by unifying everything needed in one dashboard, such as metrics, instance workings, machines, and servers. All of this in just one dashboard is very helpful to improve agility and resolve issues, especially for the workloads. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth helps manage compliance risks by preventing threats, stopping attacks, detecting threats, and securing workloads or endpoints where customers will be using the endpoints. The positive impact on my organization is substantial because we can reduce waste, optimize expenses, drive accountability, and secure the budget from unnecessary cloud costs.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The advisor recommendations feature is the most valuable feature. It helps set your environment in a clean state."
"The tool helps with budgeting and reporting. It notifies us whenever we cross the threshold."
"It has predictive analysis. It can forecast based on the costs associated with the particular architecture and how often they use it, estimating how much they'll spend."
"The features that I have found most valuable, are the trend analysis and the budgetary trigger."
"The most valuable feature is that it helps us to better forecast and reduce costs."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's unified dashboard helps streamline cloud management practices by unifying everything needed in one dashboard, such as metrics, instance workings, machines, and servers."
"We are able to create an internal price of the product that we can then sell to clients. We get the cost plan at a good discount and then resell it with a mark up to our enterprise-level clients. This flexibility in pricing is one of the solution's best features."
"This solution is fast and very easy to understand, even if you are not a technician."
"We use dashboards quite heavily, but one of the features that have really stood out is some of the policies we've created to alert us of particular situations."
"It's stable. For report presentation, it's been fast."
"The solution is useful for cloud transparency and visibility in reports and dashboards that I have generated, especially the pre-populated dashboards."
"The product is easy to use in terms of monitoring all the environments. It works for multiple clouds."
"The pricing is rather competitive right now."
 

Cons

"Improved integration with other solutions could definitely be beneficial."
"If it worked better with other cloud providers it would be better."
"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."
"The maintenance of the product by Azure's support team is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The product's licensing cost could be improved."
"I'd like to see improvements in tracking billing and costs. It would be helpful to have alerts generated by instance and location. We use the cloud for multiple programs, and it's difficult to segregate costs and get budgets from customers. We have to tag each instance, which is time-consuming. Automation and proactive alerts by instance or instance IDs would be beneficial."
"The technical support could be improved."
"The solution could improve its APIs to access the customer application."
"The export features regarding CSV files and specifically around identifying savings plans have room for improvement, as well as the drill-down features for reservation utilization."
"The performance and accuracy of Cloud Health need to be improved."
"I would like to see better integration from CloudHealth to create easier setup and implementation."
"CloudHealth needs to start building out Turbonomics-types of features that help the customers who are using CloudHealth really understand everything down to the server level, the virtual machine level."
"The solution doesn't offer the best functionality, unfortunately. Some features just simply aren't on offer. The solution needs to offer more product milestones."
"Some companies may not be capable of affording this product."
"The Perspectives feature could be better."
"If you are working with the OS you need help and other connectors to get more information."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is not cheap, but it is not expensive either."
"It's bundled in with the package. I have it as part of the package."
"The subscription fees are primarily tailored to larger enterprises, potentially leaving smaller and medium-sized customers with limited options."
"Azure Cost Management is a free cost management tool."
"I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten - the price could be lower."
"Azure Cost Management is a free solution. The cost is only for Azure cloud."
"The tool's pricing is yearly."
"Compared to competitors, it's cost-effective. I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, with ten being expensive."
"CloudHealth has a subscription-based model."
"I give the cost of the solution an eight out of ten."
"There could be flexibility in pricing for the product."
"The pricing is competitive and while other products are good they are considerably more expensive."
"The licensing fees depend on how big the company is. If you are a larger company then you have a better contract with a better price. The price is different for a small company."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Marketing Services Firm
7%
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Performing Arts
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise32
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise5
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure Cost Management?
Gives visibility into the cost of cloud-based solutions.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Cost Management?
The pricing part could be improved. I would rate it as six out of ten. It depends on the solution. We mostly pay for our licenses.
What needs improvement with Azure Cost Management?
There are areas in Azure Cost Management that could be improved; sometimes, as a start user or junior developer, if I try to understand which service consumed how much cost and look at different ch...
What needs improvement with CloudHealth?
I do not see any flaws in VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth. Everything is fine for me. The performance is acceptable, and the layout is acceptable. It is very user-friendly, and there is nothing that needs...
What is your primary use case for CloudHealth?
This product was used for financial management in my company because I was working for a FinTech. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's use case is related to financial control and resource governance across ...
What advice do you have for others considering CloudHealth?
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's analytics in understanding cloud usage trends and expense forecasts is normally more for marketing staff and analyzing production servers in my case, so I am not very exp...
 

Also Known As

Microsoft Azure Cost Management, Cloudyn
Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, CloudHealth
 

Overview

 

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
Pinterest, Dow Jones, RhythmOne, Ziff Davis, Acquia, Mentor Graphics, Lookout, Veracode, SwiftKey, Amtrak, Shi, Imgur, SumoLogic, NewsUK, Cloudera, Canvas
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