Azure Cost Management Reviews

We use the solution as a cost management tool to control the budget. It is easy to mange costs with the product. 

The tool's pricing should be made cheaper. 

I have been using the tool for one year. 

The product is stable. 

The tool is scalable. 

The product's support is fast. 

The tool's pricing is yearly. 

We require three or more admins to manage the tool.

We primarily use Azure Cost Management to oversee the costs for customers and to manage the managed service.

The solution helps us ensure that every customer has projects they can work with monthly. We use it to ensure that the services they consume don't exceed what they can afford to pay each month.

Also, 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. It streamlines the process instead of calculating manually.

You can quickly access the platform based on our organization's setup and start monitoring and optimizing costs for every customer since the exchange rate is quite high. It help customers stay within budget and manage their annual budgets. Whatever they decide to spend for that year on a particular service, it ensure it doesn't exceed. It assist in managing costs to maintain their loyalty.

Once a customer reaches a certain threshold, the tool inform them about the costs, letting them know they're about to exceed their threshold and offer options to either reduce consumption.

The response time of customer support can be improved.

I have been using Azure Cost Management for 3 months.

The product is stable.

I rate the solution's stability a 7 out of 10.

The solution’s scalability is good.

20-30 users are using this solution.

I rate the solution's scalability a 7 out of 10.

Customer support is helpful.

Neutral

We have used Rapid7 before.

There are 30 engineers for the solution's deployment and maintenance in our organization. 

 Overall, I rate the solution a seven 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.

It provides a comprehensive overview of our expenses, helping us understand what's affordable and feasible for our organization.

It is an extensive platform, offering a wide array of services and capabilities. It encompasses a multitude of specialized services, each with its associated costs and considerations. It's essential to navigate this vast ecosystem wisely to optimize the cloud usage while managing expenses effectively.

The affordability of licenses and subscription fees is a critical consideration, as not all companies can easily manage the cost of expensive licenses. The challenge lies in finding a balance that accommodates both large enterprises and smaller companies.

I have been working with it for three years.

I've collaborated with Microsoft's technical support team on various tasks, including online Exchange services, other features, domain migrations, and server migrations from on-premises to the cloud. These tasks have been straightforward and essential. I would rate it ten out of ten.

Positive

The subscription fees are primarily tailored to larger enterprises, potentially leaving smaller and medium-sized customers with limited options.

Overall, I would rate it eight out of ten.

We use Azure Cost Management to see how much we are spending as well as how much the client is spending. That is the only use case for Azure Cost Management.

The features that I have found most valuable, are the trend analysis and the budgetary trigger. It is very good and it gives good data. It does what it is supposed to do.

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

I have been working on Azure Cost Management for six years now.

Azure Cost Management works seamlessly. No bugs, glitches or regressions at all.

When it comes to scalability, you can only look at the costs that you are incurring for your Azure subscription. And there is no need to scale, if you ask me. It just gives you the cost rate.

I know this program very well, so we don't have to reach out to Microsoft. But when we do run into an issue that we cannot resolve, we reach out to them or email them or create a support ticket. They usually respond within a day, so we haven't faced any challenges with the technical support.

The initial setup is really straightforward and it works right out of the box. There is no complexity to it.

I think the solution was free initially. I don't know if they have changed that yet. Since we are partners of Microsoft, we have a different kind of agreement with them.

My advice to others would be that they should use it. They should try it out - it's a very good solution, and it gives a very detailed analysis as your subscription costs.

I would like the developers to add more features about migration, like how much it would cost to migrate from, let's say, AWS to Azure. That would be great.

On a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is the worst and 10 is the best, I rate Azure Cost a good 9.

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.

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 use the solution to identify the cost management and the advisor cost savings plans.

The solution is helping to identify underutilized virtual machines for possible right sizing and for reservation purchases or savings plans purchases.

The cost analysis and exportability are the most valuable features of the solution.

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

I have been using the solution for six months.

The stability is good.

The solution's scalability is good. I have had no issues.

We see a return on investment with the solution.

I give the solution's overall cost an eight out of ten.

I give the solution an eight out of ten.

We currently have around 30 people using the solution and we have plans to increase that usage.

I advice new users to take the training courses before using Azure Cost Management.