Azure Cost Management Reviews

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. 

Azure Cost Management helps track customer bills and tag resources. 

My organization benefits from the tool's performance and time-saving features. 

Azure Cost Management helps in bill management and eliminates resources. 

We have encountered delays in support. 

I have been working with the product for three years. 

I rate Azure Cost Management's stability a nine out of ten. 

We have around 500 users for the product. One of our government clients has more than 10,000 users. I rate the product's scalability a nine out of ten. 

The tool's deployment is easy because of Microsoft documentation. 

We have saved 50 percent of the time with Azure Cost Management. 

I rate the tool's pricing a seven out of ten. 

We maintain the tool with the help of third-party service teams. Azure Cost Management is an enterprise solution. I rate the product a nine 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 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.

Regarding Azure Cost Management, I think it's easier for the clients we're using it for, along with which the deployment part of the solution is also easy. Basically, we store our application in Azure. So, it is being used by our clients for storing their applications. Also, they have one database called Teamcenter data. So, such things are being stored in Azure.

Regarding Azure Cost Management, it is an easy solution to use since it is a cloud-based tool. Everything related to the solution comes in handy. So, no network or server team is required to configure the solution.

Stability is an area in the solution that lacks in certain areas. So, it needs to be improved.

Currently, I'm working on Azure Cost Management. As per the new requirements that are coming in for Azure, I am also taking part in involving myself in Azure. Also, I am using the solution's latest version.

I cannot give you an assured rating, but its stability can be rated around nine on a scale of one to ten.

It is a fully scalable product with the potential to enhance our application and increase our servers. All cloud-based solutions are fully scalable.

There is a lesser requirement for the solution. That's why we have not gone through measuring the number of clients we have since they have AWS as their cloud solution. Our clients are not very aware of Azure. So, that's an issue. In the future, the number of users will increase. Right now, I cannot give an accurate number of users using it.

I have only contacted the support for AWS and not for Azure.

I have only used Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.

The solution's initial setup process was straightforward. The deployment was done in two to three months.

The deployment process is quite simple. In our settings, there is a cloud and visualization part. In that case, we need to select Azure, and our Azure test would monitor Azure. Then, we need to connect a new instance, and we have to go through the configuration phase in which we need to have the tokens and then copy and paste all the tokens. Once the configuration field starts getting filled, it will reconnect to our Azure cloud.

The deployment process is quite simple. So, there are no big issues in the deployment part of Azure. Since it is a cloud solution, there is no need for other people to deploy or maintain the solution. If anyone is involved in such processes, then he or she must be an expert in Azure.

If there is an issue we face in the solution, then we raise a ticket. The Azure and Microsoft team then handles such issues of their users. So there is no manpower required to configure the solution since we can do it on our physical servers.

Azure Cost Management is a free solution. The cost is only for Azure cloud. Apart from that, based on how much a host consumes the solution, we need to pay.

The loading part of the solution is good. Overall, there are no issues in Azure Cost Management.

A person who has a physical server, and has personal knowledge of a physical server, can directly use Azure. A person who knows to use AWS can also connect to Azure. Only certain terminologies in AWS and Azure should be clear. Apart from that, the architecture and connection in regards to how the data is doing and other such related things must be known by the person planning to use Azure.

I rate the overall solution a nine 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.

The product's licensing cost could be improved.

We have been using Azure Cost Management for three months.

I rate the platform's stability a nine out of ten.

We manage Azure Cost Management for one in our environment.

One of the executives from the technical support team has been helpful.

Positive

The initial setup process is easy. We have a team of ten engineers working on deployment and maintenance. It takes a long time to complete as it requires setting up multiple firewall rules.

I rate Azure Cost Management a nine out of ten.