Azure Cost Management Reviews

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 use this solution to help with setting up our yearly budget. We look at how much we are currently using on a monthly basis how and close we are to meeting the monthly budget. If we find that we are going over then it helps to adjust the yearly budget.

We also look at what resources have been used more extensively in the current month as opposed to last. The dashboard allows us to make these comparisons. From here, we can optimize resources and reduce costs. In the end, we also develop new resources.

Ideally, we can look ahead to see what we can expect by making changes to certain resources. This is done by looking back at previous months and seeing what the effects were for other changes.

Our second use case has to do with projecting profitability by looking at trends. We are looking at one-year relationships to search for tending patterns. 

The most valuable feature is that it helps us to better forecast and reduce costs.

I would like to see better customization.

We have been using Azure Cost Management for the past year. More generally, we have been exploring Azure technologies for the past three years.

This a stable solution and we have rarely encountered issues. Sometimes, it takes a little bit longer than usual to generate our reports but it could be a website or network issue.

We don't manage the solution so we don't know about the scalability. Internally, only our IT management team uses it.

The initial setup is straightforward. It is not complex, although it takes some time to understand.

I would rate this solution a six out of ten.

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.

We use Azure Cost Management for billing and cost estimation purposes.

I like that it's a free solution that we can use to check our overall cost and utilization.

The UI is complex, and it should be less so.

I've been using this solution for two years.

During the two years I've been working with this solution, it has only been down once or twice. Thus, I would rate the stability of the solution at nine out of ten.

For Azure Cost Management's scalability, I would give a rating of eight out of ten. We have five release managers who use the solution in our organization.

Technical support staff are well trained and excellent. As such, I would rate technical support at nine out of ten.

Positive

The installation process is straightforward for Azure Cost Management. It takes a couple of minutes to implement it.

The maintenance can be handled by one person.

I would recommend Azure Cost Management and rate it at ten out of ten.

We are satisfied with the product, and it is working for us with respect to the VM.

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

We have been using this solution for less than a year. We use the solution from the Cost Manager portal only.

The product is stable.

The product is scalable. One other person in the organization and I use this solution.

Technical support is not required. It is easy to log in, and everything is graphical so that you can build on the published resources.

You do not need to deploy the solution. You only need access to Cost Management.

There is no licensing cost. Azure Cost Management only comes with the Azure portal, and there is no cost. When you integrate other cloud services with the portal, there is no cost.

I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

My clients use Azure Cost Management to reduce costs and work more efficiently.

The solution is very sensitive. Every component must be configured because it affects the project cost.

We're using the latest version.

I like the granularity of the tools.

I would like to see some features included for costing and more information about the components of deployment. Sometimes, it's very difficult to match the component with the solution because the descriptions are not very clear.

The solution is stable.

Technical support is good. I would rate it five out of five.

Initial setup is very easy.

For deployment and maintenance, we need one engineer for five customers.

I would rate this solution eight out of 10. 

When deploying the solution, the first thing the engineer must do is configure text to every component. If the engineer forgets to configure the text, it's a future problem for customers.

We use this solution to manage costs for our implementation of Oracle Hyperion.

The security features are very good. 

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.

I have been using Azure Cost Management for about two years.

To some extent, we have had some issues with stability. However, not that much.

Scalability has not been an issue.

Microsoft's technical support is good.

The initial setup is a little bit complex.

My advice for anybody who is implementing this solution is to carefully consider the design. If the design gets too complex then it will lead to poor performance.

I would rate this solution a six out of ten.

We primarily use the solution for our infrastructure at our organization.

The most valuable aspect of the solution is the fact that it's extremely customizable. It makes it very flexible in terms of usage.

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.

I've been using the solution for about two years now.

This solution is stable. It's quite reliable. I don't recall having to deal with crashes. There aren't bugs or glitches within the product that affect its usability.

The solution is very scalable. If a company needs to expand, it shouldn't have any issues doing so using this product.

The team we have on it currently is pretty small. There are only about three or four users on the solution at this time.

We do plan to increase usage in the future. We haven't yet, however.

Technical support has been good. I don't have any complaints there. We've been satisfied with the level of service we've been provided.

The initial setup wasn't complex. It was a few years ago now, but I recall that the whole implementation was pretty straightforward.

The pricing on the solution is fair. I wouldn't describe it as overly expensive or costly.

I'm just a customer. I don't have any kind of special relationship with Azure.

I would rate the solution seven out of ten.

I really like the solution. I don't know if I have any recommendations to other users. It just works well.