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 charts in the dashboards, it's difficult to understand which chart is representing what. Those interfaces could be made simpler. I'm not much into analytics patterns, so Azure Cost Management's Cost Analytics feature hasn't particularly helped my organization understand spending patterns.
Senior Database / Data Management Expert at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
May 5, 2025
Customization features could be added for Azure Cost Management ( /products/azure-cost-management-reviews ), but the dashboards are handy, and overall, everything is good.
Sr. Technical Architect at Hexaware Technologies Limited
Real User
Top 5
Dec 26, 2024
Azure Cost Management is a little complicated, and the learning curve is somewhat steep. An enhancement recommendation I have would be to provide more real-time updates about costs.
Software Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
Sep 2, 2024
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. I think some automation can be done to make the interface more user-friendly. We need holistic retail features about the cost. For example, if we have an overall expense of 20,000 dollars for August, we get a critical breakdown by instance size and service size. But this comes in a common pool, as general data, not specific to each instance. We've configured resources and add-on services tagged to instances, but there should be a mechanism to download these details when someone needs them automatically. Sometimes, customers ask about their exact usage out of the total cost, and it's difficult to convince them. We don't have such a mechanism available in the interface. We have to manually do it in Excel and get it approved by them. These are the main points I'd like to see improved. It would be much easier if we could get instance-specific breakdowns automatically rather than having to compile this information manually.
In our company, we recently started using the tool, so I don't know what options it provides to actually scale up. I think it is too soon to basically provide feedback about the tool. So far, Azure Cost Management has been helping our company with the accountability we need for our hosting costs and other cost management. The maintenance of the product by Azure's support team is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required.
The solution could improve its APIs to access the customer application. This would help the user to integrate them into their current application itself. The solution needs to improve its support management. The solution should exhibit ready-made templates and architectures for different problem statements, making it easy to understand the capabilities of the services. This would make it easy for the developers or architects to choose the right architecture.
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.
There are certainly areas for improvement in terms of labeling the inventory. That's because right now, we use a number of services. But it's difficult when you look at the billing limiters and how they are named. We can't correlate those names to the actual services there. So, I can't click on an item and see if I'm still using this service or not. So it just rolls up and gives me values and figures, but I can't really correlate them to actual services on the Azure platform. A more user-friendly interface that helps me associate the values I see with specific services on the Azure platform. It gives more options because there are probably services that I should not be using now, and that wouldn't have an impact on my overall cloud environment. But I can't really correlate it to the values I see on the metering with those particular services. So it's difficult for me to find the service. "I don't want to use this one, I want to add more of that," that kind of thing.
Technology Strategy and Advisory Cloud Manager at Accenture
Real User
Jan 12, 2023
We would like to see more flexibility added to this solution, such as being able to compare reservations, or compare costs across multiple financial years and report on the reasons for deviation in spend.
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.
VP GTM Operations at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Nov 4, 2020
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.
Senior Project Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Oct 29, 2020
They can optimize some of the features. Optimization and scalability could be increased. Also, the licensing cost and transitional cost can be reduced.
Team Leader for Infrastructure Support at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Jun 28, 2020
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.
Senior System Analyst at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Jun 14, 2020
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.
IT Administrator at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Mar 18, 2020
I think there could be improvements but it's difficult to come up with something specific. I know that the product is a lot better than it was a year ago, I can get all the information I need.
Cloud Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Consultant
Mar 3, 2020
For us, it only works for one provider. So we need to be more of a hybrid solution for any cloud. If it worked better with other cloud providers it would be better. I would like it to give you more. Not only a cost management review. I would like to see more insights into our cloud infrastructure. We use metrics like CPU, RAM and application utilization. So it could be good to have something like that. The interface is ok, but it could use some improvement.
Enterprise Cloud Architect at Peritem Consultants Ltd
Reseller
Sep 29, 2019
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.
Azure Cost Management provides tools for effective cost control, analysis, and expenditure tracking in cloud environments. It helps organizations optimize their cloud spending, offering insights and analytics for informed financial decision-making.Azure Cost Management offers an integrated interface with features including real-time consumption display, cost analysis, and budgeting tools. Its predictive analytics and central visibility aid in monitoring resource costs and optimizing expenses....
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 charts in the dashboards, it's difficult to understand which chart is representing what. Those interfaces could be made simpler. I'm not much into analytics patterns, so Azure Cost Management's Cost Analytics feature hasn't particularly helped my organization understand spending patterns.
Customization features could be added for Azure Cost Management ( /products/azure-cost-management-reviews ), but the dashboards are handy, and overall, everything is good.
Azure Cost Management is a little complicated, and the learning curve is somewhat steep. An enhancement recommendation I have would be to provide more real-time updates about costs.
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. I think some automation can be done to make the interface more user-friendly. We need holistic retail features about the cost. For example, if we have an overall expense of 20,000 dollars for August, we get a critical breakdown by instance size and service size. But this comes in a common pool, as general data, not specific to each instance. We've configured resources and add-on services tagged to instances, but there should be a mechanism to download these details when someone needs them automatically. Sometimes, customers ask about their exact usage out of the total cost, and it's difficult to convince them. We don't have such a mechanism available in the interface. We have to manually do it in Excel and get it approved by them. These are the main points I'd like to see improved. It would be much easier if we could get instance-specific breakdowns automatically rather than having to compile this information manually.
In our company, we recently started using the tool, so I don't know what options it provides to actually scale up. I think it is too soon to basically provide feedback about the tool. So far, Azure Cost Management has been helping our company with the accountability we need for our hosting costs and other cost management. The maintenance of the product by Azure's support team is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required.
The solution could improve its APIs to access the customer application. This would help the user to integrate them into their current application itself. The solution needs to improve its support management. The solution should exhibit ready-made templates and architectures for different problem statements, making it easy to understand the capabilities of the services. This would make it easy for the developers or architects to choose the right architecture.
Support could be improved.
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.
We have encountered delays in support.
Azure Cost Management needs to improve scalability.
There are certainly areas for improvement in terms of labeling the inventory. That's because right now, we use a number of services. But it's difficult when you look at the billing limiters and how they are named. We can't correlate those names to the actual services there. So, I can't click on an item and see if I'm still using this service or not. So it just rolls up and gives me values and figures, but I can't really correlate them to actual services on the Azure platform. A more user-friendly interface that helps me associate the values I see with specific services on the Azure platform. It gives more options because there are probably services that I should not be using now, and that wouldn't have an impact on my overall cloud environment. But I can't really correlate it to the values I see on the metering with those particular services. So it's difficult for me to find the service. "I don't want to use this one, I want to add more of that," that kind of thing.
The tool's pricing should be made cheaper.
The forecasting model can improve Azure Cost Management.
We would like to see more flexibility added to this solution, such as being able to compare reservations, or compare costs across multiple financial years and report on the reasons for deviation in spend.
I would like to have added to Azure Cost Management, drill down features from within the cost analysis reporting.
We lack a resource and ID login, and it would be good if they added it.
Cost Management could always provide more details. The more information, the better. They just need to build on what they have now.
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.
I haven't detected anything that needs improvement, but any solution could be improved.
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.
They can optimize some of the features. Optimization and scalability could be increased. Also, the licensing cost and transitional cost can be reduced.
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.
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 would like to see better customization.
I think there could be improvements but it's difficult to come up with something specific. I know that the product is a lot better than it was a year ago, I can get all the information I need.
For us, it only works for one provider. So we need to be more of a hybrid solution for any cloud. If it worked better with other cloud providers it would be better. I would like it to give you more. Not only a cost management review. I would like to see more insights into our cloud infrastructure. We use metrics like CPU, RAM and application utilization. So it could be good to have something like that. The interface is ok, but it could use some improvement.
I would like to have more granularity of the different services that we have.
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.