Azure Cost Management

Score7.2 out of 10

27 Reviews and Ratings

What is Azure Cost Management?

Microsoft's Azure Cost Management tracks resource usage and manages costs across all your clouds with a single, unified view, and access rich operational and financial insights to make informed decisions.

Categories & Use Cases

Cloud Cost Management

Sneha Sharma View profile

Assistant System Engineer in Information Technology at Tata Consultancy Services (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Azure Cost Management plays a vital role in our organization. As we develop applications for clients. We estimate the resource cost and plan what services to use according to the cost estimate. It helps to keep track of deployed resources cost and we can set an alert if the cost goes above a certain threshold.

Pros

Accurate Cost Estimate
Detailed Uses Reports and Graphs
Quick Alert Notification

Cons

Documentation can be improved as it is not easy to understand for first time users
Filter option can be added more.
Price is a bit more compare to other same service provider

Most Important Features

Cost Estimation
Alert Notification
Detailed Use Reports

Return on Investment

A very positive impact
We can minimise the risk of overspending.
less work to estimate individual resource cost

Alternatives Considered

IBM Dynamic Pricing

Other Software Used

AWS Auto Scaling, IBM Dynamic Pricing, AWS Batch

Sylvia Beranice View profile

Automation Engineer in Marketing at ADA (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Effective Cloud cost management solution from Azure community. Azure Cost Management allows excellent capacity analytics generation, great multi-Cloud management capability, and a very easy Cloud resource management system. Azure Cost Management helps with easy tracking of various Cloud usage of the Azure resources and easy to manage other resources via Cloud services.

Pros

Great tool for the supply management.
Resource easy management.
Amazing performance easy management package.
Billing solution.

Cons

Tricky to deploy the platform on Cloud.
Advanced cost management tools setting is not simple.
Tracking multiple resources via the Cloud is also no easy.

Most Important Features

Effective budgeting alerts solution.
Tracking of multiple resources.
Great tool for the cost management.

Return on Investment

The tool access control management is fantastic.
The capacity analytics are excellent.
Effective supply management.

Other Software Used

IBM Cloud Block Storage, Avanan, Sage Intacct

Lily Adams View profile

Software Engineer in Finance and Accounting at BNP Paribas (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Highly intuitive clouds' resource and cost management tool with easy-to-use features and good analytics helping us to forecast and budget well not to exceed our resource and cost limits. Great tool for effective multi-Cloud management and quality reporting capabilities and a reliable solution that provides an easy way to track various Clouds usages.

Pros

Excellent analytics to quality cost management decision-making.
Multi-Cloud management capability.
Easy way to track and report on various Clouds' usages.

Cons

It's not easy to track multiple Clouds' costs and resources to new users.
Advanced cost management settings require professional expertise.
May be complex to deploy Azure Cost Management via Cloud to new inexperienced users.

Most Important Features

Effective project planning and budgeting solution.
An easy way to track multiple resources.
Great and reliable tool for cost and resource management.

Return on Investment

Excellent analytical features for easy planning and budgeting.
Effective project cost and supply management tool.
Projects access and control managements are superb.

Other Software Used

Sage Intacct, IBM Cloudant

Cedeno Amanda View profile

.NET Software Engineer in Marketing at Ariadna Communications Group (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The best software that enables us on effective management of multiple project resources through the Cloud services. Azure Cost Management features have the best capabilities in which they provide excellent and unique Cloud cost management, easy data migration and the data management through Azure Cloud services is profitable. The accuracy of multiple calculations and reports is effective.

Pros

Cloud cost and resource management.
Analytics are profitable.
The accurate on cost calculation.

Cons

Deployment on Cloud for the learners.
Advance configurations.
Data management especially for the large data.

Most Important Features

Cost and budget management.
Resource planning.
Project expense tracking.

Return on Investment

The financial reporting.
Financial easy data analytics.
The migration of data is effective.

Other Software Used

IBM Cloud Block Storage, Nintex Process Platform, Storyblok

Marco Urrea View profile

DevOps Engineer in Information Technology at DigitalOnUs (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

It sends notifications when the budget reached an specific amount.
It allows the company to have visibility of the costs.
It keeps our costs in check.

Cons

If the user could set up how often it reports or checks the budget.
Add more conditions would be nice.
Add more report views.

Return on Investment

It reduces costs
it allows management to have an overview of actual numbers
it allows the company to track costs

Other Software Used

Azure Blob Storage, Azure Search

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