#1 most frequent
United States of America
51.9%1,175 installations of 2,265
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
Who Buys & Uses Azure Cost Management
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
8.7%196 installations of 2,265
#3 most frequent
Canada
6.7%151 installations of 2,265
Azure Cost Management for Resource Cost Management
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
Functional Cloud Cost Management Tool.
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
Excellent resources and cost management tool
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
Highly Functional Azure Cost and Even Intuitive Budgeting Platform.
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
A great way to manage your Azure budget and keep your costs in check!
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