Azure Cost Management Reviews

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.

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.

We use Azure Cost Management to see how much we are spending as well as how much the client is spending. That is the only use case for Azure Cost Management.

The features that I have found most valuable, are the trend analysis and the budgetary trigger. It is very good and it gives good data. It does what it is supposed to do.

I would like to have more granularity of the different services that we have. 

I have been working on Azure Cost Management for six years now.

Azure Cost Management works seamlessly. No bugs, glitches or regressions at all.

When it comes to scalability, you can only look at the costs that you are incurring for your Azure subscription. And there is no need to scale, if you ask me. It just gives you the cost rate.

I know this program very well, so we don't have to reach out to Microsoft. But when we do run into an issue that we cannot resolve, we reach out to them or email them or create a support ticket. They usually respond within a day, so we haven't faced any challenges with the technical support.

The initial setup is really straightforward and it works right out of the box. There is no complexity to it.

I think the solution was free initially. I don't know if they have changed that yet. Since we are partners of Microsoft, we have a different kind of agreement with them.

My advice to others would be that they should use it. They should try it out - it's a very good solution, and it gives a very detailed analysis as your subscription costs.

I would like the developers to add more features about migration, like how much it would cost to migrate from, let's say, AWS to Azure. That would be great.

On a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is the worst and 10 is the best, I rate Azure Cost a good 9.

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.

We use the solution to identify the cost management and the advisor cost savings plans.

The solution is helping to identify underutilized virtual machines for possible right sizing and for reservation purchases or savings plans purchases.

The cost analysis and exportability are the most valuable features of the solution.

I would like to have added to Azure Cost Management, drill down features from within the cost analysis reporting.

I have been using the solution for six months.

The stability is good.

The solution's scalability is good. I have had no issues.

We see a return on investment with the solution.

I give the solution's overall cost an eight out of ten.

I give the solution an eight out of ten.

We currently have around 30 people using the solution and we have plans to increase that usage.

I advice new users to take the training courses before using Azure Cost Management.

I don't use Cost Management, but I help our customers use it. It does what it says on the tin: it manages costs. We have hundreds of thousands of users. Every customer uses it.

Our customers use it and like it.

Cost Management could always provide more details. The more information, the better. They just need to build on what they have now. 

I have been using Azure Cost Management for five years.

Cost Management is stable.

Cost Management is highly scalable. 

I rate Azure support 10 out of 10. It's great. 

Positive

I previously used CloudCheckr. We switched to Cost Management because it's free. 

Cost Management doesn't require any setup. It's automatically available.

I rate Azure Cost Management 10 out of 10. It's a great tool that comes with your Azure subscription, so why not use it? 

We use the product to analyze the cost utilization for multiple clients who have deployed resources in Microsoft Azure. By monitoring their usage patterns, we suggest exploring cost-saving options, such as leveraging reservations or identifying opportunities for cost benefit.

Azure Cost Management is user-friendly compared to other competitors. We can easily present it to non-technical people. Everyone can visualize the insights through the application. The other cloud mobility applications have more technical functionality. Thus, the terminologies become difficult to understand.

The product's foecasting needs improvement. The current approach, which uses the maximum incurred cost to forecast for an extended period, leads to freezing budgets unnecessarily. They could enhance the forecasting model by exploring alternative algorithms such as time series or other models. Additionally, they could expand the recommendation timeframe to allow for one-year plans, acknowledging that not all organizations may have a three-year workload plan.

We have been using Azure Cost Management for two and a half years.

We encounter occasional glitches or bugs in the solution, particularly in cloud dashboards and usage tracking. The technical support team resolves the issue within 24 hours.

I rate the stability an eight or nine out of ten.

We work with enterprise companies as our clients for Azure Cost Management. It is a scalable platform.

The support team is helpful. However, we have to wait for a callback nearly a week after raising the ticket. It can be challenging, especially when working within an agile methodology with fixed timelines. They could reflect and respond, ideally within a day or two, to better align with our project timelines.

Neutral

The initial setup process is user-friendly.

We are using a solution accelerator that operates with Azure. It helps us manage policies and other functionalities. I advise others to be aware of the opportunities where the deployment cost can be reduced. 

I rate Azure Cost Management an eight 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.