We performed a comparison between AWS Savings Plans and Azure Cost Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Microsoft, VMware and others in Cloud Cost Management."The most valuable feature of AWS Savings Plans is we can discuss budgets briefly during our confirmation process since we are aware of our usual consumption patterns. Creating budgets in this regard would be beneficial, as it would allow us to consume only what we need, without including reserve instances that do not serve our purpose."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the fact that it's extremely customizable. It makes it very flexible in terms of usage."
"We use Azure DevOps, and the product helps us understand the cost with the help of the Azure DevOps center."
"Good control features and user interface."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is that our customers can see their consumption in real time. Even though we have a couple of analytics provided by our company, those are not in real time."
"The best thing about Azure Cost Management is the cost analysis functionality because it provides regular alerts."
"The advisor recommendations feature is the most valuable feature. It helps set your environment in a clean state."
"In the future, it would be interesting if there could be a combination of Savings Plans and some Reserved Servers."
"The visibility of AWS Savings Plans could improve."
"The tool's pricing should be made cheaper."
"Be wary of unnecessary costs."
"There are significant issues with Power BI integration at the moment, particularly with built-in applications for course management. Multiple features don't allow for efficient report generation. This is one primary concern. The second issue relates to reporting, even when using Power BI templates for course management. There are problems with data import that require manual entry. So, these are the two main challenges I'm currently facing. Another matter to consider is the removal of the markup option for partners. I'm not sure if it will be added back, but it used to allow marking up Azure usage for enterprise customers. I'm uncertain if there's an alternative way to achieve the same function. Partners need to mark up services when selling to customers, and it's currently unavailable for some products or services."
"The product's foecasting needs improvement."
"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."
"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 response time of customer support can be improved."
"We have encountered delays in support."
AWS Savings Plans is ranked 6th in Cloud Cost Management with 2 reviews while Azure Cost Management is ranked 2nd in Cloud Cost Management with 41 reviews. AWS Savings Plans is rated 9.0, while Azure Cost Management is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AWS Savings Plans writes "Low maintenance, scales well, and straightforward implementation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure Cost Management writes "A good, but limited cost information solution with strong analytics but requiring more flexibility in its reporting functionality". AWS Savings Plans is most compared with Zesty, Cloudability and IBM Turbonomic, whereas Azure Cost Management is most compared with IBM Turbonomic, VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, Cloudability, Zabbix and Datadog.
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