We performed a comparison between Azure Cost Management and VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Cost Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"The features that I have found most valuable, are the trend analysis and the budgetary trigger."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Cost Management is its way of segregating accounts based on resources."
"The initial setup process is easy."
"I like the fact that you can set alerts on the predicted cost in Azure Cost Management."
"The tool is very stable."
"Billing management is self-explanatory. There isn't a specific feature that stands out, but it's a fundamental aspect that needs to be present."
"The most valuable features of Azure Cost Management are the ability to set standards or tagging policies and initiatives. You can achieve higher cost optimization."
"The solution is useful for cloud transparency and visibility in reports and dashboards that I have generated, especially the pre-populated dashboards."
"It's stable. For report presentation, it's been fast."
"We are able to create an internal price of the product that we can then sell to clients. We get the cost plan at a good discount and then resell it with a mark up to our enterprise-level clients. This flexibility in pricing is one of the solution's best features."
"This solution is fast and very easy to understand, even if you are not a technician."
"The solution is good for cloud cost management."
"The product is easy to use in terms of monitoring all the environments. It works for multiple clouds."
"The most valuable thing I have found is the cost saving recommendations"
"We use dashboards quite heavily, but one of the features that have really stood out is some of the policies we've created to alert us of particular situations."
"I would like to see better customization."
"Stability is an area in the solution that lacks in certain areas. So, it needs to be improved."
"It would be beneficial if Azure Cost Management could automatically generate budget rules using AI insights, eliminating the need for manual configuration."
"We have encountered delays in support."
"I haven't detected anything that needs improvement, but any solution could be improved."
"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."
"All the offers should be on the console. You shouldn't need to select from different tabs."
"The product's foecasting needs improvement."
"It would be helpful to have a mobile version or a tablet version, especially for people who are outside of the office."
"The Perspectives feature could be better."
"They should provide information or tools to tune the cloud resources according to the environment size."
"If you are working with the OS you need help and other connectors to get more information."
"I would like to see better integration from CloudHealth to create easier setup and implementation."
"The performance and accuracy of Cloud Health need to be improved."
"The solution doesn't offer the best functionality, unfortunately. Some features just simply aren't on offer. The solution needs to offer more product milestones."
"CloudHealth needs to start building out Turbonomics-types of features that help the customers who are using CloudHealth really understand everything down to the server level, the virtual machine level."
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Azure Cost Management is ranked 2nd in Cloud Cost Management with 41 reviews while VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth is ranked 3rd in Cloud Cost Management with 9 reviews. Azure Cost Management is rated 8.0, while VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth is rated 8.6. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth writes "Useful for Cloud transparency and visability". Azure Cost Management is most compared with IBM Turbonomic, AWS Savings Plans, Cloudability, Zabbix and Datadog, whereas VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth is most compared with IBM Turbonomic, VMware Aria Operations, Cloudability, Densify and ServiceNow. See our Azure Cost Management vs. VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth report.
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