We performed a comparison between Azure Cost Management and Cloudability 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."The most valuable feature of Azure Cost Management is cost optimization."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Cost Management is its way of segregating accounts based on resources."
"The product provides visibility into what we are consuming."
"The cost analysis and exportability are the most valuable features of the solution."
"The interface is good, and it's easy to manage."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the fact that it's extremely customizable. It makes it very flexible in terms of usage."
"The initial setup process is easy."
"The features that I have found most valuable, are the trend analysis and the budgetary trigger."
"The most crucial feature in reducing my cloud costs has been the rightsizing recommendations, along with the dashboards that track reserved instance spending coverage and utilization. As for Cloudability's integration with our existing cloud infrastructure, it's not integrated directly into our AWS infrastructure but rather reads and pulls data from it, providing valuable insights and analysis for cost management."
"One of the standout features of the solution is its groups and views functionality. The solution is highly-stable. The solution is highly-scalable. The customer support is good. They can be easily contacted. The initial setup is straightforward. It's an excellent tool, especially when dealing with multiple clouds. It streamlines the process, eliminating the need to check each cloud individually."
"Transparency and visibility are the key features."
"It provides us visibility, then we can turn around and can give the leadership team more information, which we could not previously give them."
"The pricing isn't too expensive."
"It has already given us insight into how to optimize. So, we are now ramping up steadily its usage."
"The tool helps us to resize on AWS correctly."
"The support from IBM is fantastic"
"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."
"We would like to see more flexibility added to this solution, such as being able to compare reservations, or compare costs across multiple financial years and report on the reasons for deviation in spend."
"The product's foecasting needs improvement."
"It can be difficult to determine the cost associated with certain resources as it relies on a tagging progress. This means we need to drill down billing reports to highlight and fix missing tags."
"I would like to have added to Azure Cost Management, drill down features from within the cost analysis reporting."
"The forecasting model can improve Azure Cost Management."
"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."
"All the offers should be on the console. You shouldn't need to select from different tabs."
"There is always room for improvement in education and training. We are not that mature in terms of our automation. It could help us identify where we could optimize in terms of build."
"I would like the API functionality to improve. The update time after uploading data could also be improved."
"In general, I feel Cloudability wasn't able to support many resources."
"They can improve the custom range of the network."
"The API is not well-documented. It is not straightforward and difficult to use. This needs to be improved, as it is very difficult for our developers to develop automation around it."
"We have dealt with a few technical support people where we ask for one thing and they might not deliver straightaway. It seems like they are a stretched across multiple customers."
"We would like them to have a linear regression, so we can be predictive for budgets, allocations, and the year's follow ups. We also want to have a longer window of analytics with better certainty that our workload will fit the model, not just in a two week window."
"I wish there was a feature to temporarily remove certain recommendations from the list for teams that couldn't implement them immediately. I believe Cloudability could improve its automation functionality and enhance cost allocation modeling."
Azure Cost Management is ranked 2nd in Cloud Cost Management with 41 reviews while Cloudability is ranked 5th in Cloud Cost Management with 12 reviews. Azure Cost Management is rated 8.0, while Cloudability is rated 7.6. 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 Cloudability writes "An excellent solution for dealing with multiple clouds". Azure Cost Management is most compared with IBM Turbonomic, VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth, AWS Savings Plans, Zabbix and Datadog, whereas Cloudability is most compared with VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth, IBM Turbonomic, Densify, Harness and Spot Eco. See our Azure Cost Management vs. Cloudability report.
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