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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AWS Cost Explorer

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AAWS Cost Explorer's interface is used to visualize, understand, and manage AWS costs and usage over time. Users can get custom reports that analyze cost and usage data, and analyze data at a high level (for example, total costs and usage across all accounts), or dive deeper into cost and usage data to identify trends, pinpoint cost drivers, and detect anomalies.N/A

    Azure Cost Management

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft'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.N/A
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    AWS Cost ExplorerAzure Cost Management
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    AWS Cost ExplorerAzure Cost Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    8.8
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    AWS Cost ExplorerAzure Cost Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    Great easy to use UI. Easy to analyze the costs and that drives the cost optimization and helps in driving FinOps across the organization. It would be great if we can feed in our business/internal data metrics to track the trend for unit economics rather than just costs. It would give a clear picture for FinOps rather than just cost
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    Microsoft
    A highly capable Azure Cloud platform and the best Cloud resource and cost management and data analytical capability are excellent. Azure Cost Management provides amazing capacity and performance analytics effectively and quite an easy tool Cloud efficiency optimization and its interface are very easy and friendly for the new users to get familiar with the tool easily.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Cost management
    • Cost Recommendations
    • Forecast
    • Usage
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    Microsoft
    • Accurate Cost Estimate
    • Detailed Uses Reports and Graphs
    • Quick Alert Notification
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • granular data such as Kubernetes usage, cost and optimization
    • spot recommendations
    • granular data such as AI usage, cost and optimization
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    Microsoft
    • 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.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    Very good mature interface, keeping one scale point to improve further with interactive dashboard/report capabilites, etc. Good enough to work with the costs for FinOps, we can get almost all the cost analysis details at the same place, but a unit economics visibility at the same dashboard would be great
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    Microsoft
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    AWS Cost Explorer is being used because it is fastest. All other third-party tools are taking almost 3 days to give correct costs; however, at AWS Cost Explorer, we are getting visibility in just 2 days. However, the gap is that we cannot have a visibility of unit economics in AWS Cost Explorer
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    Microsoft
    I've only used this one.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • Helped to meet the saving targets
    • Better transparency and financial accentuality
    • Detect issues
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    Microsoft
    • The financial reporting.
    • Financial easy data analytics.
    • The migration of data is effective.
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