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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CloudZero

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ACloudZero is a cost tool that pulls in both billing and resource data from across an AWS account, then runs it through a data normalization and machine learning engine to automatically group costs and surface insights. Instead of spending time building dashboards and setting budget thresholds, CloudZero automatically sorts data and correlates cost with the activity that caused it, letting users know how costs are trending.N/A

    Microsoft Azure

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters.

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    CloudZeroMicrosoft Azure
    Editions & Modules
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    Developer
    $29
    per month
    Standard
    $100
    per month
    Professional Direct
    $1000
    per month
    Basic
    Free
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CloudZeroMicrosoft Azure
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—The free tier lets users have access to a variety of services free for 12 months with limited usage after making an Azure account.
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    Community Pulse
    CloudZeroMicrosoft Azure
    Considered Both Products
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    92%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    34 Answers
    Features
    CloudZeroMicrosoft Azure
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of CloudZero and Microsoft Azure
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    Ratings
    Microsoft Azure
    8.4
    27 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings8.126 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling00 Ratings8.725 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing00 Ratings8.624 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates00 Ratings8.225 Ratings
    Monitoring tools00 Ratings8.326 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings8.424 Ratings
    Operating system support00 Ratings8.926 Ratings
    Security controls00 Ratings8.626 Ratings
    Automation00 Ratings8.224 Ratings
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    CloudZeroMicrosoft Azure
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    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CloudZeroMicrosoft Azure
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.7
    (96 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (17 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.3
    (36 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.8
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (27 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
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    Configurability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
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    Ease of integration
    10.0
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    Product Scalability
    10.0
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    Professional Services
    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    CloudZeroMicrosoft Azure
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CloudZero
    For a Global Supply Chain SaaS Organization we are able to track the Cloud Resource Unit Economics through CloudZero. Multiple Dashboards, Weekly Reports for identify the Cloud Cost breakup, tracking Cost Anomalies, Identify resource wastage, Multicloud cost spend visibility, AKS, Container, AI Costs visbility and Optimization insights, Proactive alerts on cost spikes,
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    Microsoft
    Azure is particularly well suited for enterprise environments with existing Microsoft investments, those that require robust compliance features, and organizations that need hybrid cloud capabilities that bridge on-premises and cloud infrastructure. In my opinion, Azure is less appropriate for cost-sensitive startups or small businesses without dedicated cloud expertise and scenarios requiring edge computing use cases with limited connectivity. Azure offers comprehensive solutions for most business needs but can feel like there is a higher learning curve than other cloud-based providers, depending on the product and use case.
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    Pros
    CloudZero
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    Microsoft
    • Microsoft Azure is highly scalable and flexible. You can quickly scale up or down additional resources and computing power.
    • You have no longer upfront investments for hardware. You only pay for the use of your computing power, storage space, or services.
    • The uptime that can be achieved and guaranteed is very important for our company. This includes the rapid maintenance for security updates that are mostly carried out by Microsoft.
    • The wide range of capabilities of services that are possible in Microsoft Azure. You can practically put or create anything in Microsoft Azure.
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    Cons
    CloudZero
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    Microsoft
    • The cost of resources is difficult to determine, technical documentation is frequently out of date, and documentation and mapping capabilities are lacking.
    • The documentation needs to be improved, and some advanced configuration options require research and experimentation.
    • Microsoft's licensing scheme is too complex for the average user, and Azure SQL syntax is too different from traditional SQL.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    CloudZero
    CloudZero is a Excellent Cloud Cost Management Solution for a Enterprise level Supply Chain Management SaaS Organization
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    Microsoft
    Moving to Azure was and still is an organizational strategy and not simply changing vendors. Our product roadmap revolved around Azure as we are in the business of humanitarian relief and Azure and Microsoft play an important part in quickly and efficiently serving all of the world. Migration and investment in Azure should be considered as an overall strategy of an organization and communicated companywide.
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    Usability
    CloudZero
    Excellent MultiCloud Cost Management Solution for Global SaaS Companies to track their Multicloud Spend and complete cloud cost visibility for each product line. Supports AWS,Azure, GCP, Snowflake Cloud Platforms. Proactive Cost alerts, AI integration for cost optimization opportunities
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    Microsoft
    As Microsoft Azure is [doing a] really good with PaaS. The need of a market is to have [a] combo of PaaS and IaaS. While AWS is making [an] exceptionally well blend of both of them, Azure needs to work more on DevOps and Automation stuff. Apart from that, I would recommend Azure as a great platform for cloud services as scale.
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    Reliability and Availability
    CloudZero
    Platform is stable and available most of the time
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    Microsoft
    It has proven to be unreliable in our production environment and services become unavailable without proper notification to system administrators
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    Performance
    CloudZero
    CloudZero SaaS Platform is really good and performance is great.
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    Microsoft
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    Support Rating
    CloudZero
    Getting great support from CloudZero Support Team.
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    Microsoft
    We were running Windows Server and Active Directory, so [Microsoft] Azure was a seamless transition. We ran into a few, if any support issues, however, the availability of Microsoft Azure's support team was more than willing and able to guide us through the process. They even proposed solutions to issues we had not even thought of!
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    Online Training
    CloudZero
    Online Trainings was really good to understand the product features and explain about Cloud Finops concepts
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    Microsoft
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    Implementation Rating
    CloudZero
    Easy to Integrate and OnBoard the CloudZero Solution in couple of weeks.
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    Microsoft
    As I have mentioned before the issue with my Oracle Mismatch Version issues that have put a delay on moving one of my platforms will justify my 7 rating.
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    Alternatives Considered
    CloudZero
    Turbonomic is still an onpremise solution. Lacks integration capabilities. CloudZero offers Multicloud Cost management solution through their SaaS platform and the integration is simple for most of the Hyperscaler Platforms. No training is required for deployment and to manage and operate CloudZero platform. Great support from thier customer management team by conducting weekly Meetings with customer.
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    Microsoft
    As I continue to evaluate the "big three" cloud providers for our clients, I make the following distinctions, though this gap continues to close. AWS is more granular, and inherently powerful in the configuration options compared to [Microsoft] Azure. It is a "developer" platform for cloud. However, Azure PowerShell is helping close this gap. Google Cloud is the leading containerization platform, largely thanks to it building kubernetes from the ground up. Azure containerization is getting better at having the same storage/deployment options.
    Incentivized
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    CloudZero
    Billing frequency
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    CloudZero
    CloudZero is really scalable to handle Multicloud cost and huge cloud billing information
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    CloudZero
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    Microsoft
    • For about 2 years we didn't have to do anything with our production VMs, the system ran without a hitch, which meant our engineers could focus on features rather than infrastructure.
    • DNS management was very easy in Azure, which made it easy to upgrade our cluster with zero downtime.
    • Azure Web UI was easy to work with and navigate, which meant our senior engineers and DevOps team could work with Azure without formal training.
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    CloudZero Screenshots

    Screenshot of Uses event-driven platform and machine learning to automatically organize costs (without perfect tags), detect, anomalies, and more.Screenshot of Cost Anomaly Alerts let customers know immediately as soon as spend ticks, not just when they’ve hit a budget, to deal with issues in the moment.Screenshot of CloudZero lets companies organize costs into products and features without spreadsheets or relying on perfect tagging.Screenshot of CloudZero lets engineers investigate the source of any cost down to resource level or correlate it with the deployment that caused it. Ingests AWS metadata, CloudTrail, CloudWatch for additional engineering context.Screenshot of Get weekly updates on cost anomalies and changes.