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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have a very large, diverse Cloud environment that many departments have apps/services in. It is an easy way to segregate, and break down costs as needed without giving users access to the actual Azure Portal itself. The speed to create dashboards, or run reports is a big advantage when departments need viability of their owns costs.
Pros
- Visibility of reserved instances, and recommendations for further savings
- Right sizing suggestions based on VM utilization
- Dashboards - easy to add widgets for quick visibility of desired metrics
- Business mappings, bunch resources of type/interest together easily using custom created grouping
Cons
- I'd like see the actual VM name in reservation portfolio, rather than the reservation ID
- I find the speed in which the changes are applied a frustration. E.g if you add a business mapping, you often have to wait 24hrs or more for the data to fully process.
- The user management seems a little clunky, I preferred it when it was part of the actual Cloudy portal, rather that through access administration.
Return on Investment
- We have seen some substantial cost reductions as a direct result of rightsizing/utilzation suggestions. An estimated 18% per month
- Greater visibility of allocation of spend, highlights areas to concentrate on for potential reductions, or justification
- Positive engagement with service owners from other departments so they are now able to have insights of their spend, this was not possible before without manual reports being generated form Azure portal
Usability
Other Software Used
Rubrik, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Visual Studio Code
