Few people today will tell you that they don't need to cut costs in business. If you've been enjoying the benefits of the Azure cloud environment for a while now, we have some very good news for you to start with. You can optimize your costs with Azure Cost Management, which is... we'll ask for virbl... free. What better way to start saving than with a free tool?
Find out how much the cloud really costs you
Azure Cost Management is made for for IT managers and IT infrastructure architectswho are today and daily exposed to questions about how much this or that actually costs, why it costs so much, and how much it will cost next month/quarter/year. Of course, sometimes you have time to prepare for the question, for example when you are going to an important team meeting. But sometimes you get caught off guard, and where do you get a quick answer that satisfies everyone? Azure Cost Management gives you the ability to continuously monitor your resources and provide you with ongoing reports. With these, you and your colleagues will get the basis for sound financial management, informed decision-making and strategic planning, and satisfy those who expect you to walk around the company with a crystal ball.
But Azure Cost Management isn't just for those looking to tame high costs. Fighting low investment efficiency, if you identify this pain, is of course necessary, but Azure Cost Management solutions respond to other modern business trends such as:
- increase corporate responsibility
- optimising cloud efficiency
- monitoring your spending in the cloud
- Spend management in Azure and AWS
What are the benefits of Azure Cost Management?
Let's take a look at this, what Azure Cost Management will bring to modern business.
Manage Azure costs
At Azure cloud at Blue Dynamic, and we consider him as the cornerstone of modern business - gives you the freedom to change and grow your business as you need it, without worrying about being limited by the power of IT. But of course, with any solution, we want to know, how it is doing - ideally in numbers. Azure Cost Management enables analysis of cloud usage and costs. It can also predict future expenses. You can view the costs in daily, monthly or yearly trends as you wish.
Unlike regular "billing reports" where you learn how much each individual service costs you, Azure Cost Management makes it easier to understand, how your resources are used - identify anomalies in spending and more easily spot opportunities for savings.
Azure Cost Management in a nutshell
In summary, you can expect from Azure Cost Management:
- reducing cloud costs
- increase the efficiency of cloud investments
- monitoring and tracking cost trends
For us, we see a big plus in the fact that Azure Cost Management works 24/7, monitors continuously. Plus, like every other tool in the Microsoft ecosystem, it's integratable, giving you huge business benefits. How to imagine this in practice?
- Integration with Azure AdvisorA: With this community, you will have personalized recommendations for optimization at any time.
- The API lets you create custom filters to see the data exactly as you need it.
- Export the data and use them in Power BI for truly in-depth analysis.
If you are asking these questions, Azure Cost Management is a must-have
Before we close, we have a checklist of questions for you. Are any of these familiar to you?
- How much have we spent on the cloud so far this month?
- Why is the last invoice different than we expected?
- Why did we pay more for Azure this time?
- How do I distribute Azure between different departments in my company?
Azure Cost Management has two key benefits for your organization: you will gain visibility into cloud spend and be able to map costs to specific departments. Moreover, it is a free tool within Azure. For us, such a combination of super benefits encourages you to try it, what do you think?
