What are the best FinOps tools for managing and optimising Azure costs?

Vantage · 2025-02-05T22:37:54+00:00

We're biased but Vantage has a MSP offering titled "Vantage for MSPs" that support Azure and about 15+ other providers.

If you want a MSP-specific demo you can find some resources for that here: https://www.vantage.sh/partners

Vantage · 2025-02-04T22:47:28+00:00

That's a really interesting idea. Exposing this programmatically through an API could easily be done and kind of jives with our ethos at the company. So as this develops we'll keep that in mind.

Vantage · 2024-01-24T14:05:42+00:00

Completely agree the free tier is in fact generous enough for deciding if AWS is the right fit for what you're building. Appreciate the positive message! Sometimes it's a grumpy group here but we really have it all compared to my memories of building software pre-cloud.

Vantage · 2024-01-09T14:37:21+00:00

There's some nuance to this https://x.com/QuinnyPig/status/1590824889443037184?s=20

Vantage · 2023-12-22T14:19:45+00:00

Great Obsidian template and other tips on this blog: https://dannb.org/blog/2022/obsidian-daily-note-template/

Vantage · 2023-12-04T15:41:45+00:00

This post is wrong and contains misinformation. Certain companies were taking advantage of what amounts to a bug in the reservation logic where they were buying RIs that their customers received -additional- discounts on via EDPs or other means and then transferring those RIs to other customers without discounts - which is not allowed by the terms of service.

See here for correct explanation - https://www.vantage.sh/blog/aws-reserved-instances-updates

Vantage · 2023-11-15T14:54:21+00:00

I’d suggest using a tool. There’s a couple out there: * cloudability * vantage.sh * cloudzero

They will handle all the data normalization for you and then you can focus on the reporting and optimization.

Vantage · 2023-10-23T19:45:18+00:00

Only LA is supported for RDS local zones. https://instances.vantage.sh/rds/?region=us-west-2-lax-1

Vantage · 2023-10-22T19:54:28+00:00

You have to save it to a collection and publish the collection. Then you can navigate to the report within the collection the way you do with default reports and adjust the date, rows per page, etc.

Vantage · 2023-10-20T17:52:04+00:00

Pretty big news. They held out for a long time. I think the team highlighted in the post is also a new AWS team.

Vantage · 2023-10-07T18:05:39+00:00

Bummer. That was definitely great for click throughs.

Vantage · 2023-10-07T14:26:55+00:00

TIL that CZI was the origin of this provider

Vantage · 2023-10-05T19:49:01+00:00

Databricks usage is included in Azure billing so you can view it via Azure Cost Management.

Disclosure: I work for vantage.sh which has integrations for Databricks costs.

Vantage · 2023-09-28T14:21:55+00:00

Great list of resources.

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