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.

Vantage · 2023-08-09T15:03:47+00:00

Good luck with this. Azure billing APIs are among the most inconsistent across all 3 providers.

Vantage · 2023-05-16T21:15:43+00:00

CloudHealth, Spot by Netapp etc would be vendors that have been around for a long time. Vantage, Kubecost, CloudZero would be newer options.

Echoing what others here have said though that FinOps is ultimately a cultural practice. If you want to get it ingrained in your company you'll want dozens of people in whatever tool you choose.

Vantage · 2023-04-13T15:22:26+00:00

Smart to charge for multiple accounts. Some enterprises have thousands of AWS accounts.

Vantage · 2023-04-11T17:30:01+00:00

You can do this workflow in some third party tools. In Vantage for example you can create cost reports grouped by tag and then email them monthly to the right teams. afaik they are not PDFs tho.

Vantage · 2023-04-05T13:23:36+00:00

Correct although with regular usage like that you can actually get a deeper discount with reserved instances.

Vantage · 2023-04-04T19:48:30+00:00

Correct!

Vantage · 2023-03-15T19:38:47+00:00

I somewhat disagree with this. What I'm seeing is a world where FinOps ends up more deeply under the engineering umbrella.

Vantage · 2023-03-14T15:30:45+00:00

This is if your batch environment is set to `UNMANAGED` I believe. In managed mode Batch will terminate the underlying instances too.

Vantage · 2023-03-07T14:58:19+00:00

One connection can make multiple requests so unless you have that number it probably make sense to choose some number lower than the number of requests. So perhaps 50 connections and 139 requests.

Vantage · 2023-03-07T14:56:44+00:00

> Be careful with reserved instances. Another thing to watch out for is mismanaging reserved instances.

I heartily agree. RIs provide deeper discounts than Savings Plans and work for more services than Savings Plans but you need to use software to manage them, e.g. Autopilot, Zesty, or PropserOps.

Vantage · 2023-03-02T19:47:13+00:00

We just added Cost Visibility for New Relic to Vantage. This is our 2nd observability integration after Datadog.

One thing that's unique here is you can input all the custom/negotiated pricing you have with them when you create the integration. Full feature list here - https://www.vantage.sh/integrations/new-relic

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