Author: Md. Afzal Hassan Ehsani

VMware’s Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth is an enterprise cloud financial management platform with added cloud management features, like security and governance.

The CloudHealth platform ingests massive amounts of data from multiple sources and integrations. It then aggregates the data in one place, enabling simpler analysis and quicker decision-making. This helps IT staff to visualize, analyze, and act on their environment’s resource usage, application/infrastructure performance, security, and compliance aspects.

CloudHealth main features: Why is CloudHealth so popular?

CloudHealth main capabilities revolve around helping FinOps, DevOps, and DevSecOps teams discover and continuously monitor their cloud or on-premises environments. Here’s more:

Cloud financial management

CloudHealth offers several cloud cost management features to consider:

• Visualize your cloud costs and usage
• Supports chargebacks and showbacks by department, team, project or application
• Create custom budgets and track your spending against them
• Manage commitment based discounts, such as Reserved Instances (RIs) and Savings Plans, through amortization, purchase modeling, and optimizations
• Get custom rightsizing recommendations you can implement manually
• Includes budgeting and forecasting support with cost anomaly detection and alerts
• Create custom policies to automate cost control
• Facilitate collaborate in cloud cost management from a single place

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