Cloudyn

Cloudyn is a cloud management and cost optimisation platform designed to help enterprises monitor, manage and optimise spending across multi-platform and hybrid cloud environments. Founded in Israel, the company was acquired by Microsoft in 2017, and its technology was subsequently incorporated into Microsoft’s Azure Cost Management capabilities, so organisations evaluating Cloudyn today will largely encounter its functionality within Microsoft’s tools. The product addresses the challenge that organisations face in controlling cloud costs as usage grows across multiple providers and business units. Without clear visibility, spending can quickly escalate through idle resources, over-provisioned instances and poorly optimised purchasing. Cloudyn’s approach is to collect and analyse usage and billing data from cloud providers, allocate costs to departments and projects, and identify opportunities for savings, enabling enterprises to grow their cloud footprint with confidence and financial control.

Key capabilities include consolidated cost and usage reporting across cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, cost allocation and chargeback using tags and business hierarchies, and budgeting with alerts when spending approaches thresholds. Optimisation recommendations highlight underused or idle resources, rightsizing opportunities and potential savings from reserved instances or commitment-based discounts. Performance monitoring and inventory views help teams understand how resources are being used. Anomaly detection can highlight unexpected spikes in spending before they become significant. Dashboards provide finance, IT and business stakeholders with tailored views of cloud economics, supporting governance and accountability. As part of Microsoft’s cost management offering, these capabilities are now integrated with the Azure portal and related services. The platform is cloud-based and aimed at enterprises, managed service providers and organisations with significant or complex cloud estates, particularly those operating across multiple providers. A free version is available and a free trial is offered according to this listing, with paid plans starting from around USD 49.