Harness Cloud Cost Management

What Harness Cloud Cost Management is

Harness Cloud Cost Management is a web service for tracking cloud spending across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. It includes cost allocation, budget alerts, spend forecasting, rightsizing guidance, and commitment management. These tools cover assigning costs, monitoring budgets, estimating spend, and managing cloud commitments. Billing is based on tracked spend. The Free Plan costs nothing and includes community support. Fees for the Cloud Cost Management plan are charged as a percentage of tracked cloud spend: Cloud Cost Insights is charged at 1% of total tracked cloud spend, Commitment Orchestrator and Autostopping at 1.25% for specified spend, and Cluster Orchestrator at 2% of tracked Kubernetes cloud spend. Paid pricing is available on request. Harness was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Who it suits

It suits teams tracking costs across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. The listed tools may be useful to teams that need cost allocation, budget alerts, forecasting, rightsizing guidance, or commitment management.

Limits

The Free Plan costs nothing and includes community support. Paid plan fees are percentage-based: Cloud Cost Insights is 1% of total tracked cloud spend, Commitment Orchestrator and Autostopping are 1.25% for specified spend, and Cluster Orchestrator is 2% of tracked Kubernetes cloud spend.

Getting started

1. Open the Harness Cloud Cost Management website.
2. Use the web service.
3. Choose the Free Plan or request pricing for Cloud Cost Management.

Verdict

Harness Cloud Cost Management brings several cloud cost controls together for the three listed providers. The free tier has community support; paid fees are calculated as a percentage of tracked spend.