CloudHealth is good at multi-cloud cost. Here's what it doesn't do for Azure.

StratoLens isn't a multi-cloud replacement for CloudHealth. If you live in Azure, it's something different: deep infrastructure documentation, change history, and cost context that never leaves your own tenant. CloudHealth sends your data to its platform to analyze it. StratoLens runs inside your subscription.

Capability by capability

An honest look. Where CloudHealth covers it, we say so. This compares CloudHealth against StratoLens for an Azure estate, not across every cloud CloudHealth supports.

Comparison of CloudHealth and StratoLens by capability for Azure
Capability	CloudHealth	StratoLens
Multi-cloud coverage (AWS, Azure, GCP)	Yes Built for multi-cloud from day one. One cost pane across AWS, Azure, and GCP is its core strength.	No Azure only, by design. Skipping multi-cloud abstraction is what lets it go deep on Azure Resource Graph, Activity Logs, and topology.
Your data stays inside your own tenant	No A third-party SaaS platform: billing, usage, and configuration data is ingested into the vendor's environment to be analyzed.	Yes Deploys as a Managed Application inside your own Azure tenant. Inventory and cost data never leave your subscription.
Mature cost allocation with chargeback-ready exports and per-customer invoicing for MSPs	Yes Deep allocation engine with flexible perspectives and shared-cost reallocation, refined over years for enterprise FinOps and MSP use.	Partial Cost Explorer, anomaly detection, and commitment coverage cover the common cases, but it is not a full enterprise chargeback engine.
Reservation and Savings Plan optimization	Yes Established commitment recommendations and utilization tracking across accounts and clouds.	Yes One dashboard for every Azure commitment: utilization trends, underutilization alerts, expiring-commitment warnings, and purchase recommendations.
Azure infrastructure documentation beyond cost	Partial Strong on cost and usage, with a basic asset-relationship view. Azure network topology (VNet, subnet, NSG, routing) and estate documentation are not the focus.	Yes Interactive network diagrams, resource relationships, and an always-current map of the estate, generated automatically from scans.
Change history with side-by-side config diffs	Partial Retains about 13 months of cost history and shows current resource configuration, but point-in-time infrastructure snapshots and side-by-side config diffs are not its job.	Yes Full infrastructure snapshots on every scan. Compare any two points in time with side-by-side diffs and change attribution.
RBAC analysis with usage data and nested Entra groups	Partial IAM coverage is limited to CIS benchmark compliance checks like MFA enforcement and flagging too many subscription Owners. It does not analyze RBAC role assignments, correlate access with usage, or resolve nested Entra ID groups.	Yes Correlates role assignments with up to 365 days of Activity Log data and resolves nested Entra ID group memberships down to individual users.
Flat, predictable pricing (not a percentage of spend)	No Sold through Broadcom via Arrow Electronics on multi-year contracts, with cost that scales alongside the cloud spend under management, the spend you are trying to reduce.	Yes Flat tiers with every feature included: no per-seat licensing, no percentage of spend. Its own infrastructure typically runs under $1/day.
Start without an enterprise sales process	No Onboarding runs through sales, contracts, and platform configuration before you see value.	Yes Deploy the Managed Application into your tenant and run your first scan the same day. No procurement cycle required.

Where the difference shows up

If you're Azure-first paying for multi-cloud...

Plenty of "multi-cloud" estates are really Azure with a little of something else, paying for breadth they barely touch while the Azure depth they need stays shallow. StratoLens focuses every dollar on Azure: cost anomalies tied to the change that caused them, orphaned resources, and commitment wastage in one place.

StratoLens for FinOps

If your data can't leave the tenant...

Security and compliance teams increasingly push back on shipping billing, usage, and configuration data to a third-party SaaS platform. StratoLens deploys as a Managed Application inside your own subscription, so the estate it documents never leaves your environment, and it keeps the snapshot and access history an audit asks for.

StratoLens for compliance

If you need more than cost...

CloudHealth answers "what did we spend?" well. When the question becomes "what changed, who has access, and how is this network actually wired?" a cost platform runs out of room. StratoLens gives platform teams documentation, change history, and topology alongside the cost picture.

StratoLens for platform teams

Where CloudHealth fits

If you run a genuine multi-cloud estate across AWS, Azure, and GCP and need one cost pane over all of it, with mature allocation, showback, and chargeback built for enterprise FinOps or managed-service providers, CloudHealth, now part of Broadcom, is purpose-built for that and does it well. That breadth is the whole point of the platform.

The line most Azure-first teams cross sooner than expected is depth. The moment a security review questions why cost and configuration data is leaving your tenant for a third-party platform, an audit needs Azure RBAC history and config diffs a cost tool never captured, or finance pushes back on a bill that scales with the very spend you are trying to cut, breadth stops being the thing that matters. That's the gap StratoLens closes for Azure estates: deep infrastructure documentation, change and access history, and cost context, all inside your own tenant, on flat pricing that doesn't grow with your bill.