Waste and capacity
Oversized VMs, unattached disks and snapshots, storage, networking, forgotten environments, schedules and AKS capacity.
Azure Cost Optimization (FinOps)
If Azure spend is growing without clear ownership, we show CTO and finance teams what drives it across compute, AKS, storage and commitments, then prioritise safe actions and forecasting improvements.
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FinOps & Costs
WE CAN HELP IF
The Microsoft Azure bill grows every month, but traffic or client count does not.
A material part of spend cannot be clearly allocated to an application, product, environment or department.
You are afraid to turn off running services in case "something breaks", eating the cost instead.
You want to assess Reservations or Azure Savings Plans without committing spend before usage is understood.
CTO, CFO and engineering teams use different numbers and explain variances too late.
What an Azure Cost Optimization Assessment covers
It is a technical and financial review of consumption, configuration and ownership. The goal is not blind cost cutting, but a prioritised backlog separating safe savings, commercial commitments and architecture changes.
Control and accountability
Tags, budgets, anomaly alerts, allocation by team, product or environment, and an owner for each material cost.
Forecasting for CTO and CFO
Forecasts, scenarios and unit economics for informed decisions, with assumptions and variances made explicit rather than promising an exact number.
Commit only after optimisation
We compare Reservations, Savings Plans and Azure Hybrid Benefit only when the usage pattern is stable and measurable.
OUR APPROACH
WHAT WE EXACTLY DO
Visibility and allocation
We review subscriptions, resource groups, tags and Azure Cost Management data to connect spend with products, environments, teams and owners.
Architecture and capacity
We compare usage, performance and risk across compute, storage, networking, databases, managed services and AKS before proposing changes.
Governance and forecasting
We define budgets, alerts, owners, reporting and forecasting assumptions that engineering and finance can review together.
Purchasing strategies
We compare Reservations, Savings Plans and Azure Hybrid Benefit against actual usage before committing spend.
SERVICE SCOPE
WHAT OUR WORK INCLUDES
01
Inventory and ownership
A map of resources, subscriptions, resource groups, tagging exceptions and material costs without a clear owner.
02
Budgets and anomalies
Budgets, actual or forecast cost alerts, and detection of unexpected usage changes with a defined review process.
03
Efficient architecture
Assessment of VMs, storage, networking, databases, PaaS and AKS against cost, performance, criticality and change effort.
04
Forecasting and variance
Growth scenarios, seasonality, commitments and planned changes with assumptions and forecast limits made visible.
OUTCOMES
WHAT IT BRINGS TO THE TEAM AND BUSINESS
An optimisation backlog prioritised by estimated impact, effort, owner and operational risk.
A shared view of spend across engineering, technology and finance.
Better predictability and context to explain variances before month-end.
Commitment decisions separated from technical changes and based on sufficiently stable usage.
HOW IT WORKS
HOW TO START AND WHAT TO EXPECT
1
Agree scope and access
We confirm subscriptions, analysis period, owners, available data and read-only access where that is sufficient.
2
Build the baseline
We analyse historical billing and usage, allocation, variance and known changes to avoid conclusions without context.
3
Validate opportunities
We confirm with owners what can be stopped, resized, reconfigured or committed without treating every underused resource as waste.
4
Prioritise and transfer
We deliver a backlog, document assumptions and agree who executes each action and how outcomes will be measured.
WHAT YOU GET
CLEAR DELIVERABLES
- Spend baseline, allocation and principal variances.
- Prioritised backlog with estimates, dependencies, owners and risk.
- Dashboard or reporting model by product, team or environment within scope.
- Reasoned recommendation on Reservations, Savings Plans and other options where applicable.
- Governance, measurement and knowledge-transfer plan.
WHO THIS IS FOR
WHEN IT MAKES SENSE
This service is for you if:
- Organisations with material Azure spend that need to understand drivers and ownership before optimising.
- CTOs, CFOs and engineering leaders who need a shared baseline and forecasting process.
- Teams assessing architecture and commitments without indiscriminate cuts.
We do not recommend it if:
- Environments without access to billing, metrics or owners who can validate actual usage.
- Organisations seeking a guaranteed savings percentage before assessment.
- Multi-cloud FinOps programmes focused on a cross-provider operating model and governance; that is a different scope.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Do you guarantee savings on the Azure bill?+
We do not promise a percentage before analysing the environment. The assessment quantifies opportunities, implementation cost and risk so you can decide with evidence.
What if we take on a commitment we later underuse?+
We optimise first and review stability, scope and utilisation before recommending Reservations or Savings Plans. Their terms and flexibility are not the same.
LET’S TALK ABOUT YOUR SITUATION
Tell us the context simply. We will explain whether this service fits, what must be reviewed and the smallest useful starting point.