A structured review of your Azure spend that identifies the savings worth chasing — right-sizing, reserved capacity, idle resources, tagging gaps — and ranks them by impact.
Most Azure environments waste 20–40% of their spend. The waste isn't usually one big mistake; it's the slow accumulation of unused resources, over-provisioned VMs, missed Reserved Instance opportunities, and orphan disks from VMs that were deleted years ago.
This isn't a long engagement. It's two to four weeks of focused analysis using Microsoft Cost Management, Azure Advisor, and the resource metrics from your environment. We come out with a prioritized list of actions, ranked by impact and effort.
The output isn't a 60-slide deck. It's a one-page action plan with the top twenty things to fix, the estimated savings for each, and the difficulty of implementing them. Some you can do this week. Some need a change advisory board. We tell you which is which.
A cost optimization report with line-item savings opportunities — every right-sizing candidate, every Reserved Instance recommendation, every idle resource we found. Estimated monthly and annual savings totals.
Reserved Instance and Savings Plan purchase recommendations based on your usage pattern, with the commitment level that minimizes risk while capturing the discount. Tagging gap analysis so you can finally attribute cost to the teams responsible for it.
A list of quick wins — changes you can apply immediately, without waiting for approval cycles. Usually this list alone covers the cost of the engagement within the first month.
Week 1. Pull cost data from Microsoft Cost Management for the analysis period. Collect Azure Advisor recommendations across all subscriptions in scope. Gather resource utilization metrics — CPU, memory, network, IOPS — for VMs, databases, and storage.
Weeks 2–3. Identify waste in three categories — resources that should be turned off (idle, orphan, deallocated), resources that should be smaller (over-provisioned), and resources that should be committed (good candidates for Reserved Instances or Savings Plans). Rank by impact and effort.
Week 4. Deliver the report and a one-page action plan. Walk through it with your team. Identify which actions can be applied immediately, which need governance approval, and which need workload owner involvement. Quick wins are usually applied during the final week.
If you want to talk through your situation — current Azure spend, subscription structure, who pays for what — write to us.
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