What we do
FinOps & Cost Management
We find out where the Azure bill is going, then change the things that move it: commitment coverage, waste and licensing position.
- Frameworks
- CAF: Govern, Manage · Well-Architected: Cost Optimisation
- Good first step
- Microsoft CAF Readiness Assessment, a baseline in 3–4 weeks
The problem
Azure cost work often stops at a dashboard. Reducing the bill takes three more things: a tagging model finance recognises, commitment coverage reviewed on a regular cadence, and someone with the authority to switch things off. Until those are in place, the monthly bill is something you explain after it arrives.
You probably need this if
- The monthly Azure bill goes up and the explanation is vague each time
- Attributing spend to a cost centre takes a spreadsheet and some guesswork
- Reservation and savings plan coverage was set once and has not been reviewed since
- Finance asks what next quarter will cost and the answer is a rough estimate
What the service covers
- 1Tagging and showback model mapped to your cost centres, enforced by policy at deployment
- 2Reservation and savings plan coverage analysis, reviewed quarterly against actual usage
- 3Rightsizing and orphaned-resource sweeps: unattached disks, idle gateways, over-provisioned App Service plans
- 4Azure Hybrid Benefit and licensing position review, which is where the largest single savings usually sit
- 5Budgets and anomaly alerting routed to the team that can act on them
- 6A cost review cadence your team runs after handover: monthly variance against forecast, with an agenda and owner already agreed
Other areas we work in
All 8 areasAzure Platform Architecture
We design the Azure platform, check that it holds under its own governance, and hand it to your team with the controls already deployed.
Cloud Security Architecture
We design the detection, tune it to your estate, and hand your team a backlog they can work through.
Governance & Compliance
We set up Cloud Adoption Framework governance as working controls in Azure, with the evidence to show an auditor when they ask.
Where the first savings usually are
In most estates the first savings come from reservation and savings plan coverage, followed by resources that are still running but no longer used. The Cloud Cost Assessment puts a monthly value against each change in two to three weeks.