Find the Azure and licensing spend you are not using
Non-production running around the clock, orphaned resources nobody decommissioned, and licences still assigned to leavers. Forty-five minutes to quantify yours.
Request this assessmentWho books this
- Your Azure bill has grown and nobody owns it
- A renewal is coming and you want to know what you actually need before it locks
- You cannot attribute spend to workloads or teams with any confidence
- You suspect you are paying for licences nobody uses but cannot prove it
What you get
- Where the spend actually goes, attributed rather than a single total
- Shelfware quantified: licences assigned to disabled or departed accounts
- Non-production and orphaned resources, listed with what they cost you
- What to change before the renewal, and what to leave alone
What we need from you
- Read access to Azure Cost Management, or an exported billing period
- Your Microsoft 365 licence assignment report, or admin centre access
- A leavers list for the last twelve months, if you can get one
When not to book this
If nobody internally will own the actions afterwards, this will not save you anything and we would rather say so now. Estates fall down on the report being read and nothing in it being assigned to a person with a date.
One we have done
34% Azure spend saved
How a continuous cost-optimisation programme recovered around a third of a client's Azure spend, funded from waste rather than capacity.
Read what we actually didA growing UK business. Our case studies are anonymised at our clients’ request, so they name no client and no sector.
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