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Cost Management

Cost Management & Azure Optimisation

Make your cloud pay for itself, by cutting Azure waste and taking control of Microsoft spend.

Overview

Stop paying for cloud you don't use

Most Microsoft 365 and Azure estates are quietly overpaying, not through one big mistake, but a year of unassigned licences, oversized VMs and forgotten resources nobody got round to switching off.

Who this is for
You own or influence the Azure / Microsoft 365 bill and it's crept up without a clear reason
Nobody has audited licence assignment or resource usage in the last 12 months
You need board-ready reporting, not just a one-off spreadsheet clean-up
The problem

Unused E5 seats, orphaned disks, oversized VMs and idle test environments: none of it shows up as a single alarming line item, it just erodes margin month after month until a renewal forces the conversation. The audit is the easy part, most businesses simply haven't done it.

How we help

Most organisations overspend on cloud by 30 to 40%. We continuously monitor your Microsoft and Azure estate to root out waste, right-size resources and re-forecast spend, so every pound works harder.

You get board-ready reporting and a partner who treats your cloud budget like their own, turning cost management from a once-a-year panic into a continuous discipline.

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What's included

Everything you need, managed for you

Azure waste and anomaly detection
Right-sizing of compute, storage and licences
Reserved instances and savings plan strategy
Microsoft 365 licence optimisation
Board-ready monthly cost reporting
Continuous forecasting and budget alerts
Frequently asked

Questions we hear a lot

How much can Azure cost optimisation actually save?

Most organisations overspend on cloud by 30 to 40%. Real recoverable savings depend on your estate, but right-sizing compute, cleaning up orphaned resources, applying reserved instances and cutting licence shelfware typically frees up a meaningful share of the bill within the first quarter.

Is this a one-off audit or ongoing?

We can do either, but the biggest results come from treating cost as a continuous discipline: monitoring, monthly reporting and budget alerts so savings don't quietly reappear as waste again next year.

Will cutting costs affect performance or reliability?

No. Right-sizing means matching resources to real utilisation, not starving them. We base every change on actual usage data, so you cut waste without touching the capacity your workloads genuinely need.

See where your cloud spend is leaking

Book a free cloud cost review and we'll pinpoint the Azure waste and Microsoft 365 shelfware you're paying for, typically 30-40% of cloud spend, and exactly how to claw it back.