Azure Cost Optimization Assessment

Unlock significant cost savings and maximize the value of your Azure investment

Our comprehensive Azure Cost Optimization Assessment evaluates your environment to provide insights on cloud spend, identify inefficiencies, optimize resources and align your cloud budget with business priorities. Our proven methodology ensures you achieve sustainable cost optimization while maintaining performance, reliability and security standards.

Key Deliverables & Outcomes

Comprehensive Cost Analysis

• Gain clarity and visibility into your Azure bills
• Analyze spending trends and resource consumption

Optimization Opportunities

• Identify immediate areas for cost savings
• Guidance to optimize resources through right-sizing, identifying un or under used services

FinOps Governance & Policies

• Evaluate cost management policies and budgets alerts
• Recommend tagging and chargeback models for better cost visibility and breakdown

Day Two Recommendations

• Actionable recommendations for automation and policies to enforce cost management
• Include strategies for licensing optimization, savings plans and reservations

Executive Summary Report

• Deliver a clear and concise write up summarizing findings, recommendations, and next steps

Engagement Details

Our Methodology

1. Orient
   • Understand business goals and priorities
   • Define scope and process
2. Assess
   • Survey Azure subscriptions, resources, usage, and billing data
   • Leverage Azure native as well as third party collection tools
3. Analyze
   • Perform a deep dive data analysis to provide clarity on cloud spend
   • Benchmark costs and utilization against industry standards and best practices
4. Recommend
   • Present key findings tailored to business context and goals
   • Actionable recommendations for immediate and long-term optimizations
5. Consult
   • Debrief to align on action plan and next steps

Benefits

• Achieve significant cost savings (typically 10-20%) with targeted recommendations
• Enhance financial transparency and accountability
• Improve resource utilization and efficiency
• Build a foundation for continuous cost management and optimization

Why Choose Us

• Proven Expertise: Experienced consultants with deep knowledge in Azure and industry best practices
• Tailored Approach: Recommendations aligned with your business goals and current context
• Actionable Insights: Deliverables designed to empower action straight away
• Continuous Value: Optional follow-up engagement to enact suggested changes and ensure sustained savings

Next Steps

Post Assessment: Aptum provides professional services or managed services to achieve savings.