Azure FinOps Cost Optimization Assessment by Reply

Optimizing and Mastering your Azure Costs

Overview

Have your Azure cloud costs increased? Do you have unused Azure resources that you are not using?

Often, cloud resources are scaled incorrectly when purchasing them. After a few months, many companies find that the use of the resources they have purchased is not effective in many cases.

Our one-day workshop starts right there and helps you set your resources to the right level so that you can manage your cloud costs appropriately. It aims to optimize your cloud financial management and increase the effectiveness of your Azure resources.

With extensive experience in Azure services and management, Reply delivers solutions that align with your specific business needs. Utilizing best practices, Reply ensures that your Azure resource setup is both efficient and scalable, ready to support your organization’s growth while controlling costs.

What’s Included:

• Achieving this, the first step, our experts analyze the existing Azure resources. In the second step we show how Azure costs can be reduced and then discuss the results with you to finally define an adaptation plan together.
• Initial Analysis: Review Azure costs using cost analysis (accumulated cost view, actual costs, forecasts, budgets, charts, etc.)
• Customize cost views (“dashboards”) to answer the following questions:
  • How much have I spent so far this month? Am I exceeding my budget?
  • Has there been an increase in daily costs in the last 30 days?
  • How has my monthly usage varied over the last three bills?
  • Which resources have cost the most so far this month?
  • Which fees were listed on my last invoice?
  • What incurred which costs?
• Strategic Planning: Develop a customized plan for adjusting your Azure resources to save money and effort by leveraging the following features:
  • Cost optimization with Advisor recommendations
  • Scaling measures (Reserved Instances, Savings)
  • Cost control with the budget function
  • Evaluate and monitor costs, budget and optimal scaling

Outcomes

• Efficient resource use: Through this workshop, we help you optimize your used resources and keep your end costs as low as possible.
• Understand end usage: Savings of your current cloud costs
• Effective down scaling: Find out in what areas you can reduce your current resource usage, including virtual machines or the downscaling of app services
• Draft an Adoption Roadmap: Create a high-level roadmap for reducing unneeded costs in Azure

Requirements

• IT Manager, Billing or Financial Stakeholders