CutAzureCosts.KeepPerformance.

Why Azure Bills Keep Growing

Azure costs grow for predictable reasons. Development environments that run 24/7 when they're only needed 9–5. Virtual machines sized for peak load that run at 8% utilisation 90% of the time. Databases with premium tier and IO provisioning that a Standard tier would handle comfortably. Blob storage with no lifecycle policy, accumulating years of data at hot tier prices. Log Analytics workspaces ingesting at 10x the volume needed for actual debugging.

The people who built the infrastructure provisioned conservatively, which made sense at the time. Nobody went back to right-size after the system stabilised. The infrastructure team is stretched on delivery work. The finance team sees the monthly invoice but doesn't know which line items are addressable. The developers don't think about cost — that's not their job.

The result is a bill that grows 15–30% per year with no corresponding growth in business value. Techseria's Azure Cost Optimisation engagement finds the addressable waste, quantifies the savings, and implements the fixes — with a fixed-price commitment and a guaranteed minimum savings estimate before any work starts.

What We Optimise

Compute and Containers

• VM right-sizing based on actual utilisation data — not guesses
• Dev/test environment scheduling — shutdown outside working hours
• AKS node pool right-sizing and autoscaling configuration
• Reserved Instance and Savings Plan recommendations with payback analysis
• Spot instance conversion for fault-tolerant workloads

Databases and Storage

• Azure SQL and PostgreSQL tier right-sizing
• Cosmos DB provisioned throughput vs serverless analysis
• Blob Storage lifecycle policies — automatic tiering to cool and archive
• Managed disk performance tier optimisation
• Snapshot and backup retention policy review

Networking

• Azure Firewall vs Network Security Groups cost trade-off analysis
• ExpressRoute vs VPN Gateway right-sizing
• Egress cost reduction through traffic routing and CDN strategy
• Public IP and load balancer consolidation

Monitoring and Logging

• Log Analytics workspace ingestion filtering
• Diagnostic setting rationalisation — collect what you need, not everything
• Application Insights sampling rate optimisation
• Alert rule and metric data retention review

Governance and Tagging

• Resource tagging strategy for cost allocation by team, product, or environment
• Budget alerts and cost anomaly detection configuration
• Azure Policy for cost control — enforce tagging, restrict expensive SKUs
• Subscription and resource group structure rationalisation

How It Works

Cost Audit — Week 1

We connect to your Azure environment via read-only access and analyse 90 days of billing data, utilisation metrics, and resource configuration. We identify every addressable cost item, estimate the savings, and categorise by effort: quick wins, sprint items, and architectural changes. We deliver a written report with a prioritised list and a total estimated monthly saving.

Optimisation Sprint — Weeks 2–6

We implement the agreed changes in a planned sequence — quick wins first, then structural optimisations. Each change is implemented with rollback capability and tested before the next. We document every change with before/after metrics so you can see the impact. Reserved Instance and Savings Plan purchases are timed for maximum impact after right-sizing is complete.

Governance Setup

We configure Cost Management budgets, alerts, and anomaly detection so that cost growth is visible in real time rather than discovered on the monthly invoice. We implement tagging policies that attribute spend to teams or products. We document the optimised state so your team understands what changed and why.

Pricing

Azure Cost Audit — £1,000–£2,500

Read-only analysis of your Azure environment covering compute, storage, database, networking, and monitoring. Delivered as a written report with quantified savings estimates and a prioritised action list. Typically delivered within five working days. Deductible from sprint cost if you proceed.

Optimisation Sprint — £5,000–£12,000

Fixed-price implementation of the agreed optimisations. Price depends on the complexity of the environment and the number of changes. Includes all implementation work, testing, documentation, and governance configuration.

Azure Managed Service — From £1,500/month

Ongoing Azure management: monthly cost review, right-sizing as utilisation changes, Reserved Instance renewal management, security patch monitoring, and incident response. Typically reduces cost by a further 5–10% per year compared to unmanaged environments.

Why Techseria

• Microsoft Solution Partner — verified expertise in Azure and Azure cost management
• Fixed-price with minimum savings guarantee — we commit to a minimum monthly saving before the audit starts
• UK overlap — Azure work coordinated in UK business hours, delivered by India-based cloud engineers
• No vendor dependency — we recommend what's right for your workload, not what drives Azure revenue
• Documentation-first — every optimisation is documented with rationale, so your team understands the environment after we're done
• 15 years of cloud delivery — Azure, AWS, and hybrid environments across finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and SaaS