Question 1

How much can we realistically save?

Accepted Answer

Most environments we audit have 30–60% addressable waste. Quick wins alone — dev environment scheduling, obvious oversizing — typically deliver 15–25% savings with minimal effort. The full range depends on how the environment was originally provisioned and how long it's been running without a cost review.

Question 2

Will optimisation affect our application performance?

Accepted Answer

Right-sizing is done carefully. We analyse actual utilisation patterns before recommending downsizing, and we implement changes incrementally with monitoring in place. We don't make performance trade-offs without your approval — every recommendation specifies the expected utilisation headroom after the change.

Question 3

How long does the optimisation take?

Accepted Answer

The audit takes three to five working days. The implementation sprint is typically four to six weeks — quick wins in week one or two, structural optimisations through weeks three to six. We can accelerate if there's urgency.

Question 4

What access do you need?

Accepted Answer

For the audit, read-only access: Reader role at the subscription level plus Billing Reader. For implementation, we need Contributor access to specific resource groups, applied through your change management process. We don't require Owner or Global Admin.

Question 5

We already have Azure Advisor recommendations. Why do we need this?

Accepted Answer

Azure Advisor is a starting point, not a complete picture. It doesn't analyse utilisation patterns over time, doesn't model Reserved Instance economics properly, doesn't account for architectural trade-offs, and doesn't implement anything. We use Advisor output as one input alongside Cost Management data, utilisation metrics, and architectural analysis.

Question 6

Can you handle multi-subscription or enterprise environments?

Accepted Answer

Yes. We work with Management Group hierarchies and can analyse multiple subscriptions as a unit. Enterprise Agreement billing analysis is included. We'll discuss the scope and adjust pricing for larger environments.

Question 7

What happens after the sprint? Will costs creep back up?

Accepted Answer

Without governance, yes — costs will creep back over 12–18 months as new resources are provisioned without cost controls. The governance layer we implement (tagging policies, budgets, anomaly alerts, right-sizing schedules) is designed to prevent this. The managed service option maintains and extends the optimisation ongoing.

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Why Azure Bills Keep Growing

Conservative Over-Provisioning

Unmanaged storage & Logs

AKS & VM Scale Scheduling

Automated Lifecycle Policies

Systematic cloud bill reduction

Compute & Containers

Databases & Storage

Networking & Egress

Monitoring & Log Analytics

Governance & Tagging

How It Works

Cost Audit (Week 1)

Optimisation Sprint (Weeks 2–6)

Governance Setup

Azure Cost Optimization Packages

Azure Cost Audit

Optimisation Sprint

Azure Managed Service

Proven FinOps capability on Azure

Microsoft Partner

Savings Commitment

UK/India Sync

Documentation-First

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