Controlling Azure Costs with FinOps
FinOps is becoming increasingly essential for effective cloud cost management. As companies move from migration to optimising their cloud estates, controlling expenses can be challenging. Complex billing and cost allocation often create confusion. Our Azure FinOps assessment provides the clarity you need, offering insights into overspending, actionable recommendations, and long-term strategies for continuous optimisation—ensuring your cloud investments deliver maximum value.
The FinOps methodology
Through the key principles of Inform, Optimise, and Operate, FinOps helps organisations gain control of their cloud investments while driving efficiency and accountability across teams.
Inform
Setting the foundation for financial success
Optimise
Unleashing the Full Potential of Your Cloud Resources
Operate
Streamlining Operations for Ongoing Efficiency
Optimising Company-wide Cloud Spend
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across our customers’ Azure bills though our FinOps Assessment
What is an Azure FinOps Assessment?
As cloud migration trends begin to stabilise, many companies are now focused on managing their cloud estates. However, controlling costs in the cloud often proves more challenging than anticipated. From navigating complex billing structures to allocating costs across departments, this is uncharted territory for many organisations.
Our Cloud Spend Management service is designed to simplify this process, providing clear visibility into areas of overspend, actionable insights for immediate improvements, and most importantly, education on long-term strategies for continuous optimisation. With our support, you’ll gain the tools to keep cloud costs under control, now and in the future.
Complete Transparency
Not only will you gain a clear view of the entire optimisation process, but you’ll also achieve full visibility into every aspect of your cloud spend. With this enhanced insight, you can understand spending patterns, identify cost drivers, and make informed decisions to control your cloud investments effectively.
Tagging for Chargeback
Through comprehensive tagging, we can accurately identify the sources of cloud spending within your business, allowing you to implement effective chargeback and showback mechanisms across the organisation. Additionally, this tagging provides valuable insights for deeper analysis and optimisation.
We Take It Step-By-Step
Following the FinOps framework, we guide you through each step of the process—helping you understand the sources of your cloud costs, identify optimisation opportunities, and recommend actionable solutions for improvement.
It's not just optimisation
Our service includes reviews of MACC management, Log analytics, and Security. We can also expand the offering to include M365 optimisation, CoPilot readiness, and governance and compliance, providing a comprehensive approach to optimising your cloud environment.
Like what you see?
Speak with the team to discuss how we can support your optimisation journey!
Contact usWho is an assessment suitable for?
Customers operating in Azure who want to optimise their environment and get full control of their cloud spend.
Those who didn't get to perform a 'pre-migration' assessment and now have a lot of wasted resources in the cloud.
A partner (including CSPs) looking to improve customer relations by offering optimisation services and get detailed views of their customer base in one place.
How does an assessment work?
Initial Conversation
We will have an introduction call to learn more about your needs, show you the power of our services and demonstrate appropriate tooling.
Health Check
Depending on the appropriate tool, we can set up a trial of the service to show you a 'Health Check' - essentially our time to show you what we can do!
Build Sales Proposal
We will share with you a proposal for the service, usually incorporating the findings from our 'Health Check'.
Discuss Feedback
Time for us to discuss the proposal and hear your thoughts and feedback to make sure we can get the service right for you.
Let's get started!
We've dotted the I's and crossed the T's now its time to start the service. This will usually involve a tool deployment session.
Enjoy the the new service
Start seeing those savings roll in.
Are you a Partner (including CSPs)?
Looking for ways to manage all your customers’ Azure estates in one place? Want to improve your relationships with your customers? Or, want a quick way to identify which customers need help?
Our FinOps offering can answer all of those and more. With specialised tooling, you can manage all your customers in one place and run campaigns to identify those that can optimise their environment further, or even who would be a great candidate for Microsoft incentives.
We are already helping partners globally, including both CSP Providers and Resellers, better manage their customer estates. Contact us to find out how we can help you.
'What excites me most about FinOps is the opportunity to leverage my prior experience in Cloud Operations where I supported customers in their cloud adoption journey, provided tailored cloud solutions, and helped optimise their cloud spending.'