Azure FinOps Review
Where your Azure spend leaks, found and costed in two weeks.
A fixed-fee review of your Azure consumption, commitments, and licensing. You get a ranked list of cuts with the euro figure on each, and the cost-allocation model that keeps the spend from creeping back.
- Fixed fee
- €6,500
- Duration
- 2 weeks
- Format
- Remote
At a glance
- Fixed fee
- €6,500
- Duration
- 2 weeks
- Format
- Remote
- Fee credit
- Creditable in full within 8 weeks
- Markets served
- DACH and Benelux
Who it's for
- Your Azure bill climbs every quarter and no one can say which workloads drive it.
- Finance wants a cloud spend forecast and your tagging will not support one.
- You suspect you are paying on-demand for capacity you could commit, but you have not run the numbers.
- Your reserved instances and savings plans were bought years ago against a workload footprint that has since changed shape.
- You want the case for a FinOps practice to survive contact with your CFO, with the euro figure attached, not a slide about maturity.
Scope and format
Two weeks, remote. We read your consumption across the subscriptions in scope: rightsizing and idle resources, reserved instances and savings plans, storage tiers, and your Enterprise Agreement or MCA discount position. We check whether your tagging and cost allocation can carry a forecast. Led by a senior architect who has taken 34% off a three-year Azure TCO. You give us read-only Cost Management and billing access and one point of contact.
What you get
Ranked savings list
Every cut sized in euros and ordered by what it returns against the effort to make it. The same method has taken 22% off live monthly Azure spend on a prior estate.
Commitment plan
The reserved-instance and savings-plan coverage that fits your real usage, with the break-even on each.
Rightsizing and waste report
The over-provisioned, idle, and orphaned resources, named per subscription.
Cost allocation and tagging model
A tag and showback structure your finance team can forecast against.
Anomaly and alerting baseline
Cost anomaly detection configured against your actual spend pattern, so the next runaway resource gets caught in days, not at the next invoice.
Readout session
A working session to walk the savings and agree what gets actioned first.
Pricing
A fixed fee of €6,500. The review is built to pay for itself out of the first cuts it finds.
The full fee is creditable against a follow-on optimisation or platform engagement booked within eight weeks of the readout.
Where your data sits
A remote review with read-only Cost Management and billing access, scoped to the review and revoked on completion. No data leaves your tenant, and we sign your data processing agreement before kickoff.
Governance & compliance
- Read-only Cost Management and billing access, scoped to the review and revoked on completion.
- No write access to any resource at any point.
- A signed data processing agreement before kickoff.
- Savings and assumptions documented so your finance team can verify each figure.
Common questions
How long does it take?
Two weeks, from access granted to the readout session.
Will the savings cover the fee?
On most estates of any size, the rightsizing and commitment moves alone clear the fee in the first months. If the review finds less than its own fee in available savings, we tell you that plainly in the readout.
Do you make the changes?
The review hands your team a ranked list it can action. If you want us to implement the cuts, the fee is creditable in full against that engagement if you book within eight weeks.
Do you need write access?
No. Read-only Cost Management and billing access is enough for the review.
Who actually runs the review, and do I get handed off to a delegate?
The senior architect who leads the review carries it end to end, from the first Cost Management pull to the readout. You are not handed off to a delegate partway through.
How does this interact with our Enterprise Agreement discount negotiation?
The review reads your current EA or MCA discount position as part of the two weeks and flags where the negotiated rate no longer matches actual usage. It does not replace your Microsoft account team negotiation, but it gives you the consumption evidence to run that negotiation from strength.
What if you find a runaway cost mid-review?
We flag it the day we find it, not at the readout. An idle resource or a misconfigured autoscale burning spend does not wait two weeks to be reported.
Do you look at Azure only, or other cloud spend too?
Azure only. If AWS or GCP spend sits alongside it, we say where the same method would apply, but the fixed fee covers the Azure estate.
What if our spend is already well optimised?
Then the review is short and says so, with the smaller remaining savings still on the list. A clean bill of health from an independent review is itself useful evidence for your board or your auditor.
Does the review cover licensing, or just infrastructure spend?
Both. Azure Hybrid Benefit, Reserved Instance eligibility, and your EA or MCA licensing terms are read alongside the infrastructure spend, since the two decisions are rarely made by the same person.