Azure Cost Optimisation Assessment
Reduce and control your cloud spend.
Croft’s Azure Cost Optimisation Assessment is a detailed evaluation of your organisation’s Azure cloud infrastructure to identify opportunities for reducing costs while maintaining or improving performance and operational efficiency.
Azure, being a cloud service, has a pay-as-you-go model, which can lead to escalating costs if not properly monitored or optimised. The goal of the assessment is to help businesses reduce unnecessary spending and ensure they are using Azure resources in a cost-efficient way.
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Benefits of a Azure Cloud Optimisation Assessment
Identify unused resources
Identify idle virtual machines (VMs), ExpressRoute circuits, and other resources. Get recommendations on which resources to shut down, and see how much you would save.
Reduce costs
On average 30% of Cloud spend is wasted through poor cost and technical optimisation. Decrease your spend by making informed data driven decisions.
Control costs
Mitigate cloud spending risks, implement cost controls and guardrails for your environment. Create and manage budgets for your Azure services.
Key Components of an Azure Cost Optimisation Assessment
Resource Usage Review
Identify underutilised or idle resources like virtual machines, databases, or storage. For example, a virtual machine running 24/7 but only used during business hours might be scaled down or scheduled to shut down during non-usage hours.
Right-Sizing
Checking if resources are over-provisioned. Right-sizing involves adjusting the resource sizes to better match the actual workloads. For example, using a larger virtual machine than necessary for a particular workload.
Reserved and Spot Instances
Recommend the purchase of Azure Reserved instances, which allow businesses to save costs by committing to a one-year or three-year term rather than using pay-as-you-go pricing. Identify opportunities to use Azure Spot instances for workloads that are fault-tolerant or not time-sensitive, as they are offered at a much lower price compared to on-demand instances.
Optimising Storage Costs
Reviewing data storage options and moving data to lower-cost storage tiers like Cool Blob Storage or Archive Storage if the data is infrequently accessed.
Licensing and Pricing Models
Ensuring your business is using the best pricing model for its workloads, which could include transitioning to pay-as-you-go, exploring Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows or SQL Server, or utilising other pricing offers and discounts.
Cost monitoring, alerts and automation
Setting up Azure Cost Management and billing alerts to keep track of expenditure and prevent unexpected cost spikes. Using automation tools such as Azure Automation to schedule shutting down non-production environments during off-peak hours, can lead to significant savings.
Governance and Policies
Establishing policies to ensure that resources are tagged properly for visibility, accountability, and billing purposes, and that cost management practices are enforced across the organisation.
Cloud Migration
Evaluate whether certain workloads can be migrated to more cost-effective Azure services, such as moving from virtual machines to Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions like Azure App Service.
Why choose Croft for your Azure Cost Optimisation Assessment
Croft are Azure cloud experts dedicated to empowering your business. We streamline your Azure environment, handling everything from migration to cost optimisation.
Our team of Azure specialists works alongside your IT professionals, providing the support and knowledge needed to maximise your cloud investment.
We’re here to help you get the most of your Azure environment.
We support a range of organisations across the UK
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