Understand your cloud and AI costs
See what is driving spending, plan budgets and allocate costs to programs and teams. We review recommendations against your workload needs and help your team decide what to change.
Make spending easier to explain
Connect the Azure bill to the services your organisation runs
We review Azure spending and infrastructure to identify savings opportunities and the changes behind them. Budgets and cost allocation give finance, technology and program teams a shared basis for deciding what to address.
Each recommendation accounts for the workload’s demand, performance, security and service needs. Your responsible team agrees the action and checks its effect.
Decision trail
Make the tradeoff easy to inspect
Microsoft Cost Management and Azure Advisor show cost recommendations. A review must link each one to the workload and its owner.
Observe
Record the cost and usage signal
Use the right Azure scope and time period. Note what the data can and cannot show.
Review
Test the workload context
Check what the service needs. Cover demand, uptime, speed, security, and daily use before you suggest a change.
Recommend
State the option and its tradeoffs
Keep the saving estimate, its assumptions, the risk, and the proposed action in the same review.
Decide
Leave the action with the owner
The service team decides whether the change goes ahead, then checks the result against what the recommendation predicted.
CloudMonitor cost visibility
Keep cloud and AI costs visible after the review
Our CloudMonitor product tracks Azure, AWS and AI spending, supports budgets and allocates costs to programs and teams. Its access to billing data is read-only.
CloudMonitor also shows Microsoft 365 Copilot licence costs and highlights unused licences. Ask Finn explains spending changes in plain English and shows the sources behind the numbers.
Review inputs
Bring cost data and workload knowledge together
A useful review needs the Azure scope, the time period, the service owner, and the constraints that could rule out a change.
Agree the change and measure its effect
Set the baseline, service checks and decision owner before a change. Measure the result in your environment after the agreed action.
Find the next step for your cloud costs
Talk through your organisation's spending, budgets and cost allocation, or ask about a 30-day CloudMonitor trial.
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Explore the rest of the site or get in touch with the team.
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