Azure Cost Optimisation Assessment
Understand your Azure costs, find opportunities to reduce spent, get recommendations to ensure correct performance and get advice on your cost governance processes.
About Azure Cost Optimisation Assessment
We understand that after a period of growth or extra development, the company’s Azure spend can increase significantly or that many companies don’t have processes to manage their Azure subscriptions and understand the costs of the resources they are utilising.
Data-Driven’s Azure cost optimisation assessment aims to understand your company’s current Azure estate, use and over/underutilized resources, and help you design a strategic roadmap to remove or scale down/up your Azure services in order to reduce Azure spent.
This includes ensuring the system performance remained unaffected, plus a series of recommendations to improve Azure cost management going forward.
How does our Cost Optimisation Assessment work?
Workshop
Workshop with relevant stakeholders to understand the current application deployment in Azure and the existing Azure infrastructure
Audit & Review
Understand your company’s current Azure estate (current versus budget) and identify redundant and over-sized resources.
Assess the following components:
- Performance Efficiency
- Current Infrastructure
- Data Quality and Size
- Business Needs
- Cost optimisation Opportunities
Documentation
Your customized report will include:
- The actions to take/low-hanging fruit for quick wins to save $
- A list of resources that are redundant and can be disabled or removed
- Identify cost savings opportunities and underutilized resources
- Recommendations for improving the management of your resources and cost governance
Final Presentation
Presentation of the current findings, strategic recommendations to optimise your Azure spend every month and set a good governance process for better cost management.

The Benefits of our Cost Optimisation Assessment
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Reduce your Cost and Increase Profit
Only pay for what you need by following our recommendations to save money with quick wins.

Gain Control of your Costs
You can’t control what you can’t see. We’ll help you understand your environment, usage, and expenditure.

Improved Cost Governance & Accountability
Get recommendations for cost controls and best practices to ensure the right people are accountable for costs.
Cost Optimisation Assessment Objectives
Our objective is to help you reduce your Azure spend by “right-sizing” resources to match their needed workload, removing unused resources, and improving your cost management process.
Cost Saving
- Which resources to scale down or stop completely
- When to pause or scale down expensive services in workflows
- Reduce security risks by removing zombie resources
- When to schedule shutdowns
- When to use Reserved Instances, Tiering, Replication & other tips
Cost Management
- Understand your current cost governance processes
- Better accountability for costs in your team
- Suggestions for enabling Azure features like Budgeting, Recommendations, etc.
- Recommendations for Cost Management and Best practices moving forward
Would you like to reduce your Azure costs with CloudMonitor?
CloudMonitor monitors your cloud consumption costs and looks for cost-saving opportunities so you only pay for what you need. CloudMonitor finds over-sized resources and services that are no longer in use and suggests best-practices based on real-time utilization patterns.
Keep track of your cloud spend automatically with CloudMonitor
Our Azure Cost Optimisation Assessment solutions comes with a 1 year license to CloudMonitor, a cost optimisation and governance tool that sits inside your Azure environment.
CloudMonitor monitors your cloud consumption costs and looks for cost-saving opportunities so you only pay for what you need. It finds over-sized resources and services that are no longer in use and suggests best-practices based on real-time utilization patterns.