Managed Service

Cloud Cost Reduction

Cloud bills rarely go up for one dramatic reason — they creep, quietly, through idle virtual machines, orphaned storage and licence tiers nobody's revisited since setup. We run a structured audit of your Azure, AWS or GCP environment, remove the waste, and put a process in place so it doesn't creep back.

Infrastructure Audit

We go through every subscription, account or project line by line, flagging idle virtual machines, orphaned storage volumes, forgotten snapshots and legacy resources still billing long after the project that created them ended.

Performance Right-Sizing

Compute and storage tiers get matched to what's actually being used, not what was guessed at during setup — so you keep the performance your team needs without paying for capacity that's sitting idle.

Licensing & Tier Alignment

We check your cloud service tiers and user licences against actual usage, so you're not paying for premium features nobody's touched, or missing a reserved or committed-use discount you already qualify for.

Ongoing Governance

A rightsized environment drifts back over time without someone watching it. We set up budget alerts and sit down for Quarterly Business Reviews to keep spend where it should be.

How the Engagement Works

A straightforward process, run in an order that keeps risk low and shows you the numbers before anything changes.

  • Initial audit. We pull a full resource inventory across your environment and cross-reference it against real utilisation data — no changes are made at this stage.
  • Findings report. A plain-English breakdown of what's wasted, what should be rightsized, and the estimated savings — reviewed with you before anything is touched.
  • Implementation. Changes are rolled out in order of impact and risk, starting with non-production environments before anything customer-facing is touched.
  • Ongoing monitoring & Quarterly Business Reviews. Budget alerts stay in place, and we sit down with you each quarter to walk through the billing data in plain English, so savings hold and your budget stays predictable.

Frequently Asked Questions

The audit itself is non-disruptive — we're reading usage data and billing reports, not touching live systems. Any changes that follow are staged, starting with non-production environments, and reviewed with you before anything customer-facing is touched.

All three. The audit methodology is the same regardless of platform — pull the real usage data, match it against what's provisioned, and flag the gap. Which specific tools we use to do that depends on which cloud you're on.

Either. Some businesses just want the initial audit and rightsizing done once. Others prefer to fold it into an ongoing arrangement with budget monitoring and Quarterly Business Reviews, so the savings don't quietly erode again over the following year.

Scope and cost depend on the size and complexity of your environment — a five-VM setup is a different job to a multi-subscription enterprise footprint. Book a consultation and we'll size the engagement to what you're actually running before quoting anything.

It depends on how long it's been since your environment was last reviewed, but double-digit percentage reductions are common on environments that have never been audited — idle VMs, orphaned storage and missed licensing alignment add up faster than most businesses expect.

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