Azure Cost Optimization Audit
The same sweep across Azure subscriptions, with Azure’s own cost mechanics in mind.
- Turnaround
- 5–7 business days
- Who it is for
- Teams on Azure, or running both clouds and treating them the same.
01 — The problem
Azure’s commitment model is not AWS’s. Reservations, savings plans and Hybrid Benefit interact in ways that reward planning and punish defaults — and most estates are running on defaults.
02 — What is included
Exactly what you get, and nothing vague.
- Subscription and management-group-wide resource inventory
- Azure Hybrid Benefit eligibility — frequently unclaimed and immediately worth money
- Reserved Instances and savings plan modelling against real usage
- App Service plan consolidation and AKS node pool right-sizing
- Storage tiering: Hot, Cool and Archive against actual access patterns
03 — What this usually finds
The recurring ones, named up front.
- Hybrid Benefit entitlements never applied
- App Service plans running one app each
- Premium managed disks on workloads that never touch the IOPS
- Orphaned public IPs and unattached disks after migrations
Listed because they recur, not because they are guaranteed. The audit reports what is actually there.
Next step
Twenty minutes to find out whether this is worth doing.
Every engagement runs under a signed mutual NDA with a read-only IAM role. If the audit would not pay for itself, I will say so on the call.