Azure bills grow quietly: a development environment left running, a premium disk on a test server, a reservation that no longer matches usage. FinOps for Azure makes cost visible, shared and continuously optimised.
Visibility
- Enforce tagging for owner, application, environment and cost centre with Azure Policy.
- Use Cost Management views and exports to report spend by team and product.
- Set budgets with alerts for every subscription or product.
Optimisation levers
Rightsizing
Azure Advisor highlights underused virtual machines and databases. Review recommendations monthly and act on them.
Commitments
Azure Reservations and Azure savings plan for compute reduce costs for steady workloads. Match commitments carefully to forecast usage.
Licensing benefits
Azure Hybrid Benefit lets eligible Windows Server and SQL Server licences reduce cloud costs.
Scheduling and storage tiers
Shut down non production resources out of hours and move infrequently used data to cooler storage tiers.
Operating rhythm
Hold a monthly cost review with product owners, track savings achieved and make cost a standard item in architecture decisions.
Our Cost Optimization Assessment identifies savings in weeks, and our Azure services keep them in place.
