Identify and implement practical Azure cost savings while maintaining performance, security, and operational resilience through a structured FinOps-aligned assessment.
Azure spend becomes unpredictable when environments grow without standardised governance. Common drivers include over-sized compute, unused resources, misconfigured scaling, duplicate services, and logging retention that is not aligned to the business need. Organisations also miss savings opportunities such as reservations, savings plans, and rightsizing because ownership is unclear and cost visibility is fragmented. The result is that cost control becomes reactive and engineering teams lose confidence in which changes are safe to make.
LW IT Solutions delivers Azure Cost Optimisation Assessment as a structured review and improvement plan. We analyse your Azure environment through a FinOps lens, identify cost drivers, and produce a prioritised remediation backlog with clear actions, owners, and risk notes. Where you want implementation support, we can deliver the remediation changes in phases, ensuring that performance and security are not compromised. Savings opportunities vary based on your workload types and consumption patterns, which we validate during the assessment.
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Service Overview
Highlights
- FinOps-aligned assessment focused on real consumption patterns
- Covers compute, storage, networking, logging, and platform services
- Explicit treatment of reservations and savings plans suitability
- Clear separation between low-risk quick wins and higher-impact changes
- Designed to support ongoing cost control, not one-off savings
Business Benefits
- Reduced Azure spend through removal of unused and over-sized resources
- Improved confidence in cost changes with clear risk and impact notes
- More predictable monthly spend through rightsizing and scaling alignment
- Clear ownership of cost drivers across subscriptions and teams
- Stronger financial governance without degrading performance or security
Typical use cases
- Rapidly growing Azure environments with rising monthly spend
- Post-migration reviews after moving workloads to Azure
- Organisations lacking clear cost ownership or tagging discipline
- Engineering teams hesitant to make cost changes due to risk
- Preparation for budgets, forecasts, or executive cost reviews
Objectives & deliverables
What Success Looks Like
- Identify quick wins that reduce waste without impacting services
- Right-size resources based on usage, performance, and availability requirements
- Optimise scaling strategies for predictable demand and peak patterns
- Improve cost visibility by aligning tagging, budgets, and reporting
- Develop a sustainable FinOps operating model for continuous optimisation
What You Get
- Cost optimisation assessment report with findings and prioritised recommendations
- Quick-win action list with low-risk savings opportunities
- Implementation backlog with complexity, risk notes, and owner suggestions
- Governance recommendations for continuous cost visibility (tagging, budgets, alerts)
- Optional delivery plan for implementing savings in controlled phases
How It Works
- Discovery - confirm scope, subscription structure, cost concerns, and optimisation goals
- Analyse - review spend by service, subscription, and workload to identify cost drivers
- Optimise - identify rightsizing, scaling, reservation, savings plan, and waste removal actions
- Prioritise - build a remediation backlog with savings estimates, effort, and risk notes
- Handover - present findings, agree next steps, and provide guidance for ongoing optimisation
Engagement Options
- Assessment Only - cost review and prioritised optimisation backlog
- Assessment + Quick Wins - assessment plus implementation of low-risk savings
- Full Optimisation - phased delivery of approved remediation actions
- Operate - ongoing FinOps reviews, reporting, and optimisation support
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