Cloud Cost Optimisation
Cloud cost optimisation
Review and improve the cost, performance and architecture of your cloud environment — so spending matches actual usage and stays under control.
How do you reduce cloud costs?
Cloud costs are reduced by removing waste (unused and orphaned resources), right-sizing over-provisioned services, scheduling non-production resources to switch off, using reservations or savings plans for predictable workloads, choosing appropriate storage tiers and licences, and putting budgets, tagging and regular review in place so costs stay controlled.
Cloud cost is a management discipline
Cloud bills grow quietly: test environments that never switch off, disks left behind when servers were deleted, virtual machines sized for a peak that never came, and storage kept forever. Because the cost is spread across many small items, nobody owns it.
We find the savings, fix them, and put governance in place so they stay fixed — budgets, alerts, tagging and a regular review rhythm. Optimisation is also about performance and security, not only cost.
Where savings usually come from
Unused resources
Orphaned disks, idle services, old snapshots and forgotten environments.
Right-sizing
Services matched to their actual utilisation.
Scheduling
Non-production resources switched off outside working hours.
Commitments
Reservations or savings plans for steady, predictable workloads.
Storage tiers
Data moved to the right tier for how often it is used.
Licensing
Existing licence entitlements applied correctly to cloud resources.
How the review works
01
Analyse
Billing, utilisation and resource inventory.
02
Recommend
Savings opportunities with effort and risk for each.
03
Implement
Apply agreed changes safely, testing as we go.
04
Govern
Budgets, alerts, tagging and a monthly review rhythm.
Connected capabilities
Where this connects to the rest of the work
Technology does not operate in silos. These are the capabilities that most often sit alongside this one in a real engagement.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How much can we save on cloud costs?
It depends entirely on your starting point. Environments that have never been reviewed usually have meaningful waste; well-governed ones less so. The analysis quantifies the opportunity before you commit to changes.
Will optimisation affect performance?
It should not degrade it — changes are based on measured utilisation and tested. Some optimisation improves performance.
Do you optimise Microsoft 365 licensing as well?
Yes. Licence reviews across Microsoft 365 and cloud services are part of the same discipline.
Is this a one-off exercise?
The first review is; keeping costs controlled needs ongoing governance, which we can provide as a managed service.
Ready when you are
Make your cloud bill match your cloud use
A cost review shows where money is being wasted and what to do about it.