Azure Cost Optimization: 5 day Assessment

The assessment framework follows Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Adoption Framework to achieve a 30-40% reduction in costs for an unoptimized cloud environment.

3 Days

Agenda

• Definition of scope
• Data collection & review of current practices including.
  • Cloud configuration data
  • Networking patterns and bandwidth usage
  • Application and system data for both performance and usage
  • Azure consumption and usage patterns
  • VM analysis

Deliverables

• Current State Report
• Networking patterns and bandwidth usage
• Application and system data for both performance and usage
• Azure consumption and usage patterns

2 Days

Agenda

• Analysis of data collected in 3 Days
• High level review of application architecture
• Review of Governance Model
• Disaster Recovery plan review
• Presentation of the Cost Optimization plan
  • Discussion on timelines required for execution
  • Risks
  • Expected reduction in costs

Deliverables

• Optimization Road Map
• Infrastructure Optimization
  • Tenant, Subscription, Resource group & Tag
  • VM Sizing
  • Reserved Instances
  • VM Automation
  • Datacentre location
  • Azure Hybrid Benefits
  • Storage & disk types
  • Network
• Licensing Optimization