While cloud services offer technological advantages, under-utilized resources generate unnecessary costs. For businesses with significant cloud investments, auditing scalable resources and tracking consumption can be a challenge.

MAQ Software’s Azure Cost Optimization service will help you assess your existing resources, monitor resource consumption, and identify opportunities to optimize cloud costs.

Agenda:

Week 1:

Resources Identification

• Catalogue and group all Azure resources using tags
• Identify resource type and their capacity

Resource Review

• Review the usage and cost of the Azure resources

Week 2:

• Perform detailed analysis of existing Azure bill/invoice

  Clean-Up

• Identify unused and idle resources

  Define Policies

• Audit and restrict access creation of resources and resources group

Week 3:

• Develop a Standard Governance Model
• Enforce new resource access policies
• Notify owners and users of any changes

Deliverables:

• Detailed documentation containing an inventory list, owner list, and cost optimization plan
• Gap analysis of existing Azure subscriptions, resources, usage, and security
• Analysis-based recommendation about SKU alterations for VMs and other Azure resources
• Scheduler recommendation for VM shutdown based on usage patterns
• Guidelines to set up automated notifications to effectively monitor resources
• Standardized Governance Model

Business Impact

• Identify potential savings areas