Azure Cost Optimization: 5-day Assessment

Nous Infosystems Inc.

Azure Cost Optimization offered by Nous is a 5-day Assessment solution designed to provide control over cloud costs. It implements Nous' Azure cost optimization best practices which are built on Azure

Nous' Azure Cost Management Solution

Nous' Azure cost management solution is designed to help organizations achieve 30-40% cost optimization in Azure or even more for unoptimized environments. This 5-day assessment will provide an Azure Cloud Cost Optimization checklist to help roadmap cost optimization.

3 Days Plan

Agenda

  • Introductions to key stakeholders and Nous’ Azure expertise.
  • 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 Plan

Agenda

  • Analysis of data collected in 3 days
  • High-level review of application architecture
  • Review of the governance model
  • Disaster recovery plan review
  • Presentation of the Azure cost optimization checklist
  • Discussion on timelines required for the execution
  • Risks
  • Expected reduction in costs

Deliverables

  • Optimization checklist
  • Infrastructure optimization
  • Tenant, subscription, resource group, & tag
  • VM sizing
  • Reserved instances
  • VM automation
  • Datacenter location
  • Azure Hybrid benefits
  • Storage & disk types
  • Network
  • Licensing optimization
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