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Azure & AWS Optimisation

Understand Your Cloud Spend. Make Every Resource Count.

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Keep Your Cloud Environment Aligned With Your Business

Cloud services make it straightforward to add capacity. Keeping that capacity aligned with actual demand takes ongoing attention. Resources created for a project can remain active after it ends, while workloads, storage and purchasing commitments continue to change.

For busy IT teams, investigating these costs competes with everyday operational priorities.

Connect Consumption, Expenditure and Business Need

Vision helps you review the relationship between consumption, expenditure and business need across Azure, AWS or both.

The result is a prioritised improvement plan that considers cost, performance and resilience together, with dependencies, testing and change approval built into every recommendation.

Key Benefits

Clearer Costs. Better-Informed Cloud Decisions.

Understand What Drives Expenditure

Identify the services, workloads and teams behind your cloud bill by improving visibility across accounts, subscriptions and resource ownership.

Reduce Avoidable Waste

Find resources that may be unused, oversized or running unnecessarily, confirming dependencies before scheduling, resizing or removing them.

Match Capacity to Demand

Assess resource sizing against real usage, application requirements, peak demand and the operational headroom your services genuinely need.

Make Informed Commitments

Evaluate reservations, Reserved Instances and Savings Plans against stable demand and future plans rather than locking in unnecessary capacity.

Improve Ongoing Oversight

Establish clearer ownership, tagging, reporting and review priorities so cloud decisions stay aligned as workloads and business needs evolve.

Review Storage Costs

Review storage growth, access patterns, retention and data movement, including the retrieval costs and performance implications of alternatives.

Your Questions Answered

Azure & AWS Optimisation FAQs

Do We Need to Use Both Azure and AWS?

No. A review can focus on either platform or cover both, depending on your environment.

Will Optimisation Guarantee a Lower Cloud Bill?

No. Opportunities depend on your starting point. Some recommendations reduce costs, while others address performance or resilience. Savings estimates should reflect existing discounts and implementation costs.

Could Changes Affect Application Performance?

They can. Resizing, scheduling or changing storage services requires assessment of workload behaviour and dependencies. Changes should follow an agreed testing and approval process.

Can We Optimise Resources Covered by Existing Commitments?

Yes, but reservations and Savings Plans need to be considered. Reducing resource usage may not immediately reduce the bill if committed expenditure remains payable.

Why Not Just Follow the Cloud Platform’s Recommendations?

Recommendations are a useful starting point. They still need validation against business context, peak demand, future plans and requirements that usage data may not reveal.

Is Optimisation a One-Off Exercise?

An initial review can establish priorities, but environments continue to change. Regular reviews help keep resource choices and purchasing decisions aligned with current needs.

Get a Clearer Picture of Your Cloud Investment

Identify where a focused review could improve efficiency, visibility and control.

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