FinOps
More value from every euro spent on Azure.
With over 90% of its infrastructure on Microsoft Azure, a multinational needed to control its cloud spend without touching performance. We did it in a team of twelve specialists, alongside professionals from other companies.
The challenge
The cloud had grown with the company, and so had the bill. There was overcapacity in servers, disks and databases, idle resources that only cost money, and service tiers sized wrongly.
All of it in critical environments, with teams spread across time zones and a strict change management policy.
What we did
- A technical diagnosis of the whole Azure infrastructure.
- Improvement proposals, quantified and aligned with the business.
- Resizing, decommissioning idle resources, tier changes and a stronger reservation policy, with automation.
- Sprints with a metrics dashboard shared with IT operations and planning, which also found savings in licensing.
The outcome
- USD 8 million in projected savings for 2024, through avoided costs.
- Over 1,300 actions: 802 resources removed, 504 capacity adjustments, 24 new reservations and 10 hybrid licensing optimisations.
- Cloud spend growing under 2% a year, against what was expected.
- A culture of responsible consumption across the IT teams.