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Azure architecture and cost review
A productised Azure cost review built on open-source tooling I publish: a read-only agent that sweeps a tenant in about twenty minutes, followed by a practitioner's review that turns the findings into a savings plan your team can execute.
The result that sells it
On a UK tenant spending around £30,000 a month, the review identified £5,400 to £7,400 a month of savings - roughly three times the ceiling of Azure Advisor's own recommendations for the same tenant. Every figure comes with stated assumptions, so your team can check the arithmetic before touching anything.
How it works
- Read-only by design: the agent needs reader access only - it cannot change, delete or resize anything
- Tenant-wide in minutes: a full sweep across dozens of subscriptions in about twenty minutes, then the human work starts
- Open-source tooling: the azure-costs-analyzer is published - inspect exactly what will run before you grant access
- Repeatable: built for quarterly re-runs and portfolio-wide use, not a one-off consultant deck
What you receive
- A written report: idle and orphaned resources, oversized compute, reservation and savings-plan gaps, storage and networking waste
- Quantified monthly savings per finding, with confidence levels and the assumptions stated
- A prioritised action plan sequenced by effort against saving - or I implement it with your team at the same day rate
Beyond cost: Azure architecture
The same practice covers Azure-native platform design and modernisation: event-driven architecture on Service Bus, Azure Functions, AKS, API Management and CosmosDB, with Terraform infrastructure as code. That is the stack I ran as principal architect behind a $330M AUM platform and as VP of Technology at a trading venue.
Pricing
One week, fixed scope: sweep, analysis, report and read-out. No percentage-of-savings games.
Execute the savings plan together, or take on the wider platform work.
No agents installed, no write permissions, nothing left running in your tenant.
Send your rough monthly Azure spend and subscription count, and I will confirm scope and start date by reply.