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By subscription, service, environment and team, with trends.
Azure FinOps audit, complete and quantified
A complete analysis of your Azure consumption, to know where the budget goes, what can be saved and how to stay in control afterwards.
- Read-only access
- Quantified recommendations
- Quote on request
What the audit covers, point by point
Waste
Unused or forgotten resources: disks, public IPs, snapshots, environments running around the clock.
Rightsizing
Machines, databases and App Service plans oversized for their actual use.
Commitments
Reserved Instances and Savings Plans opportunities, and under-used existing commitments.
Tagging and allocation
Quality of current tagging and a model to attribute every euro.
Governance
Budgets, alerts, Azure Policy and ownership so the drift does not come back.
Who it is for, and when
- Companies whose Azure bill keeps rising without explanation
- Teams that must allocate costs by application, team or client
- Management preparing a cloud budget
- Agencies and IT firms managing subscriptions for their clients
What you receive, at the end of the audit
- Audit report with the current state and every finding
- Prioritised action plan, with the estimated saving for each recommendation
- Quick wins you can apply straight away
- Tagging and budget proposal
- A debrief session with your teams
How it works, step by step
Scoping
Scope, subscriptions involved, goals and contacts.
Collection
Consumption and configuration data, read-only.
Analysis
Findings, estimates and prioritised recommendations.
Debrief
Presentation of the report and the action plan to your teams.
After the audit, implementation can be done by your teams or by XELMES.
Prerequisites
Read-only access (Reader and Cost Management Reader roles) to the subscriptions involved, and a technical contact on your side.
Pricing
Quote on request, based on the number of subscriptions and the size of the environment, after a first no-commitment call.
Frequently asked questions, straight answers
Do you need write access?
No. The analysis runs with read-only rights. Any changes are applied afterwards, with your approval.
How much will we save?
We do not promise a figure before seeing your data. The audit puts a number on each recommendation from your actual consumption.
Do the recommendations hurt performance?
Each recommendation is assessed for its impact on performance and availability, and nothing is applied without your approval.
Should this be repeated regularly?
FinOps is continuous. The budgets, alerts and dashboards we set up let your teams carry it on.
A project, an overloaded team, an audit? Let's talk.
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