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Cloud optimisation and support services
Improve cloud cost, performance and operational value. Konsolute assesses Azure consumption, workload performance and Microsoft 365 licensing, prioritises improvements without weakening reliability, and can keep the gains going with ongoing support.
WHAT THIS HELPS YOU ACHIEVE
Decisions grounded in usage and service needs
Build a repeatable improvement process around measured demand, cost ownership and the way your services need to perform.
Visibility of cost drivers
Understand material consumption and licence costs, with allocation that finance and engineering can discuss.
Capacity matched to demand
Identify rightsizing and scaling options using workload evidence and service requirements.
Better-informed commitments
Assess stable eligible demand before recommending reservations, savings plans or licence changes.
Measurable improvement
Track agreed changes against a baseline and maintain an owned backlog for the next review.
OUR CLOUD OPTIMISATION SERVICES
Evidence-based cloud improvements
Six areas of review across Azure and Microsoft 365, each ending in changes you can measure against an agreed baseline.
Cloud cost and allocation review
Analyse Azure Cost Management data, subscription structure and allocation, identifying cost drivers, shared services and gaps in tagging, budgets and ownership.
Workload rightsizing
Assess utilisation, memory and I/O alongside application demand, reviewing VM sizes, database tiers, App Service capacity, schedules and idle resources.
Commitment and licence assessment
Evaluate reservations, savings plans and Azure Hybrid Benefit after rightsizing, modelling utilisation and commercial assumptions before any commitment.
Application performance
Use application and platform telemetry to investigate slow transactions, contention and database bottlenecks, then prioritise query, scaling or code changes.
Reliability and operational efficiency
Review monitoring noise, backup and recovery alongside cost, removing unnecessary effort while keeping the service targets and recovery the business needs.
Microsoft 365 licence utilisation
Review Microsoft 365 licence assignments and usage against role needs, identifying reassignment or plan changes while respecting retention and security.
CAPABILITIES & DELIVERY SCOPE
What the technical work covers
Workstreams are selected and scoped around your environment. Each combines technical decisions, implementation tasks and evidence for handover.
Cloud cost and allocation review
Break down spend into workload and shared-service drivers. Review allocation rules, tag coverage and budgets, then identify who can take action on each material cost.
FinOps review cycle
Build a joint finance and engineering review with an agreed reporting period. Track cost movements, demand, ownership and action progress rather than report the bill alone.
Workload rightsizing
Compare observed demand with provisioned capacity across compute and data services. Identify schedules, scaling changes and idle-resource candidates that can be tested safely.
Commitment and licence assessment
Model commitments against a rightsized baseline and planned workload changes. Review current coverage and utilisation before recommending further reservations or savings plans.
Application performance
Follow slow or failing transactions through the available traces, metrics and database evidence. Propose targeted improvements and define the measurements needed to verify them.
Reliability and operational efficiency
Review the cost and usefulness of alerts, log retention, backups and recovery configuration. Compare options against service requirements before removing capacity or protection.
Microsoft 365 licence utilisation
Map licence assignments and relevant usage to user roles and required capabilities. Identify reassignment or plan-review candidates alongside retention and security dependencies.
Controlled implementation
Convert opportunities into approved changes with service checks. Compare observed results with the baseline and record demand or pricing changes that affect the interpretation.
TECHNICAL DESIGN DECISIONS
Technical decisions that shape delivery
These choices affect implementation, ongoing operation and the evidence needed to accept the work.
Baseline before savings claims
Use an agreed measurement period and normalise for changing demand. Separate one-off reductions from sustained improvements and avoid promising savings before assessment.
Rightsize before committing spend
Establish realistic steady-state demand before evaluating reservations or savings plans. A discount on unused capacity can still represent poor value.
Protect service requirements
Capacity, logging and redundancy changes affect performance, diagnosis and recovery. Validate the effect against service targets before accepting a lower bill.
Licence usage needs business context
Low activity alone does not determine whether a licence can be removed. Check user roles, feature dependencies, retention requirements and commercial terms.
OUR APPROACH
How we deliver cloud optimisation
Six stages take you from an agreed baseline to measured improvements, with a FinOps review cycle that keeps costs under control afterwards.
Establish the baseline
Agree the estate, reporting period, cost ownership and service requirements for the assessment.
Find cost and service drivers
Review consumption, workload telemetry, licence assignments and the dependencies behind material costs.
Prioritise changes
Rank opportunities by expected value, confidence, implementation effort and service risk.
Implement approved improvements
Apply agreed rightsizing, scheduling, configuration or licensing changes through controlled workstreams.
Measure the effect
Compare cost and service behaviour with the baseline, allowing for demand and pricing changes.
Embed regular review
Assign owners and a cadence for budgets, capacity, commitment utilisation and the improvement backlog.
Measure.Optimise.Sustain.
WHERE WE CAN HELP
Where cloud optimisation fits
Start with the requirement that matches your estate. Assessment establishes the technical dependencies and scope.
See it in practice: Konsolute optimised GSK's Azure costs and built a Bicep service catalogue so new infrastructure is right-sized from day one, and cut an aerospace manufacturer's Azure costs by moving legacy applications onto containers.
WHAT WE DELIVER
Optimisation deliverables your team can use
The proposal identifies which of these outputs are included, their level of detail and the acceptance criteria.
Cost and usage baseline
A documented view of cost drivers, allocation, demand and relevant licence assignments.
Prioritised opportunity register
Recommendations with evidence, assumptions, expected impact, implementation effort and dependencies.
Validated improvement changes
Agreed changes with service checks and observed outcomes against the measurement baseline.
FinOps operating cadence
Cost ownership, review schedules, budget actions and a maintained improvement backlog.
FAQ
Cloud optimisation FAQs
Savings, cost data, idle resources, rightsizing, reservations, Hybrid Benefit, performance, licences, resilience and ongoing review.
No fixed percentage should be promised before assessing usage, contracts and service requirements. We quantify opportunities with assumptions and distinguish estimated benefits from results observed after approved changes.
Useful inputs include Cost Management exports, resource inventory, utilisation and application telemetry, budget ownership and commercial context. We agree authorised access and the measurement period at the start.
No. Candidate resources need an ownership and dependency check before an approved change. An apparently idle resource may support recovery, testing or an infrequent business process.
We review utilisation patterns, memory, I/O, performance and application demand rather than CPU averages alone. Candidate changes have validation and recovery arrangements appropriate to the workload.
We assess eligible usage, demand stability, expected changes and the terms available to your agreement. Rightsizing and planned workload changes should inform the commitment model before purchase.
We can identify candidate workloads and information needed to assess eligibility. Entitlements, licence coverage and applicable commercial terms must be verified before enabling or relying on the benefit.
Yes. The agreed scope can include application traces, database bottlenecks, dependency latency and scaling behaviour. Recommendations may involve code or query changes as well as infrastructure capacity.
We review assignments, usage and role requirements to identify candidates for reassignment or plan changes. Decisions account for security features, retention needs, licensing terms and the effect on users.
We agree service and recovery requirements before recommending changes to capacity, redundancy, backups or monitoring. Cost reductions are evaluated alongside the effect on reliability and operational risk.
We can define a FinOps cadence with cost owners, budgets, commitment reviews and an improvement backlog. Recurring implementation or monitoring responsibilities are agreed separately from a one-off assessment.
TAKE THE NEXT STEP
Find the next improvement in your cloud estate
Tell Konsolute about your current environment and the priorities above. We can define the assessment, engineering work and handover needed for a focused engagement.