Every month you delay, your Azure bill is bleeding £2,000–£5,000 in waste you can't see. A focused, 14-day audit that exposes exactly where the money is going — and gives your team a clear plan to stop it.
£2,500 fixed audit. Read-only access only. 10x ROI guarantee.
No write accessNo delete permissionsNo data-plane accessNDA signed day 0
Pricing
£2,500 FIXED
One invoice. No day rates. 10x ROI or the fee is refunded.
Deliverable 01
Ranked savings register
Deliverable 02
Implementation runbook
Deliverable 03
60-minute readout
The Problem
Why Azure costs spiral out of control
These issues compound silently over time. Most engineering teams don't have the bandwidth to investigate — until the bill arrives.
Missed RI & Savings Plans
You're paying full price for workloads that run 24/7. Every month without Reserved Instances or Savings Plans, you're losing 30–70% of what that compute should cost.
Pay-as-you-goWith Savings Plan
Oversized & Idle VMs
VMs sized for peak load running at 5–15% utilisation. The other 85%? That's budget draining into unused capacity — every hour, every day.
Actual utilisation12%
Orphaned Resources
Detached disks, forgotten public IPs, stale snapshots — resources nobody is using but everyone is paying for. They just quietly accumulate on every invoice.
Wrong Database SKUs
Over-provisioned SQL tiers, single-instance setups where Elastic Pools would be cheaper, and DTU models where vCore scales better.
Silent Cost Creep
Storage on premium tiers that don't need it, logging pipelines ingesting too much, autoscaling configured without meaningful upper bounds.
Networking Waste
Underutilised VPN Gateways, idle NAT Gateways, ExpressRoute circuits provisioned for traffic that never materialised.
The Deliverables
What you get in 14 days
Five concrete deliverables designed for engineering teams. No hand-waving, no vague recommendations — just actionable output you can implement immediately.
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Deliverable 01
Full Azure Infrastructure Review
Complete read-only analysis across all subscriptions. Covers Compute, Storage, Networking, Databases, Containers, Identity, Monitoring and Governance. Every resource, every subscription — nothing missed.
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Deliverable 02
Waste & Misconfiguration Report
Detailed breakdown of idle resources, oversized workloads, wrong SKUs, orphaned assets and misaligned scaling policies — each with a named resource, estimated monthly waste, and fix priority.
Deliverable 03
Savings Plan & RI Recommendations
Exact guidance on what to reserve, expected savings, commitment length, and risk tradeoffs — so your finance team can act with confidence.
Deliverable 04
Prioritised Action Plan
Quick wins you can ship this week, medium-impact changes, and long-term structural improvements — ordered by ROI.
Deliverable 05
Executive Summary + Walkthrough
Non-technical summary for leadership covering total potential savings, ROI, key risks and recommended next steps — plus a 1-hour walkthrough call.
Real Engagement
One audit. One real client.
The numbers below are from a completed Plain Cloud engagement. The client's name is withheld — everything else is real.
Risk & Compliance SaaS Platform
A UK-based B2B software platform hosting roughly 40 customer environments on a single Azure subscription — one resource group per customer, no reserved capacity, no tagging, no cost governance. Eight months of billing data were analysed at the individual-resource level.
Virtual Machines and SQL Database made up 82% of spend. 13 findings were identified, 11 with a quantified saving — comfortably clearing the £25,000 guarantee.
£80,881
Annual run rate, before
£29.8k–£40k
Identified savings / year
37–50%
Bill reduction
Annual run rate, before & after
Today£80,881
Conservative case£51,046
Full delivery£40,835
Top ranked findings
01 · Compute Savings Plan£11.2k–£14.1k
02 · Right-size 2 oversized VMs£5.0k
03 · Delete/downsize dev-test DBs£5.0k–£7.1k
04 · SQL Reserved Capacity£2.6k–£3.6k
Figures from a real, completed engagement. Client identity, resource names and contract details withheld.
Pricing
Simple. Fixed. Risk-free.
Fixed Price Audit
£2,500one-time
Full infrastructure review across all subscriptions
Waste & misconfiguration report with named resources
RI & Savings Plan recommendations with exact figures
If your environment isn't leaking at least £25,000/year, you pay nothing. But in 10+ years, I haven't seen an Azure estate spending £10k+/month that wasn't.
£25kminimum identified savings or your money back
Implementation Support
Optional
Hands-on help actioning the findings. 1 day per month of engineering support to implement changes, validate savings, and course-correct.
£750/ month
Process
How it works
Four steps from first conversation to a clear implementation plan — all within 14 days.
Step 01
Book Discovery Call
Free 15-minute call to understand your Azure environment, scale, and goals.
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Step 02 · Access
Grant Read-Only Access
Assign the Azure Reader role — no write permissions, fully auditable, revocable at any time.
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Output
Receive Detailed Report
Full audit findings delivered within 14 days — with walkthrough call included.
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Step 04
Implement Savings
Act on findings with your team, or with optional ongoing implementation support.
No write accessNo delete permissionsNo data-plane accessNDA signed day 0
FAQ
Common questions
What access do you need?
The Azure Reader role — read-only access to your subscriptions. No write permissions of any kind. The role is standard Azure RBAC, fully auditable, and you can revoke it at any point.
How long does it take?
14 days from the point you grant access to report delivery — including the walkthrough call. Larger multi-subscription environments may occasionally require an extra 2–3 days.
What if you don't find £25,000 in savings?
You receive a full refund. No questions asked, no justification required. The guarantee exists because the audit is only offered to organisations where the spend profile makes £25k in savings genuinely achievable.
Can you help implement the changes?
Yes — optional implementation support is available at £750/month, covering 1 day per month. This includes hands-on changes, Terraform/ARM updates, validation, and ongoing guidance as your team works through the findings.
Do you work with multi-cloud?
Azure is the primary focus and where the depth is. For organisations with AWS or GCP alongside Azure, a basic cross-cloud review can be included — though the detailed methodology is Azure-native.
Who is this audit designed for?
Scale-ups and enterprises spending £10,000+/month on Azure — typically 50–200 person companies with engineering teams managing rapid growth. Also suited to CTOs seeking an independent external review, and finance teams wanting full cloud cost transparency.
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About
Naadir Akhtar
DevOps Engineer · Azure Cost Optimisation · 10+ Years
I've spent over a decade optimising Azure infrastructure for startups and enterprises — focused on cost management, Infrastructure as Code, cloud architecture, and DevOps automation. I help engineering teams reduce waste without slowing delivery.
This audit is the same process I've applied across dozens of environments. No junior analysts, no templated reports — just a senior engineer who knows where Azure hides the waste.
Azure Cost ManagementTerraform · ARM TemplatesCloud ArchitectureDevOps AutomationCI/CD
Every week without an audit is another £500–£1,200 in waste you won't recover. Book 15 minutes and find out how much your Azure bill is actually costing you.
