Azure & AWS Cost Optimization

Most cloud estates weren't designed to be expensive. They got that way one sensible decision at a time: a larger VM size to get through a busy week, a test environment that never got switched off, logs kept forever because nobody decided otherwise.

• Nobody owns the bill end to end, so savings fall between teams.
• Cost reports show where the money goes, but not what to change.
• Engineers are wary of touching production to save money, and they're right to be careful.

We treat cost as an engineering problem, not a finance report.

1. Assess

We review your Azure subscriptions or AWS accounts, resources, usage patterns and architecture, and talk to the people who run them. The result is a ranked list of savings, each with its effort and risk.

2. Fix

We make the changes with your team: right-sizing, scheduling, storage tiers, reservations and savings plans, and the architecture changes that remove cost for good. Every change is reviewed, tested and reversible.

3. Keep it down

We set up budgets, alerts, tagging and dashboards so new waste is visible early, and hand over a simple routine your team can keep running.

• Right-sizing of virtual machines and EC2 instances, App Service plans, databases and Kubernetes node pools, based on real usage.
• Scheduling non-production environments to switch off outside working hours.
• Commitment planning: Azure Reservations and savings plans, or AWS Savings Plans and Reserved Instances, for the workloads that are steady.
• Storage and data: access tiers, lifecycle rules, snapshot and backup retention, log and monitoring data volumes.
• Architecture changes such as moving suitable workloads to serverless or containers, and removing duplicated services.
• Cost visibility: tagging standards, budgets, alerts and dashboards per team, product or customer.

• A cost baseline: where the money goes, by team, product and environment.
• A ranked savings plan, each item with its estimated saving, effort and risk.
• The changes themselves, made through your pipelines and reviews, each with a rollback.
• Reservation and savings plan recommendations sized from your real usage.
• Tagging standards, budgets, alerts and cost dashboards.
• A monthly cost review your team can run without us.

Most engagements start with a fixed-scope assessment, so you see the opportunities and the effort before committing further. From there we either implement the plan with your team as a project, or stay on to keep costs in check over time. We agree the scope, team and pricing model with you before work starts.

You work directly with senior cloud engineers who have built and run production systems on Azure and AWS, not with a reporting tool or a sales layer. One engineer is your main point of contact throughout.

Our team works from Ho Chi Minh City (UTC+7). That's within an hour of Singapore and Malaysia, and gives four to five hours of shared working time with the Australian east coast every day. For clients in the US we agree an overlap window at the start and handle the rest asynchronously, with written updates.