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Azure
Landing zones, governance, and cost management for Azure environments that stay understandable as they grow.
Azure bills grow through accumulation rather than through any single decision — a test environment that outlived its project, a VM sized for a load that never arrived, disks left behind by deleted machines.
We design the governance before the sprawl, and where sprawl already exists, we produce a prioritized plan to unwind it without breaking anything that matters.
Outcomes
- A landing zone with governance defined up front
- Cost allocated to named owners rather than sitting unattributed
- Commitments made against real baselines, not forecasts
- Monitoring and backup that have actually been tested
Capabilities
How we approach it
Landing zone design
Subscription topology, network architecture, naming standards, tagging policy, and role assignments established before the first production workload lands.
Governance and policy
Azure Policy for tag enforcement, permitted regions, and SKU restrictions. Governance applied at creation costs nothing; governance applied retrospectively is a project.
Cost management
Rightsizing first, then reservations and savings plans against the durable portion of consumption. Committing to an over-provisioned estate locks in the waste for the whole term.
Operations
Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, alert routing, and backup policy configured so failures reach a person and recovery has been rehearsed rather than assumed.
Deliverables
What you receive
Written, handed over, and yours permanently — whether or not the engagement continues.
- 01Landing zone architecture with subscription and network design
- 02Tagging, naming, and policy standards
- 03Cost baseline with a prioritized optimization plan
- 04Monitoring, alerting, and backup configuration with a tested recovery runbook
FAQ
Common questions
How quickly can Azure spend be reduced?
Rightsizing over-provisioned VMs, deleting orphaned disks and idle resources, and correcting storage tiers usually show on the next invoice. Commitment-based discounts take longer because they need enough history to commit safely.
Do you work with environments you did not build?
Yes, and it is the common case. We start with an assessment documenting what exists, what it costs, and where the risk is.
Should we use reserved instances or savings plans?
Reservations discount more but tie you to a specific SKU and region. Savings plans discount less and let workloads move. Stable, long-lived workloads suit reservations; changing estates suit savings plans.
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Talk to us about Azure.
Tell us what you run today and what is prompting the change. We come back with a written recommendation and a scoped quotation.