Nous' Azure Cost Management Solution

Nous' Azure cost management solution is designed to help organizations achieve 30-40% cost optimization in Azure or even more for unoptimized environments. This 5-day assessment will provide an Azure Cloud Cost Optimization checklist to help roadmap cost optimization.

3 Days Plan

Agenda

• Introductions to key stakeholders and Nous’ Azure expertise.
• Definition of scope
• Data collection & review of current practices, including:
  • Cloud configuration data
  • Networking patterns and bandwidth usage
  • Application and system data for both performance and usage
  • Azure consumption and usage patterns
  • VM analysis

Deliverables

• Current State Report
• Networking patterns and bandwidth usage
• Application and system data for both performance and usage
• Azure consumption and usage patterns

2 Days Plan

Agenda

• Analysis of data collected in 3 days
• High-level review of application architecture
• Review of the governance model
• Disaster recovery plan review
• Presentation of the Azure cost optimization checklist
• Discussion on timelines required for the execution
• Risks
• Expected reduction in costs

Deliverables

• Optimization checklist
• Infrastructure optimization
• Tenant, subscription, resource group, & tag
• VM sizing
• Reserved instances
• VM automation
• Datacenter location
• Azure Hybrid benefits
• Storage & disk types
• Network
• Licensing optimization