Context received
The agreed workload boundary, approved inventory exports, and read-only administrative evidence.
Simplicity IT Professional Service | Three-week assessment
Microsoft Azure Cost Optimization and FinOps: 3-Week Assessment
Azure savings decisions can weaken reliability or stall in review when billing evidence, utilization, commitments, allocation, governance, and accountable owners are not evaluated together.
What this assessment gives you
- An executive Azure cost and opportunity scorecard.
- A savings opportunity register with evidence, confidence, effort, risk, owner, and approval status.
- A commitment, allocation, budget, anomaly, forecasting, and FinOps operating model.
- A prioritized 30, 60, and 90-day roadmap with human approval gates.
How the engagement runs
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Week 1: Establish the cost baseline
Confirm business goals, billing boundaries, access, ownership, anomalies, and initial waste candidates.
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Week 2: Validate options
Validate utilization, workload constraints, commitment scenarios, allocation gaps, and governance maturity with technical and finance owners.
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Week 3: Prioritize and hand off
Prioritize the savings register, define the operating cadence, and deliver the executive brief and 90-day roadmap.
Sample assessment artifacts
These illustrative examples show the deliverables you can expect. They use synthetic data and do not depict customer environments.
Evidence to decision flow
Evidence reviewed
Simplicity IT analyzes the in-scope evidence against the documented service questions. Production activity remains read-only.
Your decision
A named customer owner reviews findings, priorities, dependencies, and any proposed next step before production work is scoped.
Evidence retained
The agreed report, decision log, and handoff record are retained according to the customer agreement. Customer content is not reused for marketing.
Your approval before production changes
The assessment does not make production changes. A named customer owner reviews the findings, priorities, dependencies, and proposed next step before any follow-on work is scoped or performed.
Scope and boundaries
- The assessment does not resize, stop, delete, move, or reconfigure production resources.
- No reservation or savings-plan purchase, exchange, licensing change, policy activation, or chargeback activation is included.
- Savings values are estimates based on available evidence and documented assumptions, not guaranteed outcomes.
- Follow-on optimization work requires a separate approved scope.
Microsoft technologies in scope
- Microsoft Cost Management
- Azure Advisor
- Azure Monitor
- Azure Hybrid Benefit
Request a scoping call
Tell us about your environment and priorities. We will confirm the scope, schedule, and purchasing options with you before work begins.
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