Beyond SharePoint
Azure cost optimisation for Sydney mid-market organisations
TechRam's Azure cost optimisation, run from Sydney, reviews your spend monthly rather than at renewal — a named owner per resource group, costed right-sizing and reservation recommendations, tagging so spend maps to a department, and a quarterly pack for the board. For Achieve Australia it took 40% off the monthly bill.
- Monthly, no lock-in
What we do
- Monthly cost review with a named owner per resource group
- Right-sizing and reservation recommendations, costed
- Tagging and showback so spend maps to a department
- Quarterly business review pack for the board
The problem it answers
Azure bills grow by accident. A test environment nobody turned off, a storage tier nobody reviewed, a reserved instance nobody renewed. By the time finance asks, the trail is three months cold.
We aren’t a helpdesk and this isn’t infrastructure babysitting. It’s a monthly read of where the money went and a decision list against it.
Proof: Achieve Australia
A TechRam cost review of Achieve Australia’s Azure estate found environments nobody had turned off, storage tiers nobody had reviewed, and reserved capacity bought for a retired workload. Right-sizing and shutdown schedules cut the monthly bill by 40%, recovering more than $40,000 a year.
40%
off the Azure bill
$40,000+
in recovered annual Azure overspend
What this does for your AI
AI workloads are the fastest-growing line on an Azure bill. This is where you see it before it compounds.
Common questions
01. How is Azure cost management different from what our MSP already does?
Your MSP may resell the subscription we're reviewing. We don't sell Azure and earn nothing on your consumption, which is the only reason a cost review is worth reading.
02. Is this infrastructure management?
No, and we're careful about the distinction. It's a monthly read of where the money went and a decision list against it. Somebody still has to run the estate.
03. Can we review one department's Azure spend rather than the whole organisation's?
Usually yes, and it's often the better way in. One department that works is a more persuasive business case internally than a plan covering all of them, and it gives us a real cost to scope the rest against.
04. What does Azure cost management cost?
Fixed scope, quoted in writing before work starts, and the number doesn't move because the work turned out harder than we expected. We don't publish a range, because the scope is what sets it and a range without a scope is a guess you would have to unlearn.
05. Do we need to buy anything new for Azure cost management?
Almost never. We start with what is already in your Microsoft 365 licensing, and we don't resell licences or earn a margin on them. Where something genuinely isn't covered we'll say so before you commit, not after.
06. What happens when the Azure review is finished?
You own it: the systems, the documentation, and the ability to maintain them without us. Run & Improve exists if you would rather we kept it current, and it's monthly with no lock-in.