Cloud Cost Optimisation Assessment
Understand your cloud costs. Take back control. Reduce unnecessary spend, right-size your cloud resources, and strengthen cost governance. Get the most value from every cloud investment.
Ultima’s Cloud Cost Optimisation Assessment identifies opportunities for you to reduce your Azure spend without compromising on performance or security.
Using expert analysis and specialist software, our consultants identify wastage, highlight optimisations, and find ways to save costs through different payment plans and hosting locations.
You’ll receive a clear, prioritised action plan with projected savings and timelines – helping you achieve measurable reductions of 18-30% on average, often within 2-4 months.
Book your assessment today to take back control of your Cloud costs.
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Benefits you can measure
Reduce your costs & increase profit
Only pay for what you need by following our recommendations to save money with quick wins.
Gain control of your Cloud costs
You can’t control what you can’t see. We’ll help you understand your environment, usage, and expenditure.
Improve cost governance & accountability
Get recommendations for cost controls and best practices to ensure the right people are accountable for costs.
FinOps Applied: Turning cloud spend into business value
Watch seriesFinOps and Cloud Cost Optimisation work hand in hand to create sustainable cloud efficiency. While Cost Optimisation delivers immediate savings by identifying and eliminating waste, FinOps embeds financial accountability, visibility, and continuous improvement into everyday operations. Together, they turn short-term savings into long-term, scalable value.
See how they can both work for your business in our series, FinOps Applied.
Why choose Ultima?
Ultima has a strong Cloud pedigree – providing dedicated specialists, resilient process, and exceptional services that empower our customers take control of the cloud, rather than the cloud controlling them.
This expertise is validated by our accreditation as an Azure Expert MSP. It’s the industry seal of assurance, publicly asserting our competence as a trusted partner who will support organisations to the highest standard, whether they’re already in Azure or preparing to migrate.
Real-world use cases for smarter cloud spend
Challenge: Rapid growth can lead to overprovisioned infrastructure and rising costs.
Solution: Continuously assess your cloud environment to align resource allocation with real-time demand.
Impact: Maximises cost efficiency by scaling down oversized virtual machines without compromising performance.
Challenge: Manual provisioning slows down operations and increases the risk of errors.
Solution: Leverage Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Cloud Resource Manager to automate provisioning, scaling, and lifecycle management.
Impact: Save time, reduce costs and human error.
Challenge: Standard compute pricing can limit flexibility for large-scale workloads.
Solution: Tap into unused cloud capacity with spot instances for non-critical, interruptible tasks.
Impact: Cut costs dramatically on big data and batch processing jobs without sacrificing speed.
Challenge: Data transfer fees can quietly inflate your cloud bill.
Solution: Streamline data flows and storage strategies to minimise unnecessary transfers.
Impact: Reduce costs by optimising access patterns and choosing more efficient storage options.
Challenge: Without visibility, cloud spend becomes hard to track and harder to control.
Solution: Apply consistent tagging across resources to map usage to departments, projects, and environments.
Impact: Gain full transparency and accountability for every pound spent in the cloud.
Challenge: Underused resources during off-peak hours waste budget.
Solution: Use heat maps to visualise usage trends and identify low-demand periods.
Impact: Scale down intelligently during quiet times to drive efficiency without disruption.
Challenge: Rapid growth can lead to overprovisioned infrastructure and rising costs.
Solution: Continuously assess your cloud environment to align resource allocation with real-time demand.
Impact: Maximises cost efficiency by scaling down oversized virtual machines without compromising performance.
Challenge: Manual provisioning slows down operations and increases the risk of errors.
Solution: Leverage Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Cloud Resource Manager to automate provisioning, scaling, and lifecycle management.
Impact: Save time, reduce costs and human error.
Challenge: Standard compute pricing can limit flexibility for large-scale workloads.
Solution: Tap into unused cloud capacity with spot instances for non-critical, interruptible tasks.
Impact: Cut costs dramatically on big data and batch processing jobs without sacrificing speed.
Challenge: Data transfer fees can quietly inflate your cloud bill.
Solution: Streamline data flows and storage strategies to minimise unnecessary transfers.
Impact: Reduce costs by optimising access patterns and choosing more efficient storage options.
Challenge: Without visibility, cloud spend becomes hard to track and harder to control.
Solution: Apply consistent tagging across resources to map usage to departments, projects, and environments.
Impact: Gain full transparency and accountability for every pound spent in the cloud.
Challenge: Underused resources during off-peak hours waste budget.
Solution: Use heat maps to visualise usage trends and identify low-demand periods.
Impact: Scale down intelligently during quiet times to drive efficiency without disruption.
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Gain actionable insights for Azure success
Our assessment process provides actionable insights and strategic recommendations.
Through a half-day workshop with your key stakeholders, we analyse your Azure usage, uncover inefficiencies, and identify cost-saving opportunities. This collaborative approach ensures you understand your cloud landscape, reduce costs, optimise resources and implement effective cost governance.
Assessment of your current Azure estate (current vs budget)
Analysis of in-use resources, including those which are over/under-utilised
A strategic report containing opportunities to decrease costs by removing and right-sizing resources
Long-term recommendations to optimise Azure spending and improve governance going forward
The building blocks to guide a strategic, cost-optimised Azure roadmap
Related insights to support your FinOps journey
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