Find out what your Azure bill should be.
Give us read-only access to your Azure Cost Management for one day. You get a written findings memo with the specific line items, what is driving each one, and a dollar figure against your current bill. You keep the memo whether or not you hire us to act on it.
A findings memo with dollar figures, not a dashboard
Written in plain language for a CFO, with the technical detail in an appendix for the team that runs the platform.
- Each cost driver, named. The specific resources and line items, not a category.
- The annualized dollar impact of each one, measured against your current bill.
- The effort to fix it: a configuration change, a purchasing decision, or an architectural change that needs a sprint.
- A prioritized order, so the first fixes pay for the later ones.
- A technical appendix with the evidence behind every finding, ready for your engineers.
Where recurring Azure spend actually comes from
- Rightsizing and idle resources
- Reserved instances and savings plans against actual usage patterns
- Storage tiering and lifecycle policies
- Orphaned resources, such as unattached disks, stale snapshots and forgotten public IPs
- Over-provisioned App Service plans and SQL tiers
- Networking egress and the features that generate it
- Non-production environments running at production scale
- Licensing and Azure Hybrid Benefit
- The architectural decisions that create recurring spend, not just one-off waste
The last item is usually the largest. A misconfigured slider costs you once; a design decision costs you every month until someone changes it.
What it costs and how long it takes
No figure is published for remediation work because it depends entirely on what the memo finds. A purchasing change and a re-architected data tier are very different pieces of work.
Three honest options once you have the memo
Your own team implements the findings
Many clients do exactly this, and that is fine. The memo is written so an internal team can act on it without us.
We implement them on a fixed scope
A defined statement of work covering the findings you choose, senior-led from the first change to the last, with the savings measured against the same baseline.
Nothing
Sometimes the bill is already close to what it should be. The memo says so, and you have that in writing too.
Why the findings are not just Azure Advisor
Azure Advisor is free and it finds the obvious rightsizing. It is worth turning on, and if your team has not acted on its recommendations, that shows up in the memo.
What Advisor does not do is read the architecture. The recurring spend that actually matters usually comes from design decisions: a data tier sized for a launch-day guess, environments cloned from production, chatty services paying for egress on every request, reserved capacity bought against the wrong usage shape. Finding those means understanding why a resource exists, not only how busy it is.
→read: where mid-market Azure bills actually leak moneyCompanies spending roughly $10k a month or more on Azure
The review is built for mid-market companies, roughly 200 to 2,000 employees, running .NET workloads on Azure with an internal team that is busy shipping features. Below about $10k a month, the savings rarely justify the time on either side, and Azure Advisor plus the Cost Management budgets will get you most of the way.
Based in McLean, Virginia, working with companies in the Washington DC metro and remotely.
The cost model is not theoretical
Questions about the Azure Cost Review
What access do you need?
Read-only Cost Management Reader access on the subscriptions or billing scope in question, for one day. No access to your data, no changes to your environment, and an NDA on request.
How much does the Azure Cost Review cost?
The review is free. If you want help implementing the findings afterwards, that work is scoped and quoted from the memo.
How long does it take?
One day of access, and the written findings memo within five business days.
Who is it for?
Companies spending roughly $10k a month or more on Azure, typically mid-market organizations running .NET workloads with an internal team that cannot take on a cost project alongside feature work.
How is this different from Azure Advisor?
Advisor finds the obvious rightsizing. The review reads the architecture, because the recurring spend that matters usually comes from design decisions rather than a setting left too high.
Do we have to hire you afterwards?
No. You keep the memo whether or not you hire us. Many clients have their own team implement the findings, and that is a perfectly good outcome.
Request an Azure Cost Review
One day of read-only access, a findings memo with dollar figures within five business days, and no obligation to do anything with it.
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Imhauser Technologies
McLean, VA
United States
Available on-site across the DC metro, Tysons, Reston, Arlington, and Washington, DC, as well as hybrid and remote worldwide.