Find out how much of your Azure spend you could save
Use this free Azure cost optimisation calculator to see where you could reduce Azure costs. Answer a few questions about your estate and how you manage cost today, and you'll get an indicative report with savings ranges, a FinOps maturity score and recommended next steps.
- About 3 minutes
- No access to your tenant needed
- Instant PDF report
Your Azure spend
Rough figures are fine. You'll find most of these in Azure Cost Management, or ask whoever pays the Azure bill.
How you manage cost today
Pick the answer closest to how things really work, not how they should. This produces your FinOps maturity score.
Where should we send your report?
Your summary appears on the next screen, where you can download the full PDF report. We'll also keep a copy so a Shaping Cloud specialist can talk it through with you if you'd like.
Your Azure cost optimisation snapshot
Here is your summary. Download the PDF for the full report and recommended next steps.
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These ranges are indicative only. They are based on your answers and published Azure list prices, not on your actual usage, agreements or discounts.
Turn this estimate into real savings
Book a 30-minute call with one of our Azure specialists. We'll check these numbers against your real usage data and show you where to start.
This snapshot is provided for guidance only and is not a quotation. Savings depend on your workloads, licensing and commercial agreements and should be validated through a detailed assessment.
What our Azure cost optimisation calculator checks
The calculator looks at the areas where Azure spend is most often wasted, and where you can reduce Azure costs fastest:
- Reservations and savings plans: how much steady compute is still paying full pay-as-you-go prices, with reservation savings estimated from live Azure UK prices
- Rightsizing: virtual machines that are larger than their workload needs
- Scheduling: development and test machines that run overnight and at weekends
- Azure Hybrid Benefit: Windows Server and SQL Server licences you may already own
- Storage: data sitting in expensive tiers, plus old snapshots and unattached disks
- Idle resources: things that are still billed but no longer used
It also scores how you manage cloud cost today, across tagging, budgets, alerts, ownership, reporting and commitment management, to give you a FinOps maturity rating.
Who it's for
CTOs, CIOs, IT directors, heads of infrastructure, finance leaders and anyone responsible for an Azure bill. You don't need to give us access to your tenant. Rough figures from Azure Cost Management are enough, and it takes about three minutes.
Azure cost optimisation FAQs
How much can you reduce Azure costs by?
It depends on how your estate is set up today. Organisations with no reservations, no out-of-hours scheduling and little rightsizing usually have the most to gain. The snapshot gives you an indicative range based on your answers and current Azure list prices, and a detailed review of your actual usage firms that up.
What is FinOps?
FinOps is the practice of managing cloud spend as an ongoing discipline rather than a once-a-year exercise. It brings IT, finance and the business together so everyone can see what cloud costs, who owns it and where it can be reduced.
Is this Azure savings assessment a quote?
No. It's an indicative estimate based on published list prices. It doesn't include any Enterprise Agreement, CSP or MACC discounts you already receive.
Do you need access to our Azure environment?
Not for the snapshot. If you'd like us to validate the numbers, we can review your real usage data with you.
See what you could really save
Book a 30-minute call with one of our Azure specialists. We'll check your snapshot against your real usage data, show you where the biggest savings are and talk through sensible next steps.