Azure Cost Optimization Services
Find the Azure spend you don't need, and keep it from coming back.
Request an Azure cost review
HabileLabs reviews Azure bills and usage to find waste, then fixes it: right-sizing virtual machines, moving data to the right storage tier, using reservations and savings plans where usage is steady, and setting budgets and alerts so spending stays visible. For Marsons Energy, moving backups to Azure Blob Storage's hot, cold and archive tiers cut cold-storage backup costs by 50%.
Where Azure Spend Usually Leaks
Azure bills grow quietly. Resources are created for a project and never removed, virtual machines are sized for a peak that never comes, and data sits on storage that costs more than it needs to. The usual causes:
- Virtual machines sized well above what their workloads use
- Disks, IP addresses and test environments that nobody owns any more
- Backups and archives kept on storage built for frequent access
- Pay-as-you-go prices for workloads that run all year
- No tags or budgets, so no team owns the bill
A cost review shows which of these apply to you and what each one costs.
What You Get from an Azure Cost Review
A Lower Monthly Bill
Waste removed from compute, storage and networking, starting with the largest items.
Right-Sized Resources
Virtual machines and databases matched to what each workload actually uses.
The Right Storage Tier
Data kept on hot, cool, cold or archive storage according to how often it is read.
Commitments That Fit
Reservations and savings plans bought only for usage steady enough to commit to.
A Bill Someone Owns
Tags, budgets and alerts so each team sees and answers for its own spend.
Savings That Last
Regular reviews that catch new waste before it builds up again.
Marsons Energy cut cold-storage backup costs by 50%
Marsons Energy, a transformer manufacturer of more than 30 years, was outgrowing its physical backup disks. Moving backups to Azure Blob Storage's hot, cold and archive tiers halved cold-storage backup costs and cut the manual work.
Who Azure Cost Optimization Is For
A cost review pays off most when one of these sounds familiar.
Teams Whose Azure Bill Keeps Rising
Spend has grown faster than usage, and nobody can say exactly why.
Businesses That Migrated Recently
Workloads moved as they were and are still sized for the old data center.
Backup- and Data-Heavy Workloads
Large volumes of backups, logs or archives on storage tiers built for frequent access.
Workloads That Run All Year
Servers and databases that never switch off but are still on pay-as-you-go prices.
Several Subscriptions, No Shared View
Departments or projects spend on separate subscriptions with no single view of the total.
Finance Teams Without a Forecast
Monthly bills arrive as a surprise instead of against a budget.
How We Work
Every review follows the same four steps, and you approve each change before it is made.
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Assess: we read your Azure billing and usage data and list where the money goes and what is not being used.
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Plan: we rank the savings by size and effort and agree the order of work with you.
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Implement: we right-size, remove what is unused, move data between storage tiers, and buy reservations or savings plans where the numbers support it.
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Govern: we set up tags, budgets and alerts in Azure Cost Management so new waste shows up quickly.
Azure Cost Optimization Services
Take the parts you need, or run all six as one engagement.
Azure Cost Assessment
A line-by-line review of your bill and usage, with savings ranked by size.
Right-Sizing
Virtual machines, disks and databases resized to match measured utilization.
Reservations and Savings Plans
Advice on which commitments to buy, for how long, and for which workloads.
Storage Tiering and Lifecycle Rules
Blob data moved between hot, cool, cold and archive tiers automatically as it ages.
Tagging, Budgets and Alerts
Cost ownership by team or project, with alerts before a budget is exceeded.
Ongoing Cost Reviews
A regular check of new spend, with fixes for anything that has crept back.
Why HabileLabs for Azure Cost Optimization
HabileLabs is a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Azure Infrastructure, Data & AI and Digital & App Innovation.
- Three Microsoft Solutions Partner designations for Azure
- 38+ Azure specialists
- Cold-storage backup costs cut by 50% for Marsons Energy
- Managed Azure services from the same team, so savings hold after the review
- Cost optimization on AWS too, for businesses that run on both clouds
Tell us how you use Azure today, and we will show you where the money goes and what to fix first.