DIY Kit · Azure Bill Self-Review
Your Azure Health Score, savings range and 30-day plan, in three days, without a consultant.
For teams spending about $10k+ a month on Azure who’d rather run the review themselves, with an expert checking the answer before it reaches the CFO.
AUD $497 inc GST, one-off
Buy the DIY Kit →Secure checkout by Stripe. Tax invoice emailed; add your ABN at checkout.
What you get
Not a book about the method: the tools that run it against your own tenant, and do the arithmetic for you.
Read-only evidence collectors
Job: run all 30 queries across every subscription you can read and write one CSV per query, in PowerShell or Bash.
Saves: running queries one at a time in the portal, and paging past Resource Graph’s 1,000-row limit by hand.
30 Resource Graph queries
Job: find known waste patterns, from unattached disks and idle gateways to missing hybrid benefit and reservation candidates. Each says why it costs money and how to price it.
Saves: writing and debugging the queries yourself.
Excel calculator
Job: turns your findings into annual savings, a Cloud Health Score and band, a savings range by confidence tier and a one-page summary, with live formulas.
Saves: building the spreadsheet and checking its arithmetic.
The step-by-step guide
Job: the method in five steps: what to export, what to ask, what to look for, how to score it and how to write it up, with a worked example.
Saves: inventing and testing a method of your own.
Two-page quick start
Job: the path, the time each step takes, and what “done” looks like.
Saves: working out where to begin.
Summary and CFO email
Job: an editable one-page executive summary in Word, and a short email to send it up the line.
Saves: a blank page when it’s time to write to finance.
Bonuses that remove the risk
A 45-minute findings-review call
On a video call with me, Gaurav Bodar, within 30 days of purchase. Before your summary goes to the CFO, I check the calculator and the page: the arithmetic, the confidence tiers, the double-counting traps, and whether each finding reads right to a finance reader.
30 days of email questions
A script error, a query result you’re unsure about, a tier you can’t decide: email admin@cloudsavings.cloud any time in your first 30 days.
The guarantee
The conditions: you ran the export script and filled in the calculator. Savings are counted from the act-now and validate-first tiers, the same way as the Review’s fee-back guarantee. Email the calculator to admin@cloudsavings.cloud within 30 days of purchase. No forms, and you keep the kit.
Is this for you?
Yes, if:
- You spend about $10k+ a month on Azure.
- Someone has Reader access across your subscriptions.
- That person can protect three days over the next two weeks.
Not if:
- You want continuous monitoring and alerts. Buy a cost-management platform instead.
- You can’t find three days. Book the Review and I’ll do it for you.
How it compares
Every option here has a place. This is what’s true of each kind, so you can pick the one that fits.
Swipe the table sideways to see every option →
| Option | Free Microsoft tools | Cost-management platforms | Books | DIY Kit | The Review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | Included with Azure | Ongoing subscription, often priced on your Azure spend; free trials are common | About AUD $15–$100 | AUD $497 inc GST, once | From AUD $3,500 +GST |
| Time to a CFO-ready answer | Recommendations straight away; the CFO page is yours to write | Dashboards soon after connecting; the CFO page is yours to write | Weeks: read it, then build your own method and spreadsheets | About 3 days of one person’s time | From 3 business days, done for you |
| Needs a new vendor with tenant access | No | Yes, usually a read-only connection to your tenant | No | No. Scripts run under your own login | No. Works from exports you send |
| Prioritised savings range with confidence tiers | No. Individual recommendations with estimates | Prioritisation varies by product | Only if you build it | Yes, the calculator does it | Yes |
| Expert checks your result | No | Product support | No | Yes, a 45-minute findings-review call | Yes, an expert does the work |
| Ongoing monitoring | Budgets and anomaly alerts you set up | Yes: continuous monitoring, alerts and automation. Their strength. | No | No. A point-in-time review | No. A point-in-time review |
| Independent of what’s recommended | Written by the platform vendor | You’re buying the platform’s licence | Yes | Yes. No licences, services or remediation sold | Yes. No licences, services or remediation sold |
Questions
Isn’t Azure Advisor free?
Yes, and you should use it: the kit pulls in Advisor’s cost recommendations as one of its inputs. Advisor tells you what each resource could save. It doesn’t rank them, name an owner, tier them by confidence or write the page your CFO reads.
Why not just buy a book?
A good book teaches the method; it doesn’t run it. The kit gives you scripts, queries and a calculator that do the work against your own tenant, and an expert to check your answer.
Why not a cost-management tool?
If you want continuous monitoring, alerts and automation, a platform is the right buy, and the kit won’t replace it. If you want a one-off, independent answer without connecting a new vendor to your tenant or taking on a recurring licence, the kit is built for that.
$497 for a PDF?
It isn’t a PDF. It’s scripts, 30 queries, a calculator, templates and a guide, plus a 45-minute call where I check your result before it reaches the CFO. If it doesn’t help you find $5,000 a year, you get your money back.
We don’t have time.
Then the Review is a better fit: I do the work for you, from three business days. If you’ve already bought the kit, your $497 comes off the Review’s fee when you book within 30 days.
Is it safe? Do you need access to our tenant?
No access needed. The scripts run under your own login, only read from Azure Resource Graph, and are short enough to read before you run them. Nothing is sent to me unless you choose to share the calculator for your call.
What if we find nothing?
Then you get your money back. If the kit doesn’t help you find at least AUD $5,000 a year in savings, email the filled-in calculator within 30 days for a full refund.
Will I get a tax invoice?
Yes. Stripe emails a tax invoice showing the GST, and you can add your ABN at checkout.
Can I share it with my team?
Yes. It’s licensed for use within your organisation, so share it with anyone there. Please don’t pass it outside.
What happens after I pay?
You go straight to the download page, and you’ll get an email with the download link so you can come back to it. Then book your findings-review call and start with Step 1.
Get your answer this fortnight.
AUD $497 inc GST. Scripts, queries, calculator, templates and guide, plus a findings-review call and a $5,000 savings guarantee.
Buy the DIY Kit →Book the Review within 30 days and your $497 comes off its fee.