Azure Cost & Health Review
How a review runs
Fixed price, three business days for most estates, and no access to your Azure tenant. Here is exactly what happens, what I need from you and what you get.
The steps
The timings below are for a Starter Review. Larger estates follow the same steps over the timeline set in your proposal.
- 30-minute callOn a video call. I ask about your spend, what’s changed and who owns it. If a review isn’t the right fit, I’ll tell you.
- Snapshot and proposalWithin 24 hours: a free one-page Snapshot of what I heard, and a written proposal with a fixed fee.
- Engagement letter and depositConfirm by email and I send the Engagement Letter and deposit invoice the same day. Work starts once the letter is signed and the deposit has cleared.
- Kick-offWithin one business day: the export guide and an invitation to the Day 1 workshop.
- Day 1A 90-minute discovery workshop, and your team sends the exports. Day 1 is the day all required exports arrive, not the day the letter is signed.
- Days 2–3Assessment: spend profile, waste sweep, commitment analysis, allocation and governance.
- Report deliveredOn Day 3, the final day of a Starter Review.
- 60-minute readoutWithin two business days of the report, on a video call, for your team and finance.
- One round of clarificationQuestions on the report are answered and any corrections made.
- Sign-off and balance invoiceWithin two business days of the readout: a completion and sign-off form, and the balance invoice.
If exports arrive late, the timeline moves by the same number of days.
What I need from you
- A named point of contact.
- Stakeholders for the Day 1 workshop, 90 minutes.
- These exports by the end of Day 1:
- Cost Management export: actual cost for the last 3 months, daily, as CSV
- Azure Advisor recommendations: all categories and subscriptions, as CSV
- Subscription list: name, ID, purpose and owner
- Resource inventory, including tags, as CSV
Helpful if available: reservation and savings plan utilisation, your Azure Policy compliance summary, your management group structure, and your tagging standard. Screenshots are fine.
A step-by-step export guide is sent on acceptance. Your team can produce everything in under an hour of hands-on time.
The review works from the exports your team provides. If you’d rather offer read-only access, that’s optional, never required, and never write access. Please never send passwords or keys.
What you get
Cloud Health Score
One score across five areas, with the reasoning behind it.
Top 5 findings
Each one shows the business impact, a risk rating and an estimated monthly cost.
Top 3 priorities and a 30-day plan
What to do first, and who owns it.
60-minute executive readout
On a video call, for your team and finance.
Also included: an estimated savings range by confidence tier, a cost assessment, risk register and 90-day roadmap. See a sample report →
Commercial terms
- Fees
- Starter Review AUD $3,500 +GST, fixed, 3 business days. Estates between Starter and Enterprise get a fixed quote in writing after the discovery call. Enterprise Review from AUD $9,500 +GST. See pricing →
- GST
- CloudSavings is registered for GST. 10% GST is added to each tax invoice.
- Deposit and balance
- Deposit of $2,500 or 50% of the fee, whichever is higher, invoiced on signing and due within 7 days. Balance invoiced on sign-off and due within 14 days.
- Payment
- By EFT to the bank account on the tax invoice. I will never change bank details by email; please call to verify before paying a new account.
- Fee-back guarantee
- Starter Review only. If the review identifies less than its fee in estimated annual savings, I refund the fee in full and you keep the report. Only act-now and validate-first savings count. Applies when the required exports arrive and your stakeholders attend the Day 1 workshop; the refund must be requested within 14 days of the readout.
- Changes of scope
- The fee covers the agreed scope and one round of clarification. Anything further is quoted in writing at $200 an hour +GST and only worked with your written approval.
- Insurance
- Professional indemnity and public liability insurance, $10 million each.
How your data is handled
- Exports only. No access to your Azure tenant is needed.
- Exports are used only for your review and kept in a folder dedicated to your organisation, never mixed with other clients.
- Analysis is assisted by AI tools under commercial terms that do not permit your data to be used for model training. Identifiers are removed before text analysis wherever practical. I calculate and check every figure.
- Your exports are deleted 30 days after the executive readout. The final report is kept for our records unless you ask us to delete it.
- Your organisation is never named publicly, or in any case study, without your written consent. Anything I publish is fully anonymised.
What I don’t do
- Implement the recommendations, or any remediation
- Ongoing monitoring
- Tool deployment
- Incident response
- Stakeholder meetings beyond the readout
- Re-run the assessment after changes are made
I sell no licences, managed services, software or remediation, so the findings have nothing attached to them.
Extra stakeholder sessions or a follow-up review can be quoted separately.
Questions
Do you need access to our Azure tenant?
No. The review runs on exports your team sends, using a step-by-step guide. Read-only access is optional if you prefer it, and never required.
How much of our team’s time does it take?
Under an hour of hands-on time to produce the exports, the 90-minute Day 1 workshop, and the 60-minute readout. Your named contact answers the occasional question in between.
What if you don’t find much?
On a Starter Review, if I identify less than the fee in estimated annual savings, you get the fee back and keep the report. If your estate is well run, the report says so.
Can you fix what you find?
No. That keeps the review independent: I have nothing to gain from what it recommends. Your team, or any supplier you choose, can act on it.
We’re under $30k a month. Is it worth it?
Probably not: at that spend a paid review is unlikely to pay for itself. The DIY Kit gives your team the same method for AUD $497 inc GST.
Find out where your Azure spend is going.
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