Bringing a multi-cloud bill under management
Mid-market manufacturer · Azure · AWS
Context
After a rapid migration the monthly bill kept growing, and nobody could say which team or product was spending. Reserved capacity had been bought as needed, and licensing overlapped compute the estate no longer needed.
Approach
A cost baseline first: tagging, allocation, one attributable ledger. Then right-sizing against real usage curves, and only then a commitment plan priced on what remained. We installed a monthly review loop with the client's own engineers in the chair.
Outcome
The run-rate came down within the first quarter and stayed down, because a standing review loop, not a one-off cleanup, owns the bill. The team runs it without us.