Cloud Architecture and Design Services
Cost Optimization
Billing Account Setup for Expenses Review & Budget Management
Account Management
- Purchase and Management of MCA Billing accounts, Profiles and Invoices
Design Resource/Cost Entity Hierarchy
- Design of Resource Entity Hierarchy for Cost Management and Chargeback
- Subscription and Resource group design to adhere to CAF Landing Zone Design
- Design adhering to Regulatory Compliance Requirements, DEV/TEST/PROD environment boundaries & Shared Resources
Cost Management Taxonomy
- Defining the tagging processes
- Azure policies to enfore cost management tags
Design & Provision Time Considerations for Cost Optimization
Evaluation of Non-Functional Requirements against Cost Factor
- Deep & careful assessment of Scalability, HA, Security, Data redundancy & operational requirements
- Assesment report (Design decisions)
Choosing Right Services and Right Sizing of Resources
- Help customers choose the right services
- Help customers right size the services (per environment and workload)
Initial Cost Estimate & Budgets
Expense Projection & Budgets
- Projected expenses for the agreed Design
- Create budgets
Cost Analysis & Actions
Reactive Cost Reviews
- Assessment of budgets against expenses
- Configuration of Alerts
- Budget-refining process
Proactive Cost reviews
- Periodic Cost Analysis Sessions
- Processing of Azure Advisor recommendations
Implementations of Cost Savings Measures
- Automated procedures to reduce costs (all applicable environments)
