Azure Cost
Governance
Your Azure bill is growing. Can you explain why?
Enterprise FinOps consultancies charge $25K-$60K for a multi-week assessment. SaaS cost platforms start at $500-$1,000/month. Neither of those are built for your world. AWACS delivers right-sized cloud cost governance for companies spending $5K-$50K/month on Azure. Deployed as IaC into your environment. You own it.
How It Works
Every engagement follows the same pattern. You review and approve everything before it touches your environment.
Discovery
We scan your Azure environment via Cost Management APIs. Read-only access. Zero risk to your running environment.
Analysis
12 months of historical cost data, organized by subscription and resource group. Trend modeling, anomaly detection, and growth patterns identified.
Report
You review findings, recommended budgets, and alert thresholds. Adjust anything that doesn't fit your needs.
You Approve
Nothing deploys without your explicit sign-off. Every budget and threshold is reviewed before anything touches your environment.
We Deploy
Approved configuration deployed as infrastructure-as-code into your environment. No ongoing platform to manage. No SaaS subscription. No vendor lock-in.
Pick Your Starting Point
Each tier builds on the previous. Start with visibility, add alerting when ready, scale to automation.
Your Azure spending, organized and visible.
- Cost dashboard deployed via IaC
- Subscription-level cost summary
- 12-month historical trends
- Resource group breakdown per subscription
- Month-over-month change tracking
- Double-digit growth flagged
Stop finding out about cost problems on the invoice.
- Everything in Visibility, plus:
- Full discovery scan at subscription + RG level
- 12-month historical analysis with trend modeling
- Static alerts — classic threshold notifications
- Trajectory alerts — projected to exceed budget by month end
- Velocity alerts — spend rate accelerating vs. last month
- New resource group detection (zero-to-nonzero spend)
- Existing alert audit
Budget alerts become budget enforcement.
- Everything in Budget Alerting, plus:
- Automated responses at budget thresholds
- At 80%: alert + scale down non-production
- At 90%: alert + shut down dev/test environments
- At 100%: alert + escalate + freeze non-critical
- Custom actions scoped per resource group
- Full action audit trail and logging
- Monthly review and adjustment
Something spiked. You need to know exactly what happened.
- Resource-level cost analysis within flagged resource groups
- Identification of specific resources driving the spike
- Remediation recommendations (right-size, shut down, re-architect)
Payback Period
| Monthly Azure Spend | Conservative Savings (10%) | Dashboard Payback | Full Alerting Payback |
|---|---|---|---|
| $5,000/mo | $500/mo | 1 month | 5-10 months |
| $10,000/mo | $1,000/mo | Immediate | 2.5-5 months |
| $20,000/mo | $2,000/mo | Immediate | 1-2.5 months |
| $50,000/mo | $5,000/mo | Immediate | Immediate |
Industry data shows companies typically save 20-40% through basic cloud cost optimization. We're using a conservative 10% for visibility and alerting alone.
What Makes This Different
Deployed as IaC, Not a SaaS Platform
The infrastructure lives in your environment. You own it. No vendor dependency, no recurring platform fees.
Right-Sized for Your Spend Level
You shouldn't need a $60K engagement to know where your money is going. Pricing matches reality for mid-market Azure.
Trend-Aware Alerting
Native Azure budget alerts are static thresholds. We deploy trajectory and velocity detection that catches problems before they hit the invoice.
Part of a Broader Governance Practice
Cost is one module. CIS compliance, security posture, and resource lifecycle management follow the same framework.
Your Azure environment is already generating the data we need
A read-only scan takes hours, not weeks. Let's start with a conversation about where your spend is going.