Develop
Repair the code, queries and connections behind slow or expensive work.
02 / Within performance & cost
CloudInfrastructure
Reduce waste with measured reliability safeguards.
The challenge
Cloud infrastructure work belongs within our Performance & Cost practice. We map Azure and other cloud workloads, remove confirmed waste and test capacity changes against the reliability your business needs.
Before & after
From friction to flow.
Before
- Bills grow faster than usage
- Nobody knows what some services do
- Duplicate tools nobody needs
After
- A clear map of spend and value
- Capacity matched to real demand
- Savings reviewed against uptime and performance targets
What we offer
How we help.
01Cloud Cost Review
Connect cloud spend to useful work, then change the code and capacity driving unnecessary cost.
→02Right-sizing & Capacity
Match what you run to what you actually use.
→03Tool & License Consolidation
Retire the tools and licences nobody needs.
→04Reliability & Resilience
Cost reductions tested against your reliability needs.
→In detail
How it looks in practice.
01
Cloud Cost Review
A view of the services, licences and environments within the agreed scope, using available cost and ownership records.
02
Right-sizing & Capacity
We compare spend with real usage and right-size what is oversized, idle or duplicated.
03
Tool & License Consolidation
Changes are tested and monitored against agreed reliability targets, with change-specific rollback or recovery steps and remaining risks recorded.
Process01
Inventory
Inventory
List the services and environments within the agreed scope.
Analyse
Compare cost with real usage.
Optimise
Right-size, consolidate and retire.
Track
Dashboards that keep spend visible.
Development · AI · Automation
Automate repeatable cloud operations.
We implement monitored schedules, workload alerts and reviewed infrastructure changes, with clear ownership for exceptions.
Infrastructure as code · monitored automation
Apply AI
Find patterns in performance evidence and test AI workloads for useful answers at a sensible cost.
Automate
Check releases, flag unusual spend and catch regressions before they become routine.
Success criteriaAgree the baseline.
Agree the baseline.
Measure the difference.
01
Workload cost and ownership
02
Capacity and recovery under demand
03
Monitoring and rollback readiness
Measurement priorities and project targets are agreed after diagnosis.
Tools
Tools we work with.
AWSAzureGoogle CloudTerraformKubernetesDockerGrafanaPrometheus
Deliverables
What you receive.
01
Cost map
In-scope services, available costs and ownership details.
02
Right-sizing plan
Capacity matched to real demand.
03
Savings roadmap
Ranked by saving and by risk.
04
Rollback plans
Document rollback or recovery steps, including changes that cannot be fully undone.
Worked example
Review the cost of a growing service.
An illustrative infrastructure review.
- Question
- Traffic and hosting costs are rising. Which workloads need more capacity, and which resources are idle?
- Method
- Compare billing, resource usage and response times over the same period. Test one proposed change against normal and peak traffic, with agreed recovery steps.
- Verification
- Compare cost per successful request, errors and response times before and after. Record traffic differences and any reliability trade-offs before recommending wider rollout.
FAQ
Common questions.
Is infrastructure a separate core service?
It is a specialist area within Performance & Cost. It remains available as a focused engagement.
Which cloud is your focus?
Azure is a focus. We assess other cloud environments against the scope and systems involved.
Can changes affect reliability?
Yes. We assess dependencies, preserve operating headroom, test changes and agree rollback thresholds before rollout.