Azure Cost Management
Nusa Advisory’s Azure Cost Management service brings clarity to your cloud spending and identifies opportunities to reduce costs. Monthly reviews, targeted alerts and practical guidance help your organization understand cost changes, make informed decisions and maintain greater control over its Azure budget.
Month-on-month Invoice Analysis
Nusa Advisory compares your latest Azure invoice with the previous month to identify changes in resource costs and consumption. The analysis highlights the main spending increases and decreases and the resources driving them, helping your organization understand how changes in usage or the Azure environment affect overall costs. This provides a clear basis for validating expected changes, investigating unexpected variances and prioritizing areas that require attention.
Reservations and Savings Plans
Nusa Advisory reviews additional Azure discount opportunities each month alongside your existing reservations and Savings Plans. We assess eligible resources, potential savings and their expected technical and business lifespan to determine whether a commitment is appropriate. Eligibility alone does not justify a purchase; recommendations reflect expected usage and business needs.
Discussion of eligible resources and potential savings.
Placement of a new reservation by us following approval by the organization.
Activation of a Reservation Utilization Alert for a new reservation.
Automated check every seven days to verify full utilization.
Automated email notification to agreed contacts when utilization falls short, enabling a joint decision to be made.
Waste Resources
Nusa Advisory reviews your Azure resources each month to identify potentially unnecessary costs, such as disks retained after their associated virtual machines have been deleted. We highlight suspected waste for your organization to assess against operational needs, dependencies and retention requirements. This helps distinguish avoidable spending from resources that still serve a purpose, enabling informed decisions on what to retain, modify or remove.
Budget Alerts and Follow-up
Nusa Advisory works with your organization to configure budget alerts that flag potential spending overruns early. When an alert is triggered, we investigate the cause using daily resource data and share our findings, helping you determine whether the increase reflects expected activity or requires corrective action.
Tagging
Nusa Advisory helps your organization improve cost allocation and accountability through a consistent Azure tagging strategy. Tags such as cost center, department, project and environment make it easier to group spending, support internal chargeback and showback, and identify responsibility for costs. Our monthly analysis highlights subscriptions and resources missing the relevant tags, helping you prioritize updates. Azure Policy can help enforce tagging standards, while Microsoft Cost Management’s tag inheritance can apply subscription and resource group tags to usage records for more complete cost reporting.
Daily Resource Consumption Patterns
Nusa Advisory analyzes daily Azure consumption by meter and submeter category to reveal usage patterns and unexpected peaks. These insights help your organization investigate unusual activity and assess whether resources could be shut down during quieter periods, such as weekends. The focus is on improving visibility and control, with cost savings dependent on the findings and actions taken.
Chargeback and Showback
Nusa Advisory’s chargeback and showback reports identify which Azure resources benefit from reservations or Savings Plans and the savings achieved. Using amortized cost data, commitment costs can be spread over their term and allocated to the resources that consume the benefits, supporting clearer reporting by department, project or cost center. The reports can also highlight unused commitments, helping your organization understand where expected value is not being realized. This strengthens cost transparency, supports internal cost allocation and provides a clearer basis for future purchasing decisions.
Frequency and Output Overview
Invoice variance analysis
Monthly analysis explaining cost changes compared with the previous month.
Reservations and Savings Plans
Monthly overview of opportunities and recommendations, with follow-up actions subject to your approval.
Utilization monitoring
Reservation utilization checks every seven days once the alert is activated, with notifications of underutilization.
Waste analysis
Monthly overview of potentially unnecessary resources and associated costs.
Budget alerting
Once alerts are configured, each triggered alert prompts root-cause analysis and communication on potential follow-up actions.
Tagging analysis
Monthly overview of subscriptions and resources with missing tags.
Daily consumption patterns
Overview of consumption patterns by meter and submeter category as part of the analysis.
Chargeback/showback
Periodic reporting on resources covered by reservations or Savings Plans and the savings achieved.
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