Azure organization and cost reduction

A success story, in which the reorganization of Azure resources has significantly reduced Azure costs. The features of Microsoft Azure and the consumption-based methods of use bring a lot of flexibility to those who decide to adopt the platform.

At the same time, however, its massive use requires a categorization of resources, exploiting resource groups both for reasons of “order” and for security reasons.

Separating the various environments into different resource groups and then applying permissions to individual groups is useful for organizations but in this way the resources on Azure proliferate causing:

• increase in overhead costs for the use of the platform
• increase in time for configuring and maintaining resources
• increased effort for security management

Cost savings, thanks to a new architecture

We have analyzed in detail the costs and the type of resources that were in use by the customer to understand what resources could be put together and then start the activity of reorganizing thanks to a new Azure Architecture.

We then completed the package with an automatic management of the releases of these resources through ARM (Azure Resource Manager) templates and an automatic pipeline for installing the resources through Azure DevOps to allow the customer to have a recovery mechanism for the entire Azure resource infrastructure.

The development of the new Azure Architecture

During the management of the Azure Architecture development project, our experts fully respected the customer’s needs:

• The division of resources by project has been maintained.‍
• Resources with fixed payment have been put at common factor and consumable resources have been used to the maximum.‍
• Security has been put at the forefront: all common resources are in charge of the company’s IT, while operational freedom has been left at the project level. ‍

Reducing Azure costs

The Azure Architecture designed by our experts has allowed the customer to save 70% of costsAzure that he planned to face.

This significant reduction in costs was also accompanied by a more robust organization than the tenant, which has been prepared for centralized management of common resources (both from a configuration and security point of view), for a management of project resources delegated to those who deal with specific solutions and for a disaster & recovery system for the entire infrastructure.