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Consolidating on Azure, with a 30% leaner bill
A simple lift-and-shift move to Azure, the cloud their team already knew, so they no longer carry the complexity of running two cloud providers. The move was the moment to clean out unused resources and rightsize the rest, and that is what brought the monthly bill down by 30%.
- From
- AWS
- To
- Azure
- Services
- Cloud migration, cleanup, rightsizing, cost monitoring
- Approach
- Lift and shift
- Timeline
- About 1 month
30%lower monthly cloud cost, from cleanup and rightsizing
1cloud provider instead of two
Lift and shiftworkloads moved as they were, no rebuild
The challenge
Their setup was split across two cloud providers, and running both side by side added complexity. The only person on their team who knew AWS was leaving, and everyone else worked with Azure, so keeping both would have meant depending on knowledge that was about to walk out the door. Over the years, their setup had also collected resources nobody used anymore.
What we did
Three things, done together.
Lift and shiftWorkloads moved to Azure as they were. No rebuild, so the migration stayed simple.
RightsizingCompute and storage sized to what the workloads actually use, instead of carrying the old sizes over.
CleanupThe move surfaced resources nobody needed anymore, and we removed them.
The result
The cleanup and the rightsizing together brought the monthly cloud bill down by 30%. The move itself was about consolidating on the cloud their team knows: one provider instead of two, without the complexity of running both side by side, and all their resources in one place. We still support them through Control Center, keeping an eye on their cloud costs and flagging any spikes. They have access to Control Center too, so both sides see the same numbers.