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SaaS 50-100 Employees USA
Azure Cost Optimization for a 50-100 Employee SaaS Company
A 50-100 employee SaaS company
Business Challenge
Rapid growth led to over-provisioned resources, excessive logging, and increasing Azure spend of $9,200/month. The goal was to optimize without impacting performance.
Our Approach
- Deep dive into cost & resource utilization
- Right-sizing across compute & database
- Re-architect logging & storage strategy
- Implement FinOps & continuous monitoring
Solution Delivered
Optimized a growing Azure environment and achieved a 30% reduction in monthly cloud spend.
Business Outcome
Monthly Azure spend dropped from $9,200 to $6,440, a 30% reduction, saving $2,760/month ($33,120 annualized) with performance maintained across the platform.
Results
$9,200
Before Optimization (Monthly)
$6,440
After Optimization (Monthly)
30%
Monthly Cost Reduction
$2,760
Monthly Savings
$33,120
Annualized Savings
Key Optimizations
Right-sized App Service plan & auto-scaling
Optimized Azure SQL performance tier
Implemented storage lifecycle (Hot to Cool)
Reduced log ingestion & retention
Optimized backup policies
Eliminated unnecessary resources
Implemented budgets & cost alerts
Enabled tagging & cost allocation
Architecture Changes
Before Optimization
Users Azure
Application Tier
App Service Plan (over-provisioned)
Web App 1
Technologies Used
AzureAzure App ServiceAzure SQL DatabaseService BusRedis CacheApplication InsightsAzure CDN
Business Impact: Sustained cost savings, improved performance, and strong cloud cost governance.