Azure Modernisation & Cost Optimisation: The Practical Guide

Explore practical ways to cut Azure spend, modernise workloads, improve efficiency and maximise value from cloud investments.

Agenda:

Understanding the Azure cost optimisation challenge
An introduction to the key drivers of rising cloud costs including legacy architecture, unused resources, poorly sized workloads and duplicated tooling.

Why modernisation reduces cost and improves efficiency
A look at how migrating and modernising workloads in Azure improves elasticity, eliminates technical debt and ensures resources scale in line with demand.

The six paths of modernisation
A breakdown of the rehost, replatform, refactor, rearchitect, rebuild and retire approaches, alongside when each model is appropriate and how it affects cost, performance and long term value.

Optimising infrastructure, data and platforms on Azure
Guidance on using Azure native services such as managed databases, scalable compute, intelligent storage tiers and platform services to lower operational costs.

Leveraging built in governance and controls
How Azure provides cost visibility, budgeting tools, alerting and financial guardrails to help organisations monitor and manage spend proactively.

Security and compliance considerations
How consolidating security services within Azure reduces tool fragmentation and cost overheads.

Real world examples and savings achieved
Practical demonstrations of financial savings, performance improvements and operational efficiency achieved by organisations.

Next steps to maximise cloud value
Actions for assessment, planning, proof of value and continuous optimisation.