Recovering $90,000 per month in Azure spend for a large multi-entity organization through a structured environment audit, Microsoft licensing optimization, and workload consolidation across a unified 14-company Azure footprint.
A structured three-phase engagement reduced the client’s monthly Azure spend by approximately $90,000. Unused resources, over-provisioned virtual machines, and unoptimized licensing were identified and eliminated, turning accumulated waste into measurable savings.
Savings plans and reservations were applied accurately to client’s workload profile, delivering $40,000 per month in licensing reductions. This represented the single largest source of savings across the engagement, and one that is designed
to hold.
The audit and optimization work gave the insurance provider a significantly clearer view of their Azure environment, enabling accurate cost forecasting and ongoing financial control across a complex, consolidated infrastructure that had previously lacked clear oversight.
Maintech conducted a full resource-level audit of the client’s Azure tenant, identifying and removing unused and legacy assets accumulated across 14 merged companies. This process eliminated $20,000 per month in redundant spend without any disruption to live workloads.
Using workload data gathered during the audit, Maintech applied savings plans and reservations precisely matched to the client’s usage patterns, delivering $40,000 per month in licensing cost reductions and establishing a licensing posture that reflects how the infrastructure is actually used.
Virtual machines were rightsized to match actual workload requirements, and eligible services, including SQL Server instances, were migrated to Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings such as SQL Managed Instances and Azure SQL Database. This phase contributed a further $20,000 per month in savings.