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A fixed-price Azure review for small businesses: where the money goes, whether the setup is sound and what to fix first. Written down in plain English, with no obligation to hire us for the fixes.
Azure first; AWS and Google Cloud too. In person in Midlothian, Chesterfield and Richmond, and remote across the U.S.
Every review is scoped to the environment you agree with us. Not every topic applies to every business, and we skip what does not.
We read your bills and Azure Advisor’s findings, then look past them: idle and oversized resources, whether Reservations or Savings Plans fit your steady usage, and where tags are missing so nobody can say who owns a cost.
A budget with alert emails so a surprise shows up in days, not on next month’s invoice. Alerts warn you; they do not automatically stop spending.
Subscriptions, naming, tagging and who can do what. A small-business version of a landing zone, checked against the Azure Well-Architected Framework: cost, security, reliability, operations and performance.
Your environment described in Bicep or Terraform, kept in a repository, so a rebuild is repeatable and the setup is written down rather than lived in one person’s head.
Changes go through a pull request: someone reads the change, approves it and there is a record of who and when. Right-sized for a small team, not enterprise process.
Who has access to what in Entra and Microsoft 365, stale accounts and over-broad roles. We write down what we see; your IT provider confirms and changes security settings.
Whether backups appear to exist for the resources we review. We report what we observe. We do not test restores, certify anything or manage backups.
Moving an agreed app, server or set of files to Azure, or sizing one before you commit. Quoted around your actual workload, never a flat price for an unknown.
One AI use case on Foundry or Azure OpenAI with sign-in-only access, logging and a budget with alerts. Your data stays in your tenant.
Terms you may have heard: Azure Advisor, Reservations, Savings Plans, tagging, landing zone, Well-Architected Framework, Bicep, Terraform, pull request, Entra.
Azure subscription costs and licences are separate. Changes are quoted or booked as help hours.
Azure cost check-up
$950
Review date and handover agreed in your quote
Review Azure bills and resource use. Identify unused capacity and right-sized options, with a prioritized savings plan and the trade-offs explained.
Includes one 30-minute findings call.
Recommendations, not a guaranteed saving. Changes require your approval and a separate scope.
Not included: making the changes, ongoing management or Azure costs.
Azure architecture review
$750
Review date and handover agreed in your quote
Review the agreed Azure environment, its access, reliability and likely costs. Get a plain-language findings report and a prioritized improvement plan.
Includes one 30-minute findings call.
A review of the agreed environment; changes and ongoing operation are separate.
Not included: making the changes, ongoing management, 24/7 support or Azure costs.
Azure AI setup
from $2,500
Project timeline agreed before work begins
One use case on Foundry or Azure OpenAI, sign-in-only access, logging, a budget with alerts, testing and handover.
Includes one round of adjustments after handover.
Cloud usage and licenses are separate. Budget alerts do not automatically cap spending. Further use cases and ongoing operation are separate.
Not included: ongoing management, 24/7 support, or licence and Azure usage costs.
Prepaid help hours: 5 hours $575, 10 hours $1,100. Single hours $125. No monthly retainer, and hours do not expire. Used Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm Eastern, remote or on-site in Chesterfield, Midlothian and Richmond. Hours beyond your prepaid balance are $125 an hour.
The Tech & AI Check-up ($295) looks across your tools and AI use, and comes off a project if you go ahead within 30 days. See what it includes ↗
Short screen recordings on a sample environment, not a client account.
We find where money is going and recommend what to change, with the trade-offs. We cannot promise a saving, and nothing changes without your approval. Making the changes is a separate scope, quoted or booked as hours.
No. We review, set up and hand over. We do not sell managed services, monitoring or 24/7 support. After handover, your team or existing provider runs it, and extra help is booked hours.
Azure is where our certifications are. We also work in AWS and Google Cloud. The same questions apply there: where the money goes, who can change what and whether it can be rebuilt. AWS and Google Cloud reviews are quoted around your accounts.
Read-only access to the subscription or account for a review, granted by you and removed at handover. We do not need your passwords. Anything that changes your environment is agreed in writing first.
Sometimes it is not. If your tools fit in Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, the honest answer may be to keep what you have. We say so, and the check-up credit is not wasted: it comes off the project if you go ahead.
We note what we can see, such as whether a backup appears to be configured, and pass it to your IT provider. We do not audit, test or certify security or backups.
Sources: Azure Advisor cost recommendations · Azure Well-Architected Framework · Bicep overview.
In-person visits in Chesterfield, Midlothian and Richmond; remote anywhere in the U.S. Consulting is booked Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm Eastern. Your accounts stay yours.
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