The £700k Cosmos DB instance Microsoft said was fine
A customer spending eight figures on Azure asked Microsoft about a heavily underutilised £700k database. The answer explains why cost optimisation never comes from your cloud provider.
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Azure FinOps thinking for MSP delivery teams
Technical lessons, commercial choices and operating patterns for turning cost optimisation into a service clients can understand and renew.
Azure Lighthouse doesn't project permissions onto data-plane APIs. Here's what breaks.
Azure Lighthouse delegation works for ARM control-plane calls but silently fails for data-plane APIs like Metrics Batch. What breaks, why, and the fallback that works at scale.
Why percentage-of-spend pricing quietly kills MSP FinOps practices
A commercial outline for MSP leaders choosing a FinOps pricing model that rewards delivery rather than rising Azure consumption.