Use cases / Cost Optimization
Stop asking where your cloud spend went. Start understanding why.
CloudBound continuously analyzes your Azure and Microsoft 365 environment to identify unnecessary spending, licensing waste, inefficient architectures, underutilized resources and opportunities to reduce cost without increasing operational risk.
Built for IT leaders who need business recommendations, not another billing dashboard.
The problem
Cost isn't the problem. Visibility is.
Ask, don't dig
Ask business questions instead of reading dashboards.
>Why did Azure costs increase last month?
>Which subscriptions have the most optimization potential?
>How much are we wasting on unused resources?
>Which virtual machines are oversized?
>Where can we reduce Microsoft licensing costs?
>Which SQL databases are overprovisioned?
>If we shut down development environments overnight, how much could we save?
>What are our biggest quick wins?
Every answer returns an executive recommendation: estimated savings, business impact, confidence, affected resources, implementation effort and the recommended next step.
Beyond billing
CloudBound looks beyond cloud billing.
- Azure
- Microsoft 365
- Entra ID
- Virtual Machines
- Storage
- Networking
- SQL
- App Services
- AKS
- Azure DevOps
- Defender
- Licensing
- Power Platform
- Identity
CloudBound reasons across all of them together instead of optimizing each independently.
Coverage
What CloudBound optimizes.
>Rightsize virtual machines
>Idle App Services
>SQL sizing
>Container efficiency
>Development environments
>Reserved Instances
>Savings Plans
>Hybrid Benefit
>Unused storage
>Idle public IPs
>Networking costs
>Backup policies
>Log Analytics retention
>License optimization
>Defender licensing
>Power Platform licensing
>Identity licensing
>Duplicate services
>Resource lifecycle
>Tagging consistency
Example executive recommendation
One estate. One recommendation. Every number explained.
CloudBound identified oversized virtual machines, duplicate Log Analytics workspaces, unused Premium SSDs, redundant Defender licensing and SQL instances running significantly below capacity. Projected savings require no application redesign.
- Rightsize 43 VMs
- Move 18 workloads to Reserved Instances
- Delete 214 orphaned disks
- Reduce Log Analytics retention
- Consolidate SQL tiers
- Optimize Microsoft licensing
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Business outcomes
Built for the whole decision.
Outcomes
- Reduce cloud spend
- Improve budget forecasting
- Optimize Microsoft licensing
- Prioritize engineering effort
Typical stakeholders
- CIO
- CFO
- FinOps
- Cloud Platform Team
- Engineering
What you receive
Artifacts, not just answers.
Every opportunity ranked by value and effort, with the evidence that found it.
DRAFTED FOR YOUR REVIEWRemediation drafted as scripts your team reviews, adjusts and runs on its own terms.
DRAFTED FOR YOUR REVIEWUnused and misassigned licenses across Microsoft 365, Defender, Power Platform and identity.
DRAFTED FOR YOUR REVIEWWhat was recovered, what remains and what it funds next.
DRAFTED FOR YOUR REVIEWCost optimization is one application of the CloudBound intelligence platform. The same engine that finds the waste also briefs the board and traces the root cause.
Customer-hosted by design
Your data stays where it lives.
CloudBound runs inside your Azure environment. No production telemetry leaves the tenant unless you configure it to.
- Customer-owned storage
- Customer-owned identity
- Customer-controlled access
- Human review for optimization decisions
Understand every dollar. Optimize every decision.
CloudBound transforms your Microsoft technology estate into actionable financial intelligence, so your teams spend less time investigating and more time improving.