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Microsoft cloud & Azure

Your Microsoft cloud: working for you, or just costing you?

Six honest questions, about two minutes. Find out if you are overpaying for Microsoft 365 and Azure, whether it is even set up properly, and roughly what you could claw back. No jargon.

Microsoft Partner Cyber Essentials Certified 20+ years, plain English Fixed price, no lock-in

Most cloud bills have slack in them, nobody ever looks

A cloud setup that grew over the years rarely gets a second look. Licences for people who left, services switched on once and forgotten, sizes set high "to be safe". None of it screams at you. It just quietly leaves every month. Here is where it tends to sit.

Easiest win

Licences nobody uses

Seats for staff who left, add-ons bought for a project that ended, two products doing the same job. The simplest money to get back, and almost every setup has some.

Quiet drain

Azure left running too big

Sizes picked "to be safe" and never trimmed, things switched on for a test and never off. Azure bills creep, and the creep is usually fixable once someone actually looks.

The real risk

Cheap, not actually safe

Running is not the same as set up properly. Microsoft 365 is not backed up by default, and a lot of setups are one wrong click from a bad week. Cheap and convenient can cost you far more than the licence.

The straight version, from the person you would actually deal with

Eric, HiltDigital
"Most owners don't want a lecture about Azure. They want someone to look properly at the bill and tell them straight: this is what you are paying for, this bit is wasted, this bit is not even safe, here is what I would cut. That is all this is. I have spent twenty-plus years sorting Microsoft cloud for places with a lot more on the line than a monthly invoice, so finding the slack in yours is very doable. No jargon, no upsell you do not need."
Eric, HiltDigitalI will be the one you actually talk to . 20+ years sorting this out
Microsoft Partner Cyber Essentials certified (we hold the cert we help you pass) UK registered company Fixed prices, no reselling, no kickbacks

Azure Health Check

  • A proper look at exactly what you are paying for each month, and why
  • Where the waste is: unused licences, duplicate products, Azure left running too big
  • Whether it is actually set up securely and backed up, or just running
  • Right-sizing, so you pay for what you use instead of what you guessed
  • A clear, plain-English plan you own, whoever ends up doing the work
A cloud bill that
earns its keep
The position to be in: every pound mapped to something the business actually uses, no idle spend, and a straight call on what to keep. Most businesses find the slack on the first proper look.
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Start with the call. The Health Check only follows if it is genuinely worth it for you.

The questions we get asked first

Not automatically. Cloud is cheaper when it is sized and tidied properly, and quietly expensive when it is not. Moving to Microsoft 365 and Azure does not clean anything up by itself: the licences you do not use, the services switched on and forgotten, the sizes set high "to be safe", they all just move with you and keep billing. The saving is real, but you have to go and get it. That is exactly what this looks for.
Fair worry, and a lot of the industry has earned it. We do not resell Microsoft licences and we take no kickbacks, so we make nothing from you spending more. If the honest answer is "cut these three things and you are fine", that is what you get. The fixed fee is for the thinking and the plan, not a foot in the door to sell you more.
Small setups are where the slack hides the most, because nobody has the time to go looking. A few unused licences and an Azure resource left running too big add up to real money over a year on a small bill. And "is it actually backed up and secure" matters just as much when you are small, often more, because there is no one to catch the mistake. If the scorecard says there is little to find, we will tell you that on the call, no charge.
Because you should know the cost before you say yes, and you should never feel the meter running. The fixed fee is for an architect to understand your business, go through what you pay for, find the waste and the gaps, and hand you a plan you own. If work follows to put it right, it is scoped openly off the review, never assumed and never padded.