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title: "Azure looked after, with the bill explained"
description: "We run your cloud and its bill: watch, updates and rights. $1,290 a month for spend up to $10,000, $4,480 for an environment review and bill breakdown."
locale: en
canonical: https://finleadgen.com/en/services/cloud-operations
source: https://finleadgen.com/en/services/cloud-operations.md
price_reviewed: 2026-08-06
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# Azure looked after, with the bill explained

The cloud watched, the bill kept in check.

**$1,290 per month to run it · $4,480 for the assessment.**

## Who looks at your cloud bill before it arrives?

Usually nobody. Machines were spun up for a task and never switched off. Disks sit detached and still billed. A reservation was bought for a year for a load that no longer exists. The bill climbs in steady steps, and whoever set it all up left long ago.

## Someone who answers for the cloud

We take the environment under daily watch: uptime, updates, backups and rights, alerts triaged and order kept in what already runs. Changes go through a request with a written description, not a quick click in the console on a Friday evening.

Spend is tracked separately. Every month you see what makes up the bill, what grew against last month and what can go without hurting the work: idle machines, forgotten disks, a plan that is cheaper reserved.

The cloud bill stays yours and comes to you directly. Our line is separate, and it is for the work.

| What | State | Price |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Daily watch over the environment: uptime and alerts | included |  |
| Updates, backups and restores that are tested | included |  |
| Access rights: who can do what in the subscription | included |  |
| Changes by request, described and with a way back | included |  |
| A bill review once a month: what it is made of and what grew | included |  |
| Hunting down what you pay for and do not use: machines, disks, addresses | included |  |
| Reservations and plans: what is cheaper under contract | included |  |
| A report with the numbers, and the decisions stay yours | included |  |
| Cloud spend at the provider's bill, mark-up $0.00 | paid to the vendor |  |

## Your price

| Plan | Price | Note |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Spend up to $10,000 a month | $1,290 a month | Daily watch and a bill review |
| Spend $10,000–50,000 | $2,490 a month | The same watch on a bigger environment |
| Spend above $50,000 | $4,500 a month | Plus work on reservations and the contract |
**Spend up to $10,000 a month**
- Watch over the environment, updates, backups and rights
- A bill review once a month with a list to switch off
**Spend $10,000–50,000**
- Watch over the environment, updates, backups and rights
- A bill review once a month with a list to switch off
- Spend split by department and project
**Spend above $50,000**
- Watch over the environment, updates, backups and rights
- A bill review once a month with a list to switch off
- Spend split by department and project
- Reservations, plans and prep for the talk with the provider

## Extras

| What | State | Price |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Environment review and bill breakdown | not included | $4,480 one-off |
| Work beyond the package | not included | $112 an hour |
| A plan to leave VMware, and the migration | not included | $4,030 up to 25 machines |
| Windows Server and SQL upgrade | not included | $2,460 per server |
| Moving email to the cloud | not included | $85 per mailbox |
| Looking after subscriptions and accounts | not included | $7.50 per seat a month |
| Licence audit and renewal review | not included | from $335 per invoice review |
| Employee computers looked after | not included | $102 per seat per month |

### Do we charge you on top of the cloud bill?

Yes, and they are two separate lines. The bill for spend reaches you from the cloud provider directly, with no mark-up on it. Our line is for the work: the watch, the changes and the bill review. Rolling them into one figure would hide one behind the other.

### We are not on Azure. Does that change the price?

No. The price follows cloud spend, not the name on it. The work is the same either way: uptime, updates, rights, backups and the bill review. If you run two clouds, they count together — the environment is still one.

### Spend jumps from month to month. Will the tier jump too?

No. The tier is set by average spend over three months and is reviewed once a quarter, not every time a one-off task ends. A move to the next tier is announced in advance, with the figure.

### What happens in the first month?

An environment review: what is running, who holds rights, where the backups are and what the bill is made of. After that we settle into the normal rhythm. If the review turns up something urgent — ports open to the world, no backups — we say so at once.

## Where to send the quote

Name the cloud and your monthly spend — we will send a quote by email and call if that is easier.