A manufacturing organisation operating across several divisions already had Maintech managing its main company infrastructure in Azure, an environment built and optimised as part of the original onboarding. One of its divisions, though, ran its server infrastructure in a separate Azure space managed by a different provider.
That inherited environment held only eight servers, yet it was costing close to the same as the 25-server environment Maintech ran. The company asked the obvious question: why was the smaller space costing almost as much as the larger one?
After taking over and consolidating the division’s Azure space, Maintech reduced its running cost from approximately $8,000 per month to around $4,000 per month of added spend within the main environment.
The division’s separately managed Azure space was migrated into the company’s main Azure environment, removing the duplication, split management, and inconsistent cost controls that came with running it apart.
The eight-server environment had been billing well above the value it delivered. With waste removed, workloads rightsized, and savings plans applied, its cost now reflects what the division actually uses.
Maintech assumed management of the division’s third-party-managed Azure environment and migrated its workloads into the company’s main Azure footprint, consolidating both under a single, optimised deployment.
Unused resources left in the inherited environment were identified and decommissioned, and virtual machines were rightsized to match real workload requirements rather than carried-over specifications.
Azure savings plans and reservations were applied to the consolidated workloads, and eligible servers were converted to Platform-as-a-Service offerings to deliver equivalent performance at a lower ongoing cost.