Sized for an old peak
Compute was increased for a migration, launch, test cycle, or seasonal spike, then never reviewed against current utilisation.
Solution
Right-size Azure virtual machines before yesterday's peak becomes tomorrow's bill.
Azure VMs are often left sized for migration, launch, or worst-case demand. EtherInsights helps teams spot oversized and idle compute, validate safe changes, and produce savings evidence owners can act on.
10-20%
recurring Azure savings often available from right-sizing and reclaim
Owner-led
each resize candidate needs a technical owner and decision trail
Evidence first
utilisation, cost, and dependency context before change
The problem
Azure VMs stay oversized because nobody wants to break production for a small-looking saving.
Azure virtual machines often stay sized for yesterday's peak, an old migration assumption, or a cautious launch window. Finance sees the monthly charge, but IT needs workload evidence, ownership, and a safe action path before resizing compute.
Evidence is split
Cost, CPU, memory, uptime, owner, and workload context sit in separate views, so resize decisions take longer than they should.
Risk slows action
Teams hesitate to resize, shut down, or schedule VMs when the dependency picture is unclear or nobody owns the final decision.
What changes
Turn compute waste into controlled actions.
Prioritised right-size candidates
Surface VMs where cost and utilisation suggest the current SKU no longer fits the workload.
Owner-backed review
Attach each candidate to the right technical or service owner before the change becomes a ticket or governance action.
Savings evidence
Keep before-and-after cost, decision notes, and follow-up evidence ready for finance, IT leadership, and MSP review.
The VM sizing view
Move from high bills to safe compute decisions.
EtherInsights connects cost, utilisation, ownership, and review evidence so VM changes are not treated as blind cost cuts. Resize, schedule, reserve, or keep decisions land with context.
Video walkthrough
See Azure cost evidence in context.
Use the cloud cost walkthrough to see how Azure spend, right-sizing evidence, and owner-backed actions fit inside the wider savings review.
- Identify oversized and idle compute.
- Separate safe changes from risky assumptions.
- Keep VM savings inside the wider cost-control rhythm.
How we deliver it
EtherInsights leads the sizing review.
Use EtherInsights when Azure VM cost needs more than a bill export: utilisation evidence, owner context, right-size candidates, idle compute signals, and savings reports. Use the broader cloud cost optimisation route when the review also covers licences, storage, Cloud PCs, reservations, or subscription ownership.
EtherInsights started as the cost management platform for Microsoft 365 and Azure. It shows where spend is going, which owners need to act, and how to turn waste into savings. It now extends that operating view into full Windows 365 lifecycle support, plus tenant, user, security, device, and Intune reporting.
Where this fits
- Azure subscriptions with virtual machines sized for old migration or launch assumptions.
- Development, test, or project VMs that may be idle, oversized, or always-on unnecessarily.
- MSP or internal FinOps reviews that need owner-backed evidence before resize actions.
- Finance-led cost reviews where Azure compute spend needs a defensible technical action plan.
Start here
Find the VMs that are still charging for an old assumption.
Start with an Azure VM sizing review and turn oversized or idle compute into a short, owner-backed savings action list.
- VM right-sizing sits inside the same savings rhythm as Azure cost optimisation, so actions do not drift away from governance.
- Cost and utilisation evidence is tied to owners before anyone is asked to approve a change.
- Resize, schedule, reserve, or keep decisions are framed as controlled actions rather than blanket cost cuts.