More cost savings, more resilience, more growth
Future-proof your business and do more with less on Azure.
Navigate changing markets and accelerate growth
Position your business to become more innovative and resilient. And, adapt more quickly to evolving markets—with expert help, guidance, tools, and offers for Azure. Doing more on Azure means getting more value from your IT investments—with less cost, less disruption, and less risk.
16%
Average savings of direct infrastructure-related costs with Azure1
Migrate and save
Save on infrastructure and energy costs, improve operational efficiency, and future-proof your business when you migrate to Azure.
37%
Average three-year cost savings when you run equivalent workloads on Azure2
Optimise cloud spending
Realise savings and optimise your existing cloud investments by ensuring that your workloads are efficient and well architected.
54%
Potential total cost of ownership savings on Azure versus running on-premises3
Reinvest to accelerate growth
Invest savings to ensure business continuity, modernise apps and create resilient, innovative solutions with best-in-class Azure security, across cloud and hybrid environments.
Migrate
Save on energy and datacentre costs, and gain efficiencies across your environments when you migrate to Azure.
- Achieve up to 85 percent savings over standard pay-as-you-go rates when migrating Windows and SQL Server licences with the Azure Hybrid Benefit.
- Manage escalating energy costs while reducing your energy usage and carbon emissions.
- Save on IT infrastructure costs and improve operational efficiency, while maintaining agility.
Migration resources
- Optimise migration costs with Azure Migrate
- IDC white paper: The Business Value of Microsoft Azure for Windows and SQL Server Workloads
- IDC white paper: The Business Value of Migrating and Modernising with Azure
- Reduce the cost of running VMs in the cloud with the Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux
- Forrester study: The Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft Azure for SAP
Optimise
Realise savings and improve agility by increasing the efficiency of your cloud investments.
- Understand, monitor and forecast cloud costs by using Microsoft Cost Management – in one study, organisations saved up to 34 percent on Azure spending in the first year of use.
- Optimise savings automatically and reduce compute costs with the Azure savings plan for compute.
- Reduce costs, increase security, and improve reliability by using Azure Advisor to ensure that your workloads are well-architected.
- Manage your on-premises, edge, and multicloud environments more efficiently by implementing Azure Arc.
Optimisation resources
- Forrester study: The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Azure Cost Management And Billing
- Get recommendations to optimise your workloads with an Azure Well-Architected Review
- Optimise your technical solutions and cost structure with cloud economics guidance
- Get discounted dev/test rates with Azure Dev/Test pricing
- Forrester study: Forrester Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Azure Arc for Security and Governance
Reinvest
Become more resilient and drive innovation in your business by reinvesting your savings.
- Minimise downtime and data loss by securing your hybrid and multi-cloud environments, focusing on back up and data recovery.
- Achieve a 93 percent reduction4 in unplanned downtime with Azure Site Recovery and Azure Back up.
- Drive growth and modernise your applications – using the developer skills your organisation already has – with Azure AI services and Azure App Service.
- Develop sustainable, innovative solutions to reduce your carbon footprint and create new business value.
See how customers achieved more with less on Azure
ASOS
Kristina Moln-Page, Head of Finance, ASOS"I see cloud economics as our route of opportunity. We spend a lot of money in the cloud, so it's one of those things that has a huge impact. Our cloud cost optimization has already saved us 25 to 40 percent."
Fujitsu
Christian Walter, Head of Web and Collaboration, Fujitsu"By migrating to Azure, we have more scalability, flexibility, and efficiency, along with reduced upgrade-related costs for our online presence, than when we kept it in on-premises datacenters."
H&R Block
Paul Clark, Director of Cloud, H&R Block"Our monthly spend year-over-year is nearly flat, while we now have approximately 30 percent more of our total compute in the cloud. Thanks to our partnership with Microsoft, our team has learned valuable techniques and strategies to continue optimizing our spend."
O2 Czech Republic
Martin Kozisek, Transformation Manager, O2 Czech Republic"When we decided which workloads to modernize and move to Azure, we had a requirement that we would save 30 percent of total cost of ownership over five years. That's true of everything we've moved to Azure so far."
NBA
Charlie Rohlf, Associate Vice President, Stats Technology Product Development, National Basketball Association"We've always been sitting on a lot of data, but we needed Azure and AI to unlock its potential and find the interesting nuggets in those billions of data points."
Cemex
Juan Vazquez, IT Architect, CEMEX"By moving our SAP landscape to Azure and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, we've significantly improved performance between 40 and 70 percent for our migrated SAP applications."
