This U.S.-based consumer services company is a fast-growing provider in the construction space, serving residential customers across a broad national footprint with foundation repair, basement waterproofing, crawl space repair, and related services.
Bluewave assessed the company’s cloud environment and identified over $39,000 in Azure and Microsoft 365 savings opportunities along with additional governance and scheduling improvements designed to preserve and extend savings over time.
Industry: Construction
Need: Cloud waste reduction and idle resource optimization
Constraint: Limited visibility into cloud environment
Bluewave Role: Assess cloud environment, advise on best next steps, and develop a phased cloud optimization roadmap
The client’s Azure and Microsoft 365 environment showed signs of cost sprawl, including powered-off virtual machines and managed disks that were still billing, observability settings that created avoidable spend, and license management issues tied to disabled users and overlapping assignments.
They need to uncover savings and reduce waste in a way that also improved control. That meant validating ownership, sequencing remediation carefully, and putting stronger governance in place so cloud waste would be less likely to rebuild over time.
Bluewave conducted a thorough Cloud Assessment and designed a structured cloud cost optimization plan to reduce recurring waste without increasing operational risk. The team started with low-risk cleanup, then moved into compute stabilization, stronger governance, and longer-term controls that would support more disciplined cloud management over time.
“Bluewave helped us get specific about where cloud waste was sitting and what we could address safely first.”
Bluewave helped the client move from reactive cleanup toward a more disciplined cloud cost management model grounded in sequencing, governance, and operational follow-through. By prioritizing low-risk remediation first and pairing savings identification with stronger visibility and controls, Bluewave created a clearer path to reducing recurring spend across both Azure and Microsoft 365.
$10,007/month identified in zombie VM and disk savings.
$7,620.30/month identified in disabled-user M365 license savings.
$22,080.96/month identified in overlapping-license M365 savings.
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