Azure cost optimisation
Reduce Azure costs without sacrificing performance or governance.
Emnode finds oversized resources and unnecessary cloud costs across your Azure environment, monitors spend growth and keeps optimisation accountable. Connect Azure in minutes and see your first savings opportunities today.
Read-only managed identity · UK-hosted · Set up in minutes · No card needed until the trial ends
Setup
Takes minutes
A guided, read-only managed identity.
Price
From £79/mo
Unlimited users and cloud accounts.
Access
Read-only
No changes to your infrastructure.
Free trial
14 days
No card needed until it ends.
The problem
Azure spend grows subscription by subscription. Visibility doesn't.
Between multiple subscriptions, resource groups and teams deploying independently, Azure spend management becomes fragmented, and manual reporting can't keep up.
Fragmented visibility. Spend is scattered across subscriptions and resource groups; no one sees the whole picture.
Oversized VMs and disks. Resources provisioned generously "to be safe" keep billing at full rate month after month.
Manual reporting burns hours. Exporting cost data into spreadsheets every month, with no ownership or follow-through.
Governance pressure. Finance wants control and forecasts; engineering wants freedom to ship. The tool that could settle it sits inside Azure, behind a login finance doesn't have.
What you can cut
Your Azure waste, ranked by what it costs you.
Every opportunity grouped by type with the monthly saving against each — underutilised virtual machines, unattached managed disks, idle App Service plans, oversized SQL databases — so the biggest wins are obvious before anyone opens a ticket.
What's driving your Azure bill
Twelve months of Azure spend, and what moved it.
Every month broken out by category against the forecast band, then the Azure services that moved the bill priced individually.
Where your Azure spend sits
Every Azure subscription, one picture.
Spend across your whole Azure estate, sliced by category, by service and by subscription, so the biggest movers surface first.
When something changes
Spend running outside its own baseline, flagged.
Anomaly detection watches daily cost against each account's normal range and raises what doesn't fit, so an unexpected increase surfaces while you can still do something about it.
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What you get out of it
Identified, actioned, verified — and what it's worth.
Every saving tracked from the moment it's found to the moment it shows up on the bill, with the value at each stage and the conversion between them.
Savings you can prove
Verified, with a name against each one.
Every closed recommendation with the person who owned it and what it was worth per month, verified against the bill rather than estimated.
Connect Azure in minutes. Savings visible in your first session.
Connect
Deploy a read-only managed identity with our guided setup. No agents, no infrastructure changes.
See
Waste, anomalies and reservation gaps surface immediately, ranked by value.
Act
Assign owners, action the biggest savings first and track each one to completion.
Repeat
Monthly reviews catch new waste as your Azure estate grows and changes.
Multi-cloud ready
Running AWS too? One platform covers both.
Most Azure teams also run workloads on AWS. Emnode gives you one view of cost, compliance and reliability across both clouds, so you're not stitching together two sets of native tools. See the AWS cost optimisation page for the AWS side.
One dashboard, both clouds
Azure and AWS spend, savings and risks side by side.
Consistent governance
The same review cadence, ownership model and savings tracking everywhere.
Finance-friendly reporting
Budgets, forecasts and verified savings across the whole cloud estate.
No extra headcount
Multi-cloud FinOps without hiring a dedicated specialist.
Azure cost questions, answered.
How do I reduce Azure costs without impacting performance?
Start with waste that has no performance impact at all: deallocated VMs still incurring disk charges, unattached managed disks, idle public IPs and oversized VMs running far below capacity. Emnode identifies these automatically, ranks them by monthly saving and tracks each action to completion.
How does Emnode connect to Azure?
Emnode connects through a read-only managed identity. Read-only. Emnode does not modify your infrastructure. It reads your billing, usage, compliance, backup and monitoring data, then recommends. You decide and act.
Does Emnode replace Azure Cost Management?
Emnode builds on top of what Azure's native tooling reports. Where Azure Cost Management shows spend, Emnode adds ranked savings recommendations, anomaly alerts, ownership and action tracking, plus compliance and reliability insights, and covers AWS in the same platform if you run both clouds.
Does Emnode help with Azure Reservations and Savings Plans?
Yes. Emnode analyses your usage patterns and highlights where Azure Reservations or Savings Plans would reduce your bill, and where existing commitments are underutilised.
How long does Azure setup take?
It takes minutes with the guided setup. Your first Azure savings opportunities are typically visible in the first session.
What happens when the free trial ends?
You trial the plan you pick for 14 days, with no card needed until it ends. If you don't subscribe, your account drops to the Free tier — an open-ended high-level view across cost, compliance, reliability and monitoring — and you can upgrade whenever you're ready. No surprise charges, and you can disconnect your cloud accounts at any time.
Take back control of your Azure spend.
Connect Azure in minutes and see your waste, anomalies and savings opportunities today. Free for 14 days, read-only, no card to start.
From £79/month, unlimited users and unlimited cloud accounts. Free tier available. See full pricing →
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